On 2014-01-09 13:10, Cari Machet wrote:
if u really want to know what i think then u need to know my thought processies are not like "white" ppl
Are you one thirty second Indian, or one sixty fourth?
ideas of ownership are foreign to me i am native american and most tribes though they lived in areas didnt consider ownership of them but a co-creative partnership
Bunkum: The Chocktaw owned black slaves and grew cotton. The slaves, the fields, and the cotton belonged to individual Chocktaw, not to the tribe.
when my people hunted buffalo in the plains they didnt just indiscriminately kill buffalo they weeded the herd and were mindful to examine how they could be of help to the herd
How do you think the horse became extinct in the Americas, the mammoths, and all the rest? Whites report that Indians, when they got the chance, killed a very large number of buffalo and ate only the tongues. The South American Indians had better technology than the North American Indians, and killed almost everything larger than a dog. If the North American Indians had had metal, would have killed everthing larger than a rabbit. Colonel Calloway, at the urging of Daniel Boone, purchased the south side of the Kentucky River from the Indians. They spent the money in short order, and having spent the money, wanted the land back, starting a war against the whites, a war against Daniel Boone and Colonel Calloway, which turned out to be a really bad idea. This was the general pattern, repeated over and over, with land purchases leading to extraordinarily terrible Indian wars. By and large, Indian wars resulted from the short time preference of the Indians relative to the longer time preference of the whites. Indians would make bad deals, a lot of land for a little whiskey, then after the whites arrived and had created facts on the ground, the Indians would change their minds, even though it was by then far too late to change their minds. If the Indians had had reasonable time preference, they would have been able to hold out for a fair deal, and then stick to it. Once whites started to arrive, it was a really bad time for the Indians to turn around and break the deal, but nonetheless it was usually the Indians that broke the deal, usually by abducting children, sometimes by scalping children and burning them alive. Not only would they break the deal, but break it at the worst time for themselves, in the worst way for themselves, and in the most evil and horrible possible way.