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Would the Native Americans have screwed up as royally?

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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 10:16:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hotsacks', 'T')he world's first aboriginal university has opened in Regina,Saskatchewan.You can't teach unless you are native.No white men allowed.


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Re: The American Military

Unread postby hotsacks » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 17:51:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ALBY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hotsacks', 'T')he world's first aboriginal university has opened in Regina,Saskatchewan.You can't teach unless you are native.No white men allowed.


:roll: racist.


Understandably racist.Mercifully racist.Justly racist.
At least the deaths of the first millions of aboriginals was quick.The cultural genocide that followed has not been so kind.First the Indian had to swallow the religious pill and see himself a lost soul.Then he had to stand for the pity and fantasy of the 'gentle folk'.Then he got the scholarly poke in the ribs that reduced him to an atom in a sea of atoms.Now he's got the New Agers on his back with their herbs and dream catchers and shaman worship.His culture has been pricked at and prodded by generation after generation of analytical Euros who,no matter how many letters they put after their names, just don't get it.There is no common thread between the tribal mind and the technological.There is no common thread between the technological mind and nature.That's why we're in the mess we're in.
The aboriginal university will be the first opportunity indigenous people have had to go over their own history,to articulate and argue the truths and lies that history reveals about them as a distinct people.There will undoubtedly be great focus on how such a vital civilzation degenerated into today's sorry spectacle.There will be no whites teaching their version of the tragedy.It will be Indians teaching Indians the inexorable facts of human 'progress'.
You say you don't want to see your daughter in a burkah.You didn't really mind that other people were forced into strange cultural practises so that you might have the pleasures of freedom.-The only claim you have to the ground on which you stand is by force of arms.If you believe in the rule of law,that ground is stolen property.You are either proud of the fruits of genocide,and stand to defend them;or you are ethically and legally bound to admit your complicity in forcing the burkah on others,and stand ready to pay.
You asked how I was to know whether or not you were native.
A native would have known there are 6 nations in the Iroquois Confederacy,not 7.
Injun psy-ops.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 18:19:51

injun psyops. please. :roll:

silly me, i thought you were referring to the Kahnawake and the seven nations revervation in canada.

and it's five nations brother, the name of the oneida is not spoken at the council fire by real iroquois. but then again, don't take my word for it, im full of chit.

My family has a bunch of houses in upstate NY on land won by the oneida in their land claim. I'll get clear title when the Turningstone casino gets slots. So, pardon me if I think my people have paid.

BTW, My daughter is five and she will never wear a burhka because she'll have a Glock.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby holmes » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 18:21:18

The iroquois were the greatest empire ever in all history. They would have lasted indefinately with their sustainable ways. if it wasnt for disease and addiction to steel. They were huge bodied and in nature larger bodied organism have lower rates of reproduction combined with there earth centered culture u had a nation that would have lasted long long time. They manged the land as agrocery store. a self sustaining factory. They also were master farmers. They however were brutal warriors. you have to be brutal or else u end up like all soft empires overrun with overbreeding, loose loins and usurpations. They would kill u in a wink of the eye. Go to the nys museaum up in Albany.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby hotsacks » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 18:31:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ALBY', 'i')njun psyops. please. :roll:

silly me, i thought you were referring to the Kahnawake and the seven nations revervation in canada.

and it's five nations brother, the name of the oneida is not spoken at the council fire by real iroquois. but then again, don't take my word for it, im full of chit.

My family has a bunch of houses in upstate NY on land won by the oneida in their land claim. I'll get clear title when the Turningstone casino gets slots. So, pardon me if I think my people have paid.

BTW, My daughter is five and she will never wear a burhka because she'll have a Glock.


Well Alby,I'll have to take my moccasin out of my mouth here and mumble apologies.
So much for Injun psy ops.No wonder we lost.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby holmes » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 18:43:21

Lets remember too that the WASPS were not the great killer of the indians. The spanish and their diseases were. This is the biggest misconcepetion from the bleeding hearts. By the time wasps even got to the east coast the Indian tribes were decimated. Did u know that there were only around 300,000 left in the entire US when either the indian wars started or when the pilgrims came. Im not sure which one but either way they were done before the wasps even got here. they jsut mopped up. If the indians were at full strnght they would have destroyed the wasps. The Iroquois really were the only ones who could have crushed us. they ahd that killer instinct where it was not just counting coup like the plains indians. They were not nice in battle. It was war not just a cultural game. when they died out that reallly ended the indian threat. By the time crazy horse ended custers time they were learning how to whip the US army and there advanced technology but there was not enough of them. They also fought a different way. it was not about exterminating the enemy. It was part of their pageantry. without their enemy they werent complete. They also didnt breed like rats and create situations where u had to exterminate everyone in order for them to have resources. there was plenty to go around and then some. Today the breeding rates are so high that we have to destroy everyhting inorder to sequester there energy sources. There really is becoming no room for anything else but humans.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 19:27:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hotsacks', 'W')ell Alby,I'll have to take my moccasin out of my mouth here and mumble apologies. So much for Injun psy ops.No wonder we lost.


