HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY!
The day liberals celebrate cannibalism, slavery and oppression
On Indigenous People’s Day we mourn that America is no longer a warring, scalping, cannibalistic, slave-owning people, for whom “making people scream in pain was interesting and rewarding.” (S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon).
To pay proper tribute to what we have lost, here are a few scenes from the 1836 Comanche raid on the Parker settlement in Texas, which kicked off “the longest and most brutal of all the wars between Americans and a single Indian tribe.”
One morning, hundreds of Comanches rode up to the Parker’s fortress, waving a white flag and claiming they just wanted a cow and directions to a watering hole. Minutes later, this happened:
“[T]he Indians surrounded …Benjamin [Parker] and impaled him on their lances. He was clubbed, shot with arrows at extremely close range, and then, probably still alive, scalped. …
“Rachel was already running with her son in her arms toward the back door. She was quickly caught. In her own detailed account ‘a large sulky Indian picked up a hoe and knocked me down.’ She fainted, and when she came to was being dragged by her long red hair, bleeding profusely from her head wound…. She was taken to the main body of Indians, where she saw her uncle’s mutilated face and body up close. …Two Comanche women began to beat her with a whip. …
“[T]he Indians attacked the men who had remained in the fort, killing Silas and his relatives Samuel and Robert Frost. All three were scalped. Next, the warriors turned to a task especially suited to mounted, raiding Plains Indians: running down fleeing, screaming victims. Elder John Parker, his wife, Sallie, and her daughter Elizabeth Kellogg, a young widow, had managed to travel three-quarters of a mile when the Indians overtook them. All three were surrounded and stripped of all of their clothing. One can only imagine their horror as they cowered stark naked before their tormentors on the open plain. The Indians then went to work on them, attacking the old man with tomahawks, and forcing Granny Parker, who kept trying to look away, to watch what they did to him.They scalped him, cut off his genitals, and killed him …Then they turned their attentions to Granny, pinning her to the ground with their lances, raping her, driving a knife deep into one of her breasts, and leaving her for dead.”
For the next several years, Rachel, who was four months pregnant at the time of the raid, had the rewarding experience of living among the Comanches and learning their charming folkways :
“In October 1836 [Rachel] gave birth to her second son. … One morning, when the baby was seven weeks old, half a dozen men came. While several of them held Rachel, one of them strangled the baby, then handed him to her. When he showed signs of life, they took him again, this time tying a rope around his neck and dragging him through prickly pear cactus, and eventually dragged him behind a horse around a hundred-yard circuit. ‘My little innocent one was not only dead, but literally torn to pieces,’ wrote Rachel.”
Ironically, the best known American Indian, Iron Eyes Cody, from the award-winning “Keep America Beautiful” campaign, was a full-blooded Italian, born Espera Oscar de Corti.
Which reminds me …
Let Ann's excellent column serve as a reminder...
~When we named sports teams, cities, towns, roads and landmarks after indians, it was done as a gracious gesture of respect and as an effort to honor indians and their culture. When activists suddenly become offended over this and demand that your city's sports team or river or mountain or whatever be renamed, don't put up a fuss. They never deserved the honor to begin with and your sports team would be far better served with a different name.
~The white settlers to North America didn't 'steal' anybody's land. Brutal warfare was the standard way that real estate exchanged ownership in those days as well as for thousands of years prior. The various indian tribes did that constantly among themselves prior to the arrival of white settlers, and so the idea that what happened was anything more than "we won, you lost, deal with it" is laughable.
~ It was commonplace for a conquering army to kill every last battle-ready enemy warrior they could find and enslave the rest. This was the normal way of life for indians. Everywhere on Earth, throughout human history, It was almost unheard of for the victors to GIVE BACK vast swaths of land to their beaten enemy and allow them autonomous legal control of it, much less to be so kind to them in allowing them to live as they pleased.
~The descriptions of depraved barbarity that Ann includes in her column today are actually rather mild and tame compared with what was commonplace for indian tribes to inflict upon each other on a regular basis, as well as upon the white settlers. I won't go into more detail in deference to any Ladies who might be reading, but for those interested, going back to the original source documents will be a real eye-opener for many, especially younger folks who have only been exposed to the sanitized versions now taught in public schools.
Far from feeling guilty over anything the white settlers did during The Indian Wars, white Americans should feel proud of their forebears, that they conducted themselves with far greater honor and dignity than their enemies did. White settlers truly brought Civilization to North America.
Happy Columbus Day!
Happy Columbus day ~
I grew up around many Italian families in Connecticut.
My uncle by marriage, his parents were from Sicily.
Unlike immigrants now they were treated horribly and yes they were legal.
I didn't know until today that my uncle's parents did not know how to read and write in English.
My uncle learned late in life.
Still! They could cook, bake , build and fix anything and everything.
All of this said- I do not need liberal supremacists to tell me what to celebrate and why bc history is debatable and you have to accept the good, bad and ugly of it all.
Today I think of my uncle and am grateful to his parents who treated me like their own.
They never hated America like libs do.
Columbus day was a day to eat Italian food and bakery goods.
Happy Columbus day to all and f'k libs
I am SO sick of hearing about what offends them.
They've ruined America.