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Ever seen those old movies from the 1940’s-60’s. Remember those flicks, when the Indians were the bad guys and the early settlers were often the victims. Yep those were the good old days. But by the late 1960’s things were changing and a new victim was taking stage center—the noble red man, the native American. Suddenly he was the great noble warrior, the one who was as one with nature. He was the NOBLE SAVAGE. And the white man, suddenly he was seen as the interloper, the stranger in the land, the EVIL ONE. Yes Hollywood and the American left turned the world upside down and began a great re-indoctrination of the American public. Movies such as “Dances With Wolves” and the recent “Avatar” depicted the Noble Savage, that one who is at peace with the environment and has a virtual love affair with the animals around him. Animals he killed and feed upon, just as that evil white man did in those distant times.
Welcome to the world of revisionist history.
The Hollywood crowd should do the right thing and give their land back to the Indians.
Remember this guy? Turns out he was a 2nd generation Italian.
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Sorry… Bad link. It was the Keep America Beautiful commercial where the”Indian” in full dress had a tear in his eye when someone threw a bag of garbage at his feet.
This occurred around the same time Americans quit watching westerns. Coincidence?
Whats so troubling to me is how they manage to convince so many into embracing their point of view. Common sense is anything but common.
I lived in northern NY when the Syracuse Indians started saying they wanted the city of Syracuse returned to them. They claimed the evil white man had taken it from them. Someone pointed out that the Syracuse tribe had taken it from some other tribe, who had taken it from another. Case dismissed.
The progressive libtards in their everlasting attempts to ‘change the world’ preach a sort of confessional doctrine as if that will cause history to forgive the trespasses of their forebears.
In reality what they seek is to elevate themselves so that they can say that they are ‘above the fray’ and ‘better’ than those who do not see the skewed reality that they claim is the truth.
Revisionist history is nothing more than an exercise in self-aggrandizement.
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“American Indians from childhood were taught to revere killing as the highest of virtues. In the dance and at the feasts, the warriors recite their deeds of theft, pillage, and slaughter as precious things, and, indeed, the only ambition of the young Indian is to secure the “feather” which is but the record of his having murdered, or participated in the murder of some human being – whether man, woman or child is immaterial; and after he has secured his first feather, his appetite is whetted to increase the number in his hair as an Indian brave is esteemed by the number of his feathers. Without the feather the young Indian is regarded as a squaw, and, as a general rule, cannot get a wife, and is despised, derided and treated poorly bay all. The head-dress filled with these feathers and other insignia of blood is regarded as sacred and no unhallowed hand of man nor any woman would dare touch it.”
(PDF Book – history of the Sioux War and Massacres) August, 1986
To get first hand accounts of life with Indians it’s eye-opening to go to Google books and search for books and articles written before 1900. Tales of Indian brutality spread through Europe long before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.
George Washington diverted troops to battle the Iroquois who waited for men in a town leave to join Washington’s forces and then raided the town of food supplies, brutally “raped until death” the women, slaughtered and burned alive the women and children there.
The Sioux were notoriously brutal. They gang raped all females no matter how young and sold them from tribe to tribe. One of their favorite passtimes was shooting arrows into defenseless women and children.
Reading contemporaneous accounts is truly eye-opening. There were, indeed, transgressions by whites. The Indian Bureau in particular was corrupt as government bureaucracies tend to be. But whites entered into transactions with Indians as they did with other Europeans – exchanging value for value. The difference is the whites expected they would then own what they purchased but Indians, with no tradition of the rule of law, didn’t honor agreements.
Regarding reservations, I learned something never taught in school.”Indians were set up on reservations with all the things they needed to be successful farmers and have successful towns. Land was cleared, plowed and planted. Homes built, blacksmith shops started, trades taught, but they did not want to emulate the western way of life.”
it was the loss of the “Marlboro Man” that caused all this pussy pc non-sense !
bad mouth cigarette adds all you want. but when we had them, men were men and gays were in the closet not your wives and daughters restrooms.
“i’d rather fight than switch !”
The image of the US Army massacring Indian non-combatants is one of the biggest lies of all. Most of those (and there weren’t anywhere near as many as massacres by Indians) were the work of civilian mobs, out to avenge an atrocity.
But this is how effective the Lefties have been, going back to a book more than 100 years old called A Century Of Dishonor.
“The Sioux were notoriously brutal. They gang raped all females no matter how young and sold them from tribe to tribe. One of their favorite pastimes was shooting arrows into defenseless women and children.”
That applied to all Indians. And the Comanches were some of the worst.
The Iroquois (fighting for the Limeys) and Hurons (fighting for the Frawgs) during the French and Indian Wars would ritualize torture among their captives and were known to impale prisoners and cook them.
BTW Most Indians had already stolen the land they possessed from other Indians when the white man came – sometimes areas had changed hands several times.
I am currently watching a channel which shows mainly old TV westerns. Most of the big ones started in the early 60’s and ran through the early 70’s. Starting in about 1966, the Social Justice component really gets kicked up a notch, and the folkie vibe shifts to a hippie vibe.
There’s a lot less frontier life and cowboy stuff, and a whole lot more interest in the handicapped, the unjustly accused, the mistreatment of Indians, the rampant sexism and such. By 1970, they even deal with PTSD, using former Civil War soldiers as the vehicle.
The Left (but not just them, sadly) tend to view others in direct comparison with their own prejudices. You don’t fit the profile of ‘Like Minded’, and you are relegated to ‘other’ status and your moral structure is suspect.
This is as bad as judging another culture like the Indians by our own standards.
We have standards of what is cruel and what is not.
