juliaoceania -> RE: Do you feel responsible? (6/12/2011 9:56:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: littlewonder have to agree with willbeurdaddy here about the native americans. My family has been here since 1749 and left written documents of why they built the fort in PA that holds my family name, of how they had to protect their families from the red man who attacked and scalped their pacifist brethren men and kidnapped women and children. Now I'm not saying that what the white man did to the red man was any better but to think that the red man was somehow less than guilty of any rebellion is a myth. If I felt guilt for what my ethnicity did I'd feel it from all sides....the killing of native americans by my german family, the native american family for killing the germans, the slavic side for killing magyars, the magyars for killing slavics, etc...yeah my shoulders just ain't that big. lol Number one, there were 100s of individual nations of original inhabitants in this country. Their occupation of this continent went back 1000s of years. If someone came into your land, and took your resources, you might take their scalp... Not to mention, how could they tell who were "pacifists" and who were not? The Indians were taught how to scalp by the French, in fact Indians were scalped before they ever did any scalping
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