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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:39 AM Original message |
Indians plan Plymouth, Mass. Thanksgiving protest |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. They have only themselves to blame |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. surely you jest |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. "They" weren't around in 1620. |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. is it true the Wampanoag tribe never fought and killed other native americans? nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. No, there were occasional territorial squabbles |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Not true. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Yep, That's true. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I never understood the way some people fetishize indians |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. You're right, it was technology. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Have you read "guns germs and steel" |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I have not but it sounds interesting. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. an indicator of that are the Plains Indians & their culture which sprang up w/the horses' arrival. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:52 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Yep. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. It wasn't my intention to portray them as noble savages |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. What if the Native Americans had been more resisent to European diseases? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. There are too many "what ifs" to consider |
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PuraVidaDreamin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. Geez, I live only 60 miles away from there |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. They have chosen the wrong day - Columbus Day should be the target. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. They've protested that one, too |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Columbus "sold" the New World partly by promoting the enslavement of natives. nt |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
5. Can't rightly blame them |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
7. If it werent for the European meddling the U.S would have been a 3rd world warzone |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
9. They have the protest every year. |
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floridablue (996 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
11. Shouldn't that be named |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. it's cool, you have permision to use that term |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Depends on who you're asking. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. They're taking it back |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. They should do this at the nearest Tribal Mega-Casino. |
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lies and propaganda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. what a shitty and rude comment. |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 03:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
36. I don't know how much work you do with tribal people and issues, but in my part of the country |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. You know that the vast majority of American Indians don't own casinos, right? nt |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. wow |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. Well, have at it. |
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Blue For You (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. Thanksgiving is the Plymouth Crock of holidays. |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
32. I volunteer to be the first of the pilgrim's spawn to be returned whence I came. |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-26-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Why havent you done that yet? n/t |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-27-09 02:53 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. 'Cause they won't take a cook with no money and no finalized college degree |
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