re: Native American flips the bird to mt. Rushmore

Native Americans definitely not innocent.

Even today the corruption, murder, among many other things is rampant in their communities. It’s easy to blame others. At one point we were all part of a tribe who were defeated if you go back far enough. Get over it pick your self up and stop feeling sorry for yourselves.

Maybe in their native custom, that’s a show of appreciation and acceptance towards their superiors.

Tell them to quit appropriating our hand signals. I don't use their smoke signals

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Tell them to quit appropriating our hand signals. I don't use their smoke signals

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Hey speak for yourself

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Native Americans definitely not innocent.

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White women should be grateful that white men don't induce labor in their pregnant women the way Indians did.

Tbf, living in teepees is probably better than the current situation on reservations.

I guess I’d be pissed too if ‘my people’ had gotten their asses handed to them, beaten like a rented mule, all while being utterly dumbfounded and amazed by technologies of things like, say, the wheel…

LINK

Mr. Menasco had previously discovered the Indians were raiding, so he was attempting to carry his daughter and her children to a place of safety. When the Indians appeared, he was killed, and Mrs. Shegog, her children, and the African boy made prisoners. After going a short distance, Mrs. Shegog's baby began to cry, and this so exasperated the warring savages, they took it by the heels and in the presence of the mother, beat out the baby's brains against a tree.

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And what’s wrong with living in a teepee?

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Do you live in one? No?

Then you tell me.

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Do you think this “civilized” world we have now that has destroyed the very planet we live on is better than the world natives lived in?

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Baylor Study

From the study:

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"These are two very important findings," said Gary Stinchcomb, a Baylor doctoral candidate who conducted the study. "The findings conclusively demonstrate that Native Americans in eastern North America impacted their environment well before the arrival of Europeans. Through their agricultural practices, Native Americans increased soil erosion and sediment yields to the Delaware River basin."

The Baylor researchers found that prehistoric people decreased forest cover to reorient their settlements and intensify corn production. They also contributed to increased sedimentation in valley bottoms about 700 to 1,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. The findings suggest that prehistoric land use was the initial cause of increased sedimentation in the valley bottoms, and sedimentation was later amplified by wetter and stormier conditions.

To conduct the study, the Baylor researchers took samples along the Delaware River Valley. Landforms were mapped based on relative elevations to Delaware River base flow and archaeological excavations assessed the presence of human habitation. The Baylor researchers then used a site-specific geoarchaeological approach and a regional synthesis of previous research to test the hypothesis that the indigenous population had a widespread impact on terrestrial sedimentation in eastern North America.

"This study provides some of the most significant evidence yet that Native Americans impacted the land to a much greater degree than previously thought," said Dr. Steve Driese, professor and chair of Baylor's department of geology, College of Arts and Sciences, who co-authored the study. "It confirms that Native American populations had widespread effects on sedimentation."

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Turns out they didn't worship the environment either.