Now that does not mean to cast a forgiving eye on ancient atrocities, and posit that that lifestyle would work in this time, because it wont.
But the standards of chivalry and what we call decent behavior is what works for our time.
The romanticizing of the Noble Savage is just as egregious a mistake.
We live now, our standards apply to us. The future will declare us horrible for some reason or another, we cannot escape that.
Having said all that, Liberalism is a self destructive ideology because underneath these clothes, we are the dominant primate on the planet, and we are preternaturally warlike. Love conquers all is a nice sentiment, as long as somebody is out on the perimeter somewhere ready to do violence on our behalf.
@formwiz – One of these days we’ll have to write the curriculum that corrects history.
If you start by asking a common sense question, the lies all fall apart. For instance, if Indians were truly more peaceful and better stewards of the land, why aren’t any reservations idyllic tourist destinations?
I also always wondered regarding slavery: if blacks were so badly mistreated and hated their white master so, why is it that the white families slept peacefully in their homes surrounded by powerful black field hands with access to axes and shovels? The masters were sitting ducks.
The left speak with forked tongue.
Dinesh D’Souza talks about American Indians in his many talks at colleges and high schools. And he has it right; they are in the same boat as underachieving black and — what he calls — Spanish minority populations. They are inculcated to all forms of gov’t welfare and have lost the drive to live by the fruit of their own labor. As we all know, it is important to the Left that large numbers of these minorities stay dependent on the dole. They’ve traded their personal sovereignty under the Constitution for SNAP, CHIP, EBT and a cultural narrative makeover.
Now we have the Noble Savage, The Strong, Proud Black Man/Woman (complete with African accessories from places most black Americans can’t locate on a world map), and the Displaced, Long-Suffering Mexican (who is always portrayed as humble and honest).
Has anyone been on an Indian Reservation lately? You’ve got the mega casino (which, at one time or another is embroiled in some kind of corruption scandal), or the five rusting cars and assorted home appliance junk yard in the front yard. Someone even told me once that the reason most Indian’s yards/homes look like that is because they don’t value/worship modern White innovation the way Whites do.
There are people of all colors in this country who have swapped self-sufficiency for an airbrushed, historical account of their noble (sometimes, literally) family trees.
Thanks for the link! Wrote this piece a while back, but still fitting today.
Schools have been teaching revisionist history (especially US History) for decades. Common Core has ramped up the speed and ferocity. The patriots were evil killing machines who tortured and murdered the loyalists just for fun. Those poor loyalists just wanted to stay with British rule, which, after all, is the right way to think. They were just innocent people who didn’t want to join the patriots and murder their brothers from England.
And, of course, the Indians were innocent, too. Columbus was a blood thirsty maniac who slaughtered every native he found because he thought that he was God because he was white. Oh, and Manifest Destiny – God intended the white man to rid the America’s of all native people because they were only animals.
I hate what education has become. No wonder we have so many foolish people in this country after what the liberals did to their impressionistic minds from youth.
^^^ That and Liberal Arts Degrees. 😉
It appears American indians and muzzies have a lot in common.
I came to be an Arizonan because my Dad, who was a doctor, and who owed the Federal Govt for financing his med school education was assigned to the San Carlos Indian (Apache in this case) Reservation. This is the reservation that was the setting in the movie, “Hombre”
Dad had two stories from those days. One involved an old Apache who complained about not being able to hear. So Dad looked into the man’s ear and saw a tick snacking on the man’s eardrum, which led my Dad to think, “It’s possible this may be the cause of with the patient’s presenting complaint. (badoom tssh!)
The point of that story was to illustrate the incredible toughness and stoicism of Apaches, as the man had made no complaint about pin at all. The second story demonstrates their incredible capacity for cruelty. Dad said he treated numerous women who had been set on fire by their husbands simply on the SUSPICION that they had been unfaithful.
Once in a while when my lib sisters go off on the treatment of the noble Native Americans by white men, I always bring this story up
One thing about so called “racist” Westerns of the Fifties and Sixties. The adversaries weren’t simply Indians. They were frequently either the Comanch or the Apache. Both of these tribes horribly brutalized other Indian tribes. The Comanch carved out a huge territory for themselves by completely wiping out other tribes.
And generally speaking these Western gave the Indians their due by paying homage to their toughness and courage. On the other hand, when the worm turned, white men were depicted in the most contemptuous way possible
Kill the fighting men, extinguish that gene pool, and you have killed the culture.
What happened to the various unconnected Indian tribes is the same sad bloodletting tale of Wars that have bled dry the male gene pools of England, France and Germany.
The late 19C campaigns to exterminate the Western Indians is entirely the outcome of the North’s victory over the South in the Civil War.
That victory ensured that Northeastern banks and Trusts owned both the corrupt Northern politicians (Ulysses Grant) and national policy.
The same Union Army that had murdered, burned and raped it’s way across the South–allegedly fellow white Americans having voted for Independence–had no qualms about killing Indians. Custer, Sherman, all the bloodiest Union generals were unleashed on the West.
The Indian tribes fought for the Confederacy. They could see the future if the North prevailed.
Southerners played little or no part in Post-1865 actions against the Indian.
From the Declaration of Independence:
He (the King) has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
But by all means hold Americans accountable for the years from 1492 to 1776 where Brits, Spaniards, and the French helped cultivate armies of mercenary tribes.
“Captain Whisky is a brave warrior; you fight him long enough and he is sure to get your scalp.”
– attributed to Captain Pipe, aka Hopocan, King of New Portage, in P. P. Cherry’s history “The Portage Path,” 1911.