And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
So, just before the Wright Brothers, Native Americans have their version of advance civ. Not wanting to be a hater, but America is awesome because of the settler nation.
Such is progress over millenia. Some adjust and do well and some don't. This century is the first where there's a living to be made bleating about how unfair it all was and some in my country (not the US) look back fondly at the days of cannibalism, infanticide and short lifespans. Stupid is as stupid does.
Their barbarity towards each other never allowed them to reach the Iron Age. They were Stone Age savages whose culture depended on murdering other tribes to exist. Nothing to celebrate. fjf0351
Google "Unworthy History". Books that don't fit today's rewriting of early American history. Were it not for my grandmother being adopted, she could easily been slaughtered along with the rest of her tribe, only because civilized Englishmen took pity on her as a child, she lived well into her 90's.
Married a self-taught, self-made man & lived a wonderful, peaceful life.
Stone-Age tribes have rarely co-existed well with tech-track western civ in the last 10,000 years. Stone-Age cultures transitioned into tech-track or were destroyed and the settlers knew it well. Root Hog or Die [c. early 1800]
So, just before the Wright Brothers, Native Americans have their version of advance civ. Not wanting to be a hater, but America is awesome because of the settler nation.
ReplyDeleteAwesome for us, not so much for them.
DeleteSuch is progress over millenia. Some adjust and do well and some don't. This century is the first where there's a living to be made bleating about how unfair it all was and some in my country (not the US) look back fondly at the days of cannibalism, infanticide and short lifespans. Stupid is as stupid does.
DeleteTheir barbarity towards each other never allowed them to reach the Iron Age. They were Stone Age savages whose culture depended on murdering other tribes to exist.
DeleteNothing to celebrate.
fjf0351
Google "Unworthy History". Books that don't fit today's rewriting of early American history. Were it not for my grandmother being adopted, she could easily been slaughtered along with the rest of her tribe, only because civilized Englishmen took pity on her as a child, she lived well into her 90's.
DeleteMarried a self-taught, self-made man & lived a wonderful, peaceful life.
Black Weasel? I don't see Al Sharpton in this photo-
ReplyDeleteWeasels take offense at comparison to Sharpton
DeleteStone-Age tribes have rarely co-existed well with tech-track western civ in the last 10,000 years. Stone-Age cultures transitioned into tech-track or were destroyed and the settlers knew it well.
ReplyDeleteRoot Hog or Die [c. early 1800]
No relation of mine, despite the name. My distant Indian relatives were Ojibwa.
ReplyDelete