re: AP: Native Americans mark Thanksgiving with day of mourning

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They should hire one to help them build a bridge so they can get over it.

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I live half the year on my farm in southeast Oklahoma. There are Indians everywhere and not a single one is mourning today.

screw them... they weren't going to do anything with the resources.

Up to 95% of the indigenous population of North and South America were rapidly wiped out when the Europeans arrived. However, armed conquest was not the main reason for the radical decimation of the first peoples on the continents.

It was smallpox that killed most of them, not war. The European invaders didn't even know why so many indigenous people were dying. At first, at least.

They eventually caught on in some areas and used the disease to their advantage but it was mostly the natural spread of smallpox in vulnerable populations that was responsible for the apocalypse. Estimates as high as 20 million people in the Americas died as a result of the inadvertent introduction of smallpox into the Western Hemisphere.

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Indian Wars were at an end by the late-1880s, well outside living memory. Instead of mourning what was and settling for a second rate life style as a result, how about you join the 21st Century and move forward with the rest of us? 

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You do realize similar arguments could be made about the Confederacy in the Civil War?

Hey man...it's been 398 years since the landing at Plymouth Rock. Get over it already

Right. It is a game of thrones!

It’s THANKS.....GIVING. Be thankful for what you have instead of bitching about some distant event.