well at least you have a sense of humor.

i took the time to honor the haudensaunee by studying their history.

some of the half baked chit i read from the kevin costner types makes my eyes bleed.

most americans do not know that without the oneida dragging corn down to valley forge, there would be no united states. samuel kirkland sweet talked them into siding with the colonials while the rest of the confederacy remained loyal to their british fathers.

the iroquois did not die out of natural causes. in the late summer and fall of 1779 george washington sent colonel john sullivan into the iroquois homeland and destroyed their castles and villages and killed the women and children. they were led by oneida scouts.

it's all been papered over by apologists and do gooders, but thats the history. the oneida did it. i never tire of reminding those facking casino indians of it whenever i get the chance.

for their bloody treachery, the oneida were rewarded by the federal governement with a treaty protecting their sovereign lands in perpetuity. the great state of NY abrogated that treaty before the inlk was dry and countless times thereafter. lucky for the oneida some old sachem kept a box of papers and they won their land claim in the supreme court in 1978.

today they make ungodly amounts of money from their casino, they own every gas station in central NY and have accumulated vast tracts of land that are off the tax rolls, alienating the local rustbelt leftovers in the area. they will not share with the wisonson oneida who could really use the help and do nothing for their fellow haudensaunee, like the onondoga, who frankly, could use the help even more.

sorry to say, that is the ugly truth of it.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 19:53:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'D')id u know that there were only around 300,000 left in the entire US when either the indian wars started or when the pilgrims came


That is probably a reasonable estimate for when the Indian wars began in the 1860's. The population in the Continental US pre-contact is estimated at 10,000,000. It is quite true that the Atlantic Coastal populations took a big hit from diseases introduced by migratory traders before the Mayflower. By some estimates 50 to 75 percent of the population of the Atlantic coastal peoples had been killed. That still would have left over 9 million nationwide. To claim that the Pilgrims were "just mopping up" is nothing more than bold faced prevarication. The Spanish definitely created an immense amount of misery in Mexico and Central and South America. Their victims probably number in the hundreds of millions, but the Spanish made only minor incursions into the Continental US. It was primarily English colonists along with some French, Dutch, and others, acting on the Spanish model, that created wholesale destruction for the Indians here.

Again...the Iroquois were no doubt harsh in their interactions with other tribes on occasion. Two things bear noting however. By the time whites showed up the tribes were being pushed off their traditional lands and were being brought into conflict with eachother for the very necessities of life. People were starving to death. The level of conflict between tribes was increased immensly by this. It's rather like saying the Jews are inately brutal because they were witnessed to fight viciously over a scrap of bread at Aushwitz. Secondly if the Indians were spending so much time marauding around killing eachother, why were there so many of them? Under the gentle ministrations of the kind English protestants their populations plumetted, and the effects of disease don't come close to explaining all those deaths.

The truth is that the noble and persecuted Pilgrims were blood thirsty killers that would have made the average SS Storm Trooper blush. The reason they were persona non-grata in Britan was because Cromwell (a prominent Puritan leader) had just finished his reign of terror over there. He is probably more reviled in Ireland today than any other historical figure except maybe Thatcher. So they got booted out of Britan and came over here and did the same thing.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 20:31:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'T')he truth is that the noble and persecuted Pilgrims were blood thirsty killers that would have made the average SS Storm Trooper blush..


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Re: The American Military

Unread postby hotsacks » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 20:56:03

Yes,it bothers me that so much attention is paid to the Jewish Holocaust,and next to none to the Indian 300 Year Slaughter in which more have died and more have suffered over a longer period of time.
The Iroquois were one of the native groups that welcomed the white settlers.They brought them corn,squash,beans,tobacco.They brought game into settlements where the inhabitants would have starved otherwise.Many,many accounts of Indian hospitality to a race bred for treachery and violence.The Haida were the only indigenous group with the good sense to attack them on sight. Theirs is a complex society,like the Iroquois.Why the difference in the Haudusanee attitude?
As for the Iroquois habits of war,they were no different than those of the other woodland tribes.With their Dutch guns,they had far more opportunity to practise the arts of torture on captives.It was a matter of degree,not of kind.
There's a good argument that,without the Iroquois advantage,the English would have been routed by the French.And the history of the world would have been...?
Didn't matter for the Six Nations,however.Screwed either way,they retreated to their reservations to learn the fine arts of steel walking,tobacco smuggling and casino management.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 21:55:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hotsacks', 'W')hy the difference in the Haudusanee attitude.


because they were imperalists themselves. at the zenith of iroquois power they numbered less than 20,000. it was hard to keep the skirts on tribes they conquered and demanded tribute from. they needed english cooperation, english presents and muskets. they controlled most of the tribes from the ohio valley north to the western great lakes and south to the cherokee lands in georgia. no small feat for a few thousand people.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby Daryl » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 08:38:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', ' ')That is probably a reasonable estimate for when the Indian wars began in the 1860's. The population in the Continental US pre-contact is estimated at 10,000,000. It is quite true that the Atlantic Coastal populations took a big hit from diseases introduced by migratory traders before the Mayflower. By some estimates 50 to 75 percent of the population of the Atlantic coastal peoples had been killed. That still would have left over 9 million nationwide.


