Lakota Nation?

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Rino
Considering we fought for 4 years to keep the South from doing the same
thing, they might reconsider.

Considering the cost in lives , destruction and the revelations in history since then that the stated motives used to swing the actions  behind the war with the south was a total farce, the U.S. Government would probably also be wise to do some serious consideration.

[Fulmar]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Heres a wild fact for you, by the year 1600, 90% of the population of Indians had died of disease transmitted (accidentally) by Europeans.
 

Here's a wild fact.  99.9999% of all stats and facts posted online without a credible source are false.

Source

[Shuckins]

Here's another wild fact!  According to archaeologists, the Indian population of Arkansas at the time of DeSoto's expedition in 1521 was around 76,000.

The next group of white men to visit the state 141 years later, Marquette and Joliet, found the area largely bereft of human occupants.  Historians state that the Native American population had dwindled to less than 10,000.

The consensus among scholars is that they did not emigrate from the region due to a bad job market.  

Similarly, in the 100 years after Cortez conquered the Aztecs, the Indian population of Mexico shrank from approximately 10 million to about 1 million.

Not rumors....FACT.  The causes were several;  man-killing slave labor on the Spanish plantations and in the silver-mines being one, but the main cause was epidemics of smallpox, measles, and typhus, which were unknown in the New World until the coming of Europeans.

Fact.

[john9001]

Originally posted by Shuckins

Not rumors....FACT.  The causes were several;  man-killing slave labor on the Spanish plantations and in the silver-mines being one, but the main cause was epidemics of smallpox, measles, and typhus, which were unknown in the New World until the coming of Europeans.

Fact.

it was a fair trade, white man gave the indians smallpox, measles, and typhus, and the indians gave the white man tobacco and syphilis.

do you have any idea how many white men have died from tobacco?

[Fulmar]

Originally posted by john9001
do you have any idea how many white men have died from tobacco?

Pretty sure smoking, chewing tobacco is a choice.  I don't know too many people who chose to get infected with small pox etc.

[Tac]

Originally posted by lazs2
we never did anything to the indians that they didn't already do to each other... we just did it better.

lazs

That my friend, is SIG material.

true true true.

[Chairboy]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/23/133010/57/277/425848

Per my post above, other folks are coming to the same conclusion.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Chairboy
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/23/133010/57/277/425848

Per my post above, other folks are coming to the same conclusion.

Other folks are also trying to justify/deny using political figureheads also. White eyes style.
It will be interesting to see where it leads with the Lakota Nation and the U.S.

[lazs2]

thanks tac...

You could also say that we never did anything to the environment that the indians didn't already do... we just did it better.

lazs

[Pooh21]

Except for Laz I am  appalled by the racism from you all. I was on the rez. If the liberals have destroyed the black family from the 60s, they had a 50 year head start with our Native nations. It is a 3rd world country, with 3rd world rules you would not understand unless you visited. I did not, now I do. It is crazy how it is there. I felt more secure in Bulgaria. Freedom and what was promised in the treaties should be upheld here. But hey lets vote for a guy who should be running from a Madrassa in the Jungle instead.

[Ack-Ack]

Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!




ack-ack

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

None of it matters, now watch as people sell all land to mall and parking lot developers, who should waste no time puting up nice big sun and view blocking city's.


Should prove interesting. "sorry we have to cut off your water flow, your natural river is runing through the land we need to make this here fancy parking lot."


-shrugs-

[Cypher]

None of it matters, now watch as people sell all land to mall and parking lot developers, who should waste no time puting up nice big sun and view blocking city's.


Should prove interesting. "sorry we have to cut off your water flow, your natural river is runing through the land we need to make this here fancy parking lot."


-shrugs-

...Thsi was like 8 months ago.