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re: Yale to remove carving with gun pointed at Native American

Posted on 8/22/17 at 3:03 pm to
Posted by FooManChoo
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Posted on 8/22/17 at 3:03 pm to
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Yeah, people are just keen on letting take their land. If I came to your house uninvited and set up shop how would that go?
A lot of the Indian tribes were nomadic and migrated from settlement to settlement. Also, they didn't have much of a concept of land ownership as they thought the earth did not belong to the people.

On top of that, many viewed the mere presence of the white people as a threat, even the ones who were settled peacefully. There were many raids on white settlements by the Indians where many people were massacred. Perhaps we need more of those types of monuments to remember our ancestors who lost their lives to red aggression.
This post was edited on 8/22/17 at 3:27 pm
Posted by themunch
Earth. maybe
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Posted on 8/22/17 at 3:09 pm to
Posted by Dale51
Member since Oct 2016
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Posted on 8/22/17 at 3:12 pm to
That^. The popular concept of the "Nobel Savage" is a bunch of Rousseauian bullshite.
Posted by skrayper
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 8/22/17 at 3:34 pm to
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On top of that, many viewed the mere presence of the white people as a threat, even the ones who were settled peacefully. There were many raids on white settlements by the Indians where many people were massacred. Perhaps we need more of those types of monuments to remember our ancestors who lost their lives to red aggression.


To be fair, white people ended up being the death of 93% of Native Americans - and barely any of that was from a shot being fired.

It's not exactly the Europeans' fault though - the diseases they carried were unknown to them. They had no idea they would devastate the native population just by showing up.
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