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Originally posted by Diogenes Of Pumpkintown:
There is a word which refers to what you are describing: NATIONALISM. It was invented in its modern form in EUROPE, and has achieved its worst extremes in history in EUROPE. So cut out the holier than thou crap.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is indeed a good book. No, there is no justifying how the Indians were treated. The story of the European invasion of the Americas and the treatment of the Indians by the Europeans (and later the Americans after the US became an independent country) is yet another shameful blot on the human race. It differs from many, many other similar events only in that it is one of the more recent in history.
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I agree with Diogenes of Pumkintown,
We can go back to the Mongols, Huns, or the Arians (sp?) that invaded and conquered europe. How about the Nubians that invaded Eygpt? or the Eyptians that invaded Nubia? What about the Cro-magnon (sp?) that conquered the Neanderthal? I'm not defending either side I'm just pointing out that almost everybody has been conquered in history. Are we going to keep on piss'n and moun'n about it? Isn't that what is going on in the Baulkins?
As for the American Indians being one with nature, give me a break. the ancestors of most of the southwestern tribes (the Anisai if I remeber correctly)
Distroyed their civilzation by over farming and over population. What about the Mississippians, the mound builders, their civilaztion was distroyed by in-fighting and over population. The newest evidence is that the first inhabitants of the western hemisphere where from Australia (sp?). When the asians crossed the land bridge they conquered their land from them earlier inhabitants. The above are simplificantions but are the gist of what happened. The point is that the American Indians are just like everybody else they put their pants on the same way, ONE LEG AT A TIME.
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