“We are sending a signal across the nation and to the global community that we make these changes in the spirit of truth-telling,” Council Member Alondra Cano said ahead of the Council meeting.
“Now that we have established Indigenous People's Day, every child -- whether that child is native or whether that child is not -- will learn the truth about where America really comes from," added U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison.
Originally Posted by NinerDoug:
They didn't have "countries" in the European sense. They had tribes.
So the Pawnee sold out the Cheyenne and Arapahoe. Doesn't make them traitors. The basic unit to which they had loyalty was the tribe. Tribes warred with each other all the time.
We kicked all their no-fighting asses, and now we own it all... :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Loneiguana:
Nor is really in the same context as traitors to your country over the ability to own others as slaves.
Nor is recognizing native Americans with this day honoring someone who did something like fight their countrymen for the right to own another human as a slave.
Really, the whole "point" fails multiple ways.
The Cherokee owned slaves and fought with the confederacy dipshit [Reply]
Originally Posted by F150:
You have confirmed that you have zero understanding of the tribes and tribal culture. The White man discovered very early that one tribe would sell out another to curru favor and to see the enemy wiped out by the long guns.
Stay out of threads that expose you as a fraud.
Just like the white man has done with other white tribes, clans, kingdoms and nations.
No race is exempt from crimes committed against their fellow man. Time to end this charade. Especially, when we see Americans doing it to one another right now, and the globalists-UN is doing inside America. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BucEyedPea:
Just like the white man has done with other white tribes, clans, kingdoms and nations.
No race is exempt from crimes committed against their fellow man. Time to end this charade. Especially, when we see Americans doing it to one another right now, and the globalists-UN is doing inside America.
I.E. the Irish Potato Famine and the Highland Clearances.