I don't know alot about this subject, but it was addressed with authority in Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, which was hardly sympathetic to the West. The germs traveled far inland way ahead of the Europeans, carried by the Indians themselves. The germs were decimating the inland populations in some cases centuries before the first Europeans finally arrived. I think he estimates that over 90% of the indigineous people of the Americas were killed by disease.

As far as American mythology about how great the Founding Fathers were, that's typical of healthy nations indoctrinating their public and children to have a positive image of the country they live in and have to defend occasionally. I'm sure the Iroquois told their children myths about their ancestors, which were also idealized fantasies. America is in decay now. The forces of decay are actively debunking our national mythologies.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby threadbear » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 14:05:24

Looks like some kind of consensus was reached on this thread. Good thing, I thought I was going to have to smudge the thread and drag out my scream catcher.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 14:43:49

I'd love SPG to cull out the indian history stuff and start a thread on that. not sure it is peak oil related, but iroquois history is a passion of mine and it's hard to find anyone who knows anything, much less cares. hotsacks seems like a pretty knowledgable individual.

someone else will need to quote me an float this idea, im pretty sure im on her ignore list. :P
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 14:45:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daryl', 'T')he germs traveled far inland way ahead of the Europeans, carried by the Indians themselves. The germs were decimating the inland populations in some cases centuries before the first Europeans finally arrived. I think he estimates that over 90% of the indigineous people of the Americas were killed by disease.


I would basically agree with everything you just said. The 90% figure seems a bit high, but that's probably debatable.

The infectious disease arguement makes me nervous for this reason. There are Nazi appologists that will tell you that Hitler wasn't responsible for killing most of the Jews that died in the concentration camps, because, in fact most of those people who died in the camps didn't die from cyanide showers or SS machine guns. They died from disease. It shouldn't suprise anyone that if you displace people from their homes and push them into overcrowded conditions with starvation, no access to clean water, etc that disease will run rampant. The Dine were led on a 1000 mile forced march through the Southwest desert to Bosque Redondo. They were given no food and then were relegated to searching through the horse poop to try to find undigested pieces of corn to eat. If you cut people off from the basic necessities of life and they get diseases, you don't just get to throw up your hands and say "Not my fault." Under normal conditions the diseases of the Europeans wouldn't have spread so rapidly and wouldn't have been nearly as devestating. These were not normal conditions.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby hotsacks » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 14:51:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'L')ooks like some kind of consensus was reached on this thread. Good thing, I thought I was going to have to smudge the thread and drag out my scream catcher.

LOL. Yeah,we did the digital sweetgrass thing.Then I took a steam in my inflatable sweat lodge.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby Daryl » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 14:57:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daryl', 'T')he germs traveled far inland way ahead of the Europeans, carried by the Indians themselves. The germs were decimating the inland populations in some cases centuries before the first Europeans finally arrived. I think he estimates that over 90% of the indigineous people of the Americas were killed by disease.

I would basically agree with everything you just said. The 90% figure seems a bit high, but that's probably debatable. The infectious disease arguement makes me nervous for this reason. There are Nazi appologists that will tell you that Hitler wasn't responsible for killing most of the Jews that died in the concentration camps, because, in fact most of those people who died in the camps didn't die from cyanide showers or SS machine guns. They died from disease. It shouldn't suprise anyone that if you displace people from their homes and push them into overcrowded conditions with starvation, no access to clean water, etc that disease will run rampant. The Dine were led on a 1000 mile forced march through the Southwest desert to Bosque Redondo. They were given no food and then were relegated to searching through the horse poop to try to find undigested pieces of corn to eat. If you cut people off from the basic necessities of life and they get diseases, you don't just get to throw up your hands and say "Not my fault." Under normal conditions the diseases of the Europeans wouldn't have spread so rapidly and wouldn't have been nearly as devestating. These were not normal conditions.

You won't get any argument from me. Europeans invaded the Americas and wiped out the natives. If disease hadn't done it, it would have been accomplished in other ways. That seems pretty undisputable. At the same time, looking back on this event in isolation, many people nowadays will overromanticize the victims. They had their problems and faults before the Europeans came. We are all humans after all and pretty much all capable under various circumstances of doing very good and very bad things.
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 14:59:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ALBY', 'I')'d love SPG to cull out the indian history stuff and start a thread on that.

Your wish is my command. :P
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ALBY', 's')omeone else will need to quote me an float this idea, im pretty sure im on her ignore list. :P

Ohh puhlease! You're going to have to try a lot harder than that if you want to make my ignore list. Your arguements are half way logical and you haven't even screamed any expletives at me yet. :)
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Re: The American Military

Unread postby ALBY » Sat 07 Jan 2006, 15:12:16

Thanks !!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'a')nd you haven't even screamed any expletives at me yet. :)

because i know you are well armed (figuratively and literally) :lol:
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