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Title: Us Should Return Stolen Land To Indian Tribes, Says United Nations
Source: GUARDIAN UK
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 ... s-stolen-land-indian-tribes-un
Published: May 4, 2012
Author: GUARDIAN UK
Post Date: 2012-05-04 20:03:22 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 29074
Comments: 86

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.

Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination".

"It's a racial discrimination that they feel is both systemic and also specific instances of ongoing discrimination that is felt at the individual level," he said. Anaya said racism extended from the broad relationship between federal or state governments and tribes down to local issues such as education.

"For example, with the treatment of children in schools both by their peers and by teachers as well as the educational system itself; the way native Americans and indigenous peoples are reflected in the school curriculum and teaching," he said.

"And discrimination in the sense of the invisibility of Native Americans in the country overall that often is reflected in the popular media. The idea that is often projected through the mainstream media and among public figures that indigenous peoples are either gone or as a group are insignificant or that they're out to get benefits in terms of handouts, or their communities and cultures are reduced to casinos, which are just flatly wrong."

Close to a million people live on the US's 310 Native American reservations. Some tribes have done well from a boom in casinos on reservations but most have not.

Anaya visited an Oglala Sioux reservation where the per capita income is around $7,000 a year, less than one-sixth of the national average, and life expectancy is about 50 years.

The two Sioux reservations in South Dakota – Rosebud and Pine Ridge – have some of the country's poorest living conditions, including mass unemployment and the highest suicide rate in the western hemisphere with an epidemic of teenagers killing themselves.

"You can see they're in a somewhat precarious situation in terms of their basic existence and the stability of their communities given that precarious land tenure situation. It's not like they have large fisheries as a resource base to sustain them. In basic economic terms it's a very difficult situation. You have upwards of 70% unemployment on the reservation and all kinds of social ills accompanying that. Very tough conditions," he said.

Anaya said Rosebud is an example where returning land taken by the US government could improve a tribe's fortunes as well as contribute to a "process of reconciliation".

"At Rosebud, that's a situation where indigenous people have seen over time encroachment on to their land and they've lost vast territories and there have been clear instances of broken treaty promises. It's undisputed that the Black Hills was guaranteed them by treaty and that treaty was just outright violated by the United States in the 1900s. That has been recognised by the United States supreme court," he said.

Anaya said he would reserve detailed recommendations on a plan for land restoration until he presents his final report to the UN human rights council in September.

"I'm talking about restoring to indigenous peoples what obviously they're entitled to and they have a legitimate claim to in a way that is not devisive but restorative. That's the idea behind reconciliation," he said.

But any such proposal is likely to meet stiff resistance in Congress similar to that which has previously greeted calls for the US government to pay reparations for slavery to African-American communities.

Anaya said he had received "exemplary cooperation" from the Obama administration but he declined to speculate on why no members of Congress would meet him.

"I typically meet with members of the national legislature on my country visits and I don't know the reason," he said.

Last month, the US justice and interior departments announced a $1 billion settlement over nearly 56 million acres of Indian land held in trust by Washington but exploited by commercial interests for timber, farming, mining and other uses with little benefit to the tribes.

The attorney general, Eric Holder, said the settlement "fairly and honourably resolves historical grievances over the accounting and management of tribal trust funds, trust lands and other non-monetary trust resources that, for far too long, have been a source of conflict between Indian tribes and the United States."

But Anaya said that was only a step in the right direction.

"These are important steps but we're talking about mismanagement by the government of assets that were left to indigenous peoples," he said. "This money for the insults on top of the injury. It's not money for the initial problem itself, which is the taking of vast territories. This is very important and I think the administration should be commended for moving forward to settle these claims but there are these deeper issues that need to be addressed."

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#34. To: Ferret Mike (#21)

Yet greedy white farmers

Evil white bastards!

All us white folks should kill ourselves!

That's race pimping 101, Mike.

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:13:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: We The People (#33)

Does the entire planet give their land back to the original inhabitants, or just the US?

