Happy Columbus Day!!!

Columbus landing on American soil was a huge event in world history. We should all celebrate and be happy. Our lives would all be worse off without it.
 
Horns6721, I saw a Facebook post of one of my "friends" that called Trump's Columbus Day declaration as "evil!".

I wanted to comment, but I knew it wouldn't help anything. But such idiocy.
 
Monahorns said:
Horns6721, I saw a Facebook post of one of my "friends" that called Trump's Columbus Day declaration as "evil!".

I wanted to comment, but I knew it wouldn't help anything. But such idiocy.
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You should have replied it was too bad human sacrifice was ended by the white man until abortion was legalized.
 
Garmel said:
The Native Americans were far from peaceful.
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To borrow a term from H. I. McDonough, I'm not saying it was Ozzie and Harriet. It was implied above that it was like Mel Gibson's depiction of the Mayan culture and that was not fully representative either.
 
OUBubba said:
To borrow a term from H. I. McDonough, I'm not saying it was Ozzie and Harriet. It was implied above that it was like Mel Gibson's depiction of the Mayan culture and that was not fully representative either.
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Dude, many of the Central American cultures practiced human sacrifice.
 
Garmel said:
Dude, many of the Central American cultures practiced human sacrifice.
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The natives found in the eastern north american continent did not. Also, Salem witch trials. So, there's that. If we're going to praise people for finding this place cool. I think it's understood that Christopher Columbus wasn't that guy. Probably like crediting Switzer for the wishbone. Someone did it before him. He just got a lot of credit for doing it.
 
It wasn't "Apocolypto" here pre-1492.
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The Iroquois were very unique. Most of the tribes were in continual war and torture and rape of each other.

For the epitome of this read about the Commanches who were following in the footsteps of the tribes who did the same to them before.
 
2003TexasGrad said:
If not Columbus in 1492 it would have been some other European dude in 1495 or 1500. People are dumb.
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No, by then the natives would have invented paper, firearms, the wheel, the sail, written language, etc. Note how the left conveniently ignores this.
 
OUBubba said:
The natives found in the eastern north american continent did not. Also, Salem witch trials. So, there's that. If we're going to praise people for finding this place cool. I think it's understood that Christopher Columbus wasn't that guy. Probably like crediting Switzer for the wishbone. Someone did it before him. He just got a lot of credit for doing it.
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David Scheimann

Of all the North American Indian tribes, the seventeenth-century Iroquois are the most renowned for their cruelty towards other human beings. Scholars know that they ruthlessly tortured war prisoners and that they were cannibals; in the Algonquin tongue the word Mohawk actually means "flesh-eater." There is even a story that the Indians in neighboring Iroquois territory would flee their homes upon sight of just a small band of Mohawks. Ironically, the Iroquois were not alone in these practices. There is ample evidence that most, if not all, of the Indians of northeastern America engaged in cannibalism and torture—there is documentation of the Huron, Neutral, and Algonquin tribes each exhibiting the same behavior. This paper will examine these atrocities, search through several possible explanations, and ultimately reveal that the practices of cannibalism and torture in the Iroquois were actually related.
 
Cannibalism, torture, and sex slavery were all common in America Indian culture.

The Iroquios did create a federation though where they agreed to end the frequent war and theft. But that probably didn't affect how they treated tribes outside the federation.
 
Monahorns said:
Cannibalism, torture, and sex slavery were all common in America Indian culture.

The Iroquios did create a federation though where they agreed to end the frequent war and theft. But that probably didn't affect how they treated tribes outside the federation.
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That's not a fact that I find when I read up on the issue. But, hey, I'll just leave this to you experts.
 
bystander said:
Did you know some of the Native American tribes had black slaves?
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Yes. Some of my Creek ancestors had slaves. That was the custom at the time. It's a far cry from cannibalism. ****** direction this thread took.

One of my Creek ancestors fought Andrew Jackson. Another fought along side Jackson.
 
OUBubba said:
Yes. Some of my Creek ancestors had slaves. That was the custom at the time. It's a far cry from cannibalism. ****** direction this thread took.

One of my Creek ancestors fought Andrew Jackson. Another fought along side Jackson.
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****** direction? People were just trying to point out to you that the indians in the NE were not as peaceful and enlightened as you made them out to be.
 
Garmel said:
****** direction? People were just trying to point out to you that the indians in the NE were not as peaceful and enlightened as you made them out to be.
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I didn't claim them to be some peaceful populations. But someone implying that "Indians" were cannibals before being saved by the white man is like someone saying Ohioans were cannibals before agent Starling saved them from Dahmer.
 
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