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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Columbus vs Indians (was Re: PC lives)
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:36:24 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- References: <1992Dec29.211245.12184@m5.harvard.edu>
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- >we have back and then leave and try to find someplace else to live. But we can
- >at least acknowledge the truth, and stop glorifying the conquerors of the past.
- >And since the conquered peoples are still here and unassimilated, it would not
- >be a case of "running out of recorded history", if we did give them back some
- >land. I guess the Indian reservations are just that; I don't know if it's
- >sufficient or not. Land aside, the least we can do is show them respect.
- >Glorifying and celebrating the conquest and destruction of the native cultures
- >does not constitute showing respect.
- >
- > - Dave Borden
- > borden@m5.harvard.edu
-
- I don't know of any school, history books, courses, that glorify and celebrate
- the conquest and destruction of native cultures, so we're safe there.
-
- On the other issue, giving back "some land," from where do we get this land?
- National parks, city halls, your back yard? To whom do we give it- individuals,
- tribes? If an individual is 1/4 Aztec, does he get a piece? What if "some" is
- not enough? Since this is a thorny issue, how should it be addressed?
-
- Since the main theater of operations of the Conquistadores was Mexico, the
- Caribbean, and South/Central America, how can the US give that land back to
- whomever?
-
- Dave
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