Hey, history buffs, or historians in the buff as the case may be. After a brief detour into the novelistic sludge of America's Greatest Artist, we're back to our American History textbooks for the Christian school and homeschooling market. This week, once again, we've got a real contrast: someone seems to have let a real historian write the section on westward expansion in our 11th/12th-grade text from Bob Jones University Press,
In Canada, during WWI, the group with the highest percentage of voluntary enlistment in the army was the First Nations. This after being royally screwed over. The Legion with the largest membership is on the Kahnesetake Mohawk Reserve outside Montreal.
There was never a treaty with the original occupants of this continent that was not broken by the white/European/Christian invaders. You can rightly argue that the same treatment occurred whenever and wherever the &#039;explorers&#039; discovered land that had the &#039;other&#039; living on lands that offered riches to be hand by subjugation. To claim that First Americans were paid for their lands reveals not just ignorance of the matter but wholehearted acceptance of the original idea, that the savages didn&#039;t deserve the lands they claimed and were justly destined for civilizing. If there an be any humor to this legacy it may be found in Firesign Theatre&#039;s <i>Temporarily Humboldt County</i>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNqlhPFc4Y">http://www.youtube.com/watc... Transcript: <a href="http://firezine.net/faq/fst..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://firezine.net/faq/fst-humboldt.html">http://firezine.net/faq/fst...
I thought I might be the only one having issues. I was getting a malware alert on HNTP and therefore Wonkette. HNTP was on a bunch of malware blacklists.
You know, it was so nice when we didn&rsquo;t <strike>know</strike> <u>care</u> what our government was doing to native peoples and other nations in general.
By the way, this CBC documentary is excellent: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/andthewin..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.cbc.ca/andthewinneris/2013/09/19/trail...">http://www.cbc.ca/andthewin...
In Canada, during WWI, the group with the highest percentage of voluntary enlistment in the army was the First Nations. This after being royally screwed over. The Legion with the largest membership is on the Kahnesetake Mohawk Reserve outside Montreal.
Yeah, I was a little selective. The list of rights the right doesn&#039;t like is quite long.
There was never a treaty with the original occupants of this continent that was not broken by the white/European/Christian invaders. You can rightly argue that the same treatment occurred whenever and wherever the &#039;explorers&#039; discovered land that had the &#039;other&#039; living on lands that offered riches to be hand by subjugation. To claim that First Americans were paid for their lands reveals not just ignorance of the matter but wholehearted acceptance of the original idea, that the savages didn&#039;t deserve the lands they claimed and were justly destined for civilizing. If there an be any humor to this legacy it may be found in Firesign Theatre&#039;s <i>Temporarily Humboldt County</i>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNqlhPFc4Y">http://www.youtube.com/watc... Transcript: <a href="http://firezine.net/faq/fst..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://firezine.net/faq/fst-humboldt.html">http://firezine.net/faq/fst...
I&#039;ll go in the kitchen and make you a sammich, sir.
While you are accepting Jesus, have a blanket.
I thought I might be the only one having issues. I was getting a malware alert on HNTP and therefore Wonkette. HNTP was on a bunch of malware blacklists.
&quot;Allowing for rest on Sundays&quot;
WTF? If an Indian didn&#039;t convert, did they have some way of not &quot;allowing&quot; him to rest?
Evidently, the greedy liquor sellers declined to encourage drunkenness among those who took up farming. Mighty white of them!
They also think everyone is as ignornant as they are.
Booze, drugs . . . and crab legs!
Exactly as the Illuminati planned.
You know, it was so nice when we didn&rsquo;t <strike>know</strike> <u>care</u> what our government was doing to native peoples and other nations in general.
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I seem to recall a certain Texas gubnator with a belief that spirit mumbo-jumbo would make Texas immune to drought.
For an allegedly intelligent species, humans are awfully slow to learn.
I&#039;m glad to see someone finally identifying the problem.
Funny; that&#039;s what I love about xkcd. I only get the joke on my own about half the time.