This entire argument is simply a tool to further divide America. Humans owned the land before, humans own it now. Race and/or culture only matters to the race and culture pimps.

Should the shia muslims give Iraq back to the sunni muslims? And who controlled it before the sunni's? Does it go back to the sunni's or whomever controlled it before them?

The entire argument is ridiculous.

Very good, sound points, but the terminally STUPID will continue to reject it, even though they have NO sound solutions of their own.

"A friend will calm you down when you are angry, but a best friend will skip beside you with a baseball bat singing, "someone's gonna get it"

Murron  posted on  2012-05-05   11:14:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: We The People, Ferret Mike (#34)

"Yet greedy white farmers"

"Evil white bastards! All us white folks should kill ourselves!"

LOL! I think you're right, WTP, we should just kill ourselves...MIKE, you go first since you seem to feel worse than most of us, I promise, we'll follow you.....sarc/off

"A friend will calm you down when you are angry, but a best friend will skip beside you with a baseball bat singing, "someone's gonna get it"

Murron  posted on  2012-05-05   11:17:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Ferret Mike (#21)

your ignorance of these people and the details and circumstances of their exile from their lands

Here's another monkey wrench in your race pimping spokes...

One of the fastest growing demographic groups in the United States is Hispanics. This is a relatively NEW phenomena.

Will the brown people have to give the land back to us white people before we can give it back to the red people?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:24:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: We The People (#37)

Will the brown people have to give the land back to us white people before we can give it back to the red people?

Naaah... that was just the result of the rich, mainly white 1 percent trying to take parts of Mexico over for their own private playground via NAFTA and other meddling in Mexico's economy. Which everyone knew would fail.

The poor Mexicans either move or die so to your neighborhood they go. It's the least you can do for the elites...by helping them prevent a revolution and all that other nastiness.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2012-05-05   11:34:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Ferret Mike (#37)

The lighter skinned Spanish took over Mexico from the darker skinned indigenous peoples of Mexico. Do they give the land back too?

Or should the mixed 'race' mestizo's rightfully get the land?

It's all so confusing.

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:35:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: We The People (#37)

Here's another monkey wrench in your race pimping spokes...

One of the fastest growing demographic groups in the United States is Hispanics. This is a relatively NEW phenomena.

It is only because the US government does not perform the job of guarding the US border.

buckeroo  posted on  2012-05-05   11:38:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: mininggold (#38)

Will the brown people have to give the land back to us white people before we can give it back to the red people?

Naaah...(rest of post ignored because it's irrelevant to the discussion)

Then we 'take' the land, AGAIN, from the brown people and give it to the red people?

But that would make the poor brown people vic tums...AGAIN! And where do all us white people go? Do we go take land from the indigenous white peoples of Europe and make them vic tums? Or, can white people even be vic tums?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:40:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: buckeroo (#40)

It is only because the US government does not perform the job of guarding the US border.

Apparently the "why's" don't matter. All that matters in this discussion is the color of ones skin.

At least, that's all that matters to the race pimps.

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:43:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: We The People (#41)

Then we 'take' the land, AGAIN, from the brown people and give it to the red people?

Every one down there already claims to be Aztec or Mayan.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2012-05-05   11:45:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: mininggold (#43)

Every one down there already claims to be Aztec or Mayan.

OK. Are they brown..... or red?

Who am I supposed to hate here?

Just us whites?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:49:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: buckeroo (#40)

It is only because the US government does not perform the job of guarding the US border.

Personally I don't want to be an East German.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2012-05-05   11:49:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: We The People (#44)

OK. Are they brown..... or red?

Who am I supposed to hate here?

Just us whites?

We'll leave you to stew in you self created conundrum.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2012-05-05   11:50:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: mininggold (#46) (Edited)

We'll leave you to stew in you self created conundrum.

LOL!

Sure you will.

If only.

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   11:53:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Brian S (#0)

I suggest we start by giving back this piece of the East-side of Manhattan.

