People on twitter were quick to point to this groups last protest, which left the land an environmental mess.
There’s a myth that continues to this day, that Indians cherished the land and were “green.”
Uhhhhh, no. They are just like what we see today – drunk and still building teepees.
@Latinos4Bernie Please don't let them trash this area like they did to their "sacred lands". pic.twitter.com/RSMDgDZ3ai
— Greg Ian Riggs (@WinkyEmoticon) March 10, 2017
Graffiti once seen in an Army latrine:
THIS IS A TEEPEE
FOR YOU TO PEEPEE
NOT TO BEAT YOUR TOMTOM
🙂
A Teepee? Why didn’t the injuns build a casino?
Maybe they should consult someone from a DC tribe on the most effective form of protest in DC. This effort mis a waste of their time!
Go beat your Tom-Tom because you’ve been told you can no longer live in the basement of your Mom-Mom’s.
There is no more complicated structure to build than a teepee. Unless you consider the blanket and dining room chairs that I used to build a tent when I was 4 years old.
Two things wrong with this.
1. It’s too early for football.
2. Fedex Field is in Hyattsville, MD.
Looks like they haven’t done that too often. We white guys who sometimes campo in one do it faster and better.
A little truthful history lesson: Most Indians did not practice agriculture or raise animals for food. They hunted until they had exhausted the food supply, then moved on to decimate the next area. Not exactly resource friendly and self-sustaining like the white population.
East Coast forest Indians built large wooden rectangular Long Houses. Permanent.
Southeastern Indians added elevated floors and palmetto breezeways.
Southwestern Indians built with mud bricks and some impressive cliff dwellings.
Plains nomads dragging their TeePees around in search of game may have been looked down on by other Indians as shiftless low lives.
Homeless itinerant gypsies drifting around stealing livestock and raiding your garden plots in the middle of the night.
@PHenry:
I dunno about that. Check out the structure of a tensegrity sphere. Figures 6 and 7 of the linked Buckminster Fuller patent. Or a model like this one similar to one my dad and I built together 20-30 years ago.
And I saw those TeePees on the D.C. mall a few days ago.
They’re expensive commercially sewn affairs, made of machine sewn heavy duty synthetic chemically treated artificial canvas sailcloth fabric (SunForger tm).
Corrugated steel re-bar used for stakes. Nylon rope from China for guy lines. Yada yada.
When the Civil War hit, most tribes fought proudly with the Confederacy. They knew who the real enemy was.
And they got Yankee General Custer, eventually. Too bad they couldn’t sink their tomahawks into those Yankee genocidal maniacs Sherman and Grant.
“Whupped ’em again, Josie.”
“Endeavor to persevere.”
AS A NATIVE AMERICAN I FIND THESE COMMENTS OFFENSIVE.
‘Native Americans’ had a variety of lifestyles, but certainly none of them were driven by some all-knowing care for the earth. Prior to Columbus there were regularly-set prairie fires covering thousands of acres. As we have learned more recently somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% were wiped out by disease soon after the Europeans’ arrival. My guess is that in the couple hundred years after that there was a tremendous boom in the animal population, and if there wasn’t such a big impact it merely means that there weren’t enough to have had a large impact pre-Columbus, not that they had some special care for the Earth.
@Uncle Al, kids build TPs with logs in the torching pit and after a dozen beers TPs form naturally in the shitting pit and gramma throws down oatmeal TPs in the firing pit. Nuthin to it.
Huh?
I m ok with making enemies tonight. It’s ok.
Never forget. I’m always right. Unless I’m wrong. This ain’t pbs or NBC or CBS who are never wrong. About anything. Hahaha.
They didn’t have Lowe’s to buy tarps
from, WTF?