California Slaughter: The State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans
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2016 Aug 17, 10:15pm 15,226 views 57 comments
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Strategist
2016 Aug 19, 5:27am
So what are you suggesting?
Facing reality. Admitting how the USA started and explaining why this behavior is or is not OK. And taking an open mind about it.
Been there done that. Now what?
Y
2016 Aug 19, 5:40am
FIFY...
One thing about the Indians: They kept the lawn mowed!
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Patrick
2016 Aug 19, 7:28am
How about an annual "IgnoreFree" day where all 'ignores' are disabled?
I'm thinking that perhaps ignores should time out after a year. People change, maybe they'll get along after that. And one click year isn't too much work if you want to ignore someone again.
In The Evolution of Cooperation ( https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cooperation-Robert-Axelrod/dp/0465021212 ) Axelrod proves that tit-for-tat is the best strategy for dealing with Prisoner's Dilemma in theory, but occasional attempts to cooperate after the other side has "defected" (as he puts it) might manage to establish mutual cooperation, which is the best for everyone.
Been there done that. Now what?
Hoe about something like this: "Our country has profited greatly from taking other people's land and resources, and killing them in the process. I say we return to these tried and true roots of what made us great, and so, fellow Americans, if elected....."
Strategist
2016 Aug 19, 9:23am
Been there done that. Now what?
Hoe about something like this: "Our country has profited greatly from taking other people's land and resources, and killing them in the process. I say we return to these tried and true roots of what made us great, and so, fellow Americans, if elected....."
I say we maintain our constitution, capitalism and democracy. Our true wealth and prosperity will be derived, not from stealing other peoples wealth, but by producing wealth through hard and smart work. Lets give every citizen a chance to succeed without giving them handouts.
I say we maintain our constitution, capitalism and democracy. Our true wealth and prosperity will be derived, not from stealing other peoples wealth, but by producing wealth through hard and smart work. Lets give every citizen a chance to succeed without giving them handouts.
I dunno. Without the killing, raping and stealing part, I am afraid this will not sell.
Strategist
2016 Aug 19, 4:49pm
I say we maintain our constitution, capitalism and democracy. Our true wealth and prosperity will be derived, not from stealing other peoples wealth, but by producing wealth through hard and smart work. Lets give every citizen a chance to succeed without giving them handouts.
I dunno. Without the killing, raping and stealing part, I am afraid this will not sell.
In that case, lets take all the Saudi oil and give it to all humans. Natural resources belong to all humans.
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The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County “excepting a few childrenâ€; an Indian girl raped and left to die somewhere near Mendocino; as many as 50 killed at Goose Lake; and, two months later, as many as 257 murdered at Grouse Creek, scores of them women and children. There were the four white ranchers who tracked down a band of Yana to a cave, butchering 30. “In the cave with the meat were some Indian children,†reported a chronicle published later. One of the whites “could not bear to kill these children with his 56-calibre Spencer rifle. ‘It tore them up so bad.’ So he did it with his 38-calibre Smith and Wesson revolver.â€
There have been books written about the systematic slaughter of California Indians, but none as gruesomely thorough as Benjamin Madley’s An American Genocide, from which the above accounts come. He estimates that between 9,000 and 16,000 Indians, though probably many more, were killed by vigilantes, state militiamen and federal soldiers between 1846 and 1873, in what he calls an “organized destruction†of the state’s largely peaceful indigenous peoples.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/26/california-native-americans-genocide-490824.html?google_editors_picks=true
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