Thunderbird  posted on  2012-05-05   12:08:43 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: Ferret Mike (#21)

If the land in question, (assuming you want to be fair and and make this land exchange worldwide and not just in the US) originally belonged to an extinct people, say... those small folk science has dubbed 'Flores Hobbit' in Malaysia, what do we do with the land then?

Auction?

Lottery?

Commune?

And if you choose commune, doesn't that mean we still own the land because we decided its purpose?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   12:09:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: Thunderbird (#48)

I suggest we start by giving back this piece of the East-side of Manhattan.

Right after a controlled demolition, on Independence Day.

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   12:10:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Brian S (#0)

Hey Chuckles, why don't you chime in and tell us all how you feel about this article/idea?

I personally believe that you feel yourself to be too stupid to engage in conversation with most on this forum.

Am I correct?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   12:14:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: We The People (#51)

I don't engage 'stupid people' but do enjoy watching them play...

Carry on fool.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-05-05   12:25:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Brian S (#52)

I don't engage 'stupid people' but do enjoy watching them play...

LOL!

Yep, we're all just your personal ant farm, aren't we Chuckles? Your superior intellect allows you to be the puppeteer and we're all on strings, just for your amusement.

You could squash us all like bugs, but being the benevolent benefactor that you are, you simply sit back and watch us run into walls.

All with the built in safety of never having to prove your superiority.

You're a vagina. And an idiotic one at that.

Comment on the article you posted. Or... are you afraid?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-05   12:37:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Thunderbird, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#48)


Gun sculpture at United Nations New York.

Are Indians any good at straightening out gun barrels?


"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Hondo68  posted on  2012-05-05   13:19:12 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: hondo68, Thunderbird (#54)

Thunderbird, *Extended Clip Progressives*

.

I know that we have our own disagreements , but we agree on alot more than we disagree on.

This is a minor point, but where you use "*Extended Clip Progressives*", FYI the current proper term of art is "HIGHCAP Mag(azine)s", (highcap mags).

Just trying to help.

Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-05-05   14:31:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: hondo68 (#54)

Are Indians any good at straightening out gun barrels?

.

FYI you wouldn't "straighten" that barrel. You'd cut/"bob" it if you wanted to reuse it. The barrel screws out of the frame. It's EASY to replace or bob a barrel. Even a libTURD could do it.

;^)

Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-05-05   14:36:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: Mad Dog (#55)

Extended Clip Progressives*", FYI the current proper term of art is "HIGHCAP Mag(azine)s", (highcap mags).

The sheriff's office said an extended clip was found nearby and Loughner had two more 15-round magazines in his pockets, though police didn't say if any of those were loaded.

Authorities say he used a Glock semiautomatic handgun with an extended clip that held 33 bullets in the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Read more: www.foxnews.com/us/2011/0...ock-pistol/#ixzz1u1SwhugI

Libtard gun grabbers still mistakenly call ammo mags clips, so that's the term I used when creating that ping list. It fits with "progressive" IMO.

That retarded sheriff is the one who blamed the whole thing on Palin's political flyer with the cross-hairs.


"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Hondo68  posted on  2012-05-05   14:55:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: hondo68 (#57)

.

LOL!

I've got cha.

You want these libTURD FOOLS to understand you so you use their stupid and incorrect terminology so as not to confuse them, (any more than they are already that is).

I see your point and I admire the thinking behind it.

Thanks for that clear explanation.

I stand corrected, (communication with libTURDSwise).

Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-05-05   15:09:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: lucysmom (#32)

You'd have to go some to surpass Elizabethan England in the torture department.

Is this "lame response that has nothing to do with the subject" day?

Or you just can't resist an attempt to make whites look worse than Indians?

"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011

Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.

sneakypete  posted on  2012-05-05   16:21:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: sneakypete (#59)

Or you just can't resist an attempt to make whites look worse than Indians?

Just providing some balance for those who believe Indians were worse than whites.

Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady

lucysmom  posted on  2012-05-05   16:24:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: We The People (#39)

Or should the mixed 'race' mestizo's rightfully get the land?

WHAT "mixed race" Mexicans? Don't you know they are all Latin's that are direct descendants of Snow White and some Castillian Don?

They be His and Her Panics,and they don't have a single drop of Injun blood in them and anybody who says they do is a damn racist!

I wonder how many of those "Latinos" speak Latin?

"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011

Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.

sneakypete  posted on  2012-05-05   16:25:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: Thunderbird (#48)

Only if we return it to it's natural state and put a ban on every developing or renting it out.

"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011

Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.

sneakypete  posted on  2012-05-05   16:27:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: Mad Dog (#56)

It's EASY to replace or bob a barrel. Even a libTURD could do it.

Let's not get carried away,here. You would have to mention "index" and "Pin",and that would get them going to the library and the sewing room.

"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011

Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.

sneakypete  posted on  2012-05-05   16:29:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: lucysmom (#60)

Just providing some balance for those who believe Indians were worse than whites.

There IS no balance. Indians WERE worse than whites in the respect that they tortured for fun instead of to punish or get information,and they never stopped this on their own. They had to be forced to stop.

"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011

Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.

sneakypete  posted on  2012-05-05   16:32:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: sneakypete (#63)

md; It's EASY to replace or bob a barrel. Even a libTURD could do it.

sp; Let's not get carried away,here. You would have to mention "index" and "Pin",and that would get them going to the library and the sewing room.

Good point pete!

My bad.

LOL!

Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-05-05   16:32:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#66. To: hondo68 (#54)

Are Indians any good at straightening out gun barrels?

I don't know but that sculpture would look pretty cool in the lobby of their casino.

Thunderbird  posted on  2012-05-05   16:54:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#67. To: We The People (#34)

All us white folks should kill ourselves!

Nah, just you, weeps. That should suffice.

Now you have to admit, that was funny!

meguro  posted on  2012-05-06   3:56:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: meguro (#67)

All us white folks should kill ourselves!

Nah, just you, weeps. That should suffice.

Now you have to admit, that was funny!

Well..... kind of.

I mean, the timing was good.

But still... You'll do better next time, I'm sure of it.

At least you're trying, right?

We The People  posted on  2012-05-06   9:06:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: Brian S (#0)

The only way the USSA keeps this land is by the USSA courts ignoring the repeated petitions from the very first broken treaty.

How many treaties has First Nation broken?

ZERO

How many treaties has the USSA broken?

All of them....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-05-06   9:39:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#70. To: A K A Stone (#4)

I'm First Nation.

When the fu ck do you leave?...;}

"Marshal Sahlins, a noted anthropologist and author of the widely circulated book, Stone Age Economics, reports that after studying many tribal economies, he finds that none of them come near the maximum yield of their environment. That made them stable and sustainable.

One of the myths of civilization is that our ancestors were hungry, lived short lives, and only by a high birth rate, could sustain their populations. Just the opposite is true. Tribal people consciously kept their populations under control by herbal contraception, abortion, abstinence, long nursing periods and infanticide.

Anthropologist Robert Allen in examining the !Kung Bushmen who live in the Kalahari desert of southern Africa finds that, "The proportion of men and women over 60 is 10 per cent-smaller than in the industrial countries of Europe and North America, but significantly greater than in the nonindustrial countries of the tropics."1 Infant mortality is higher in forager/hunter groups. Once puberty is reached though, their good health insures long life. When this is averaged, including their higher infant mortality, it causes the life-span numbers to be lower. This has allowed the familiar canard that "primitives lived short lives."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-05-06   9:55:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#71. To: sneakypete (#64)

"There IS no balance. Indians WERE worse than whites in the respect that they tortured for fun instead of to punish or get information,and they never stopped this on their own. They had to be forced to stop."

Not true. We fought wars with them to exterminate, they would fight wars where proving one's manhood was more important then the body count. Otherwise 'counting coup,' where a man humiliated his opponent by batting him with a non-lethal pole would of been a ridiculous thing; not something that brought respect.

I would mention that we introduced the practice of 'scalping. It was a means of doing a headcount of eliminated natives where bounties were given out.

During the colonial Pequot war, we destroyed one village genealogically, burning it to the ground killing every man, woman and child, much like the U.S. Army later did at Sand Creek, Wounded Knee and at other engagements.

In the case of the Pequot war example, we were so brutal and merciless, our native allies were so horrified at the sight of what Western Civilization's view of the acceptability of genocidal war manifested itself as, many were reduced to tears of horror.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-05-06   12:01:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: We The People (#34)

"That's race pimping 101, Mike."

I'm white, dufus, does that mean you think I scream in horror when I look in the mirror and see a white man's face? it is citation of historical facts. I did not condemn the Cherokee for assimilating our culture. Had I done that, I would be exhibiting the sort of bias you erroneously attribute to my historic example of injustice, prosecution and theft.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-05-06   12:06:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#73. To: Ferret Mike (#71)

Not true. We fought wars with them to exterminate, they would fight wars where proving one's manhood was more important then the body count. Otherwise 'counting coup,' where a man humiliated his opponent by batting him with a non-lethal pole would of been a ridiculous thing; not something that brought respect.

Oh,HorseHillary! Indian tribes fought wars to exterminate other Indian tribes in order to take their lands away. They would keep a few women and children to replace the warriors they lost,but who Indian nations disappeared this way and the white man had nothing to do with it. In fact,John Smith of "Pocohontas" fame notes some Indian tribes having vanished between his first visit to the New World and the time he settled there. He made notes this was probably due to low numbers of that surviving tribe,and them being taken over by larger tribes in the area.

The Counting Coup thing was to prove bravery,not win wars.

I would mention that we introduced the practice of 'scalping.

No,we didn't. It is true white settlers from France or England (can't remember which now) may have spread scalping due to pay-offs to one local tribe for eliminating another local tribe,but various Indian tribes had been taking "trophies" for who knows how long before whites even showed up.

Since no Indian tribe had advanced to the point they had a written language,there are obviously no writings detailing how long ago they started taking scalps.

During the colonial Pequot war, we destroyed one village genealogically, burning it to the ground killing every man, woman and child, much like the U.S. Army later did at Sand Creek, Wounded Knee and at other engagements.

Once again,you are taking your PC history that only teaches the politically correct part of any event,and running with it.

For example,the British attacked a village of Tuscarora (my ancestors) in the early 1700's,killing every man,woman,and child they found there. People take stories like this and react like it all happened in some sort of vacuum. It didn't. The British attack was in response to a Tuscarora attack on a British settlement,where the Tuscarora killed every white man,woman,and child. Except for the women they took as sex slaves,that is.

The end result of all this after several other massacres by both sides that included the British importing a rival tribe from South Carolina to come to North Carolina to help with the fight was that the British paid the Tuscarora to move back to NY. Most did,but some disappeared into the swamp and remained in NC. Those who were caught were enslaved,despite it being illegal to enslave Indians. The Colonial Governor was a long ways away,and what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him,

The thing being that it was the INDIANS that started the massacres and enslavements because they were the sort of the things they had always done.

Do the words "Crotan" and "The Lost Colony" ring any bells with you?

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sneakypete  posted on  2012-05-06   15:06:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#74. To: mcgowanjm (#70)

I'm First Nation.

When the fu ck do you leave?...;}

No asshole you are NOT.

There is NO "FIRST" nation asshole.

Whoever you claim was FIRST was NOT. They displaced somebody else asshole.

You are little ol Lizzie Warren mctoejam, you're just workin the current system asshole.

You libTURD SCUM can't breathe without working a FRAUD, often on your own dumb assed selves.

When are YOU leaving mctoejam, when are going to walk the walk and go LIVE in a socialist paradise like ,....Cuba?, muder Russia?, perhaps the paradise of the middle kingdom commies? Where FRAUD where? When FRAUD when?

GO FRAUD.

GO.

libTURD SCUM

Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-05-06   16:27:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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