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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Columbus vs Indians (was Re: PC lives)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.232611.345@vexcel.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:26:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.211245.12184@m5.harvard.edu> <1hsc58INNhtd@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1hsc58INNhtd@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM writes:
- >
- >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.
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- I know some Indians that could describe some to you.
- >
- >On the other issue, giving back "some land," from where do we get this land?
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- National forest land would be a good start.
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- >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?
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- Most tribes have representative councils. Most tribes had communal land
- so we needn't worry about individuals.
- >
- >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?
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- That's not our problem. U.S. citizens should worry about land pertaining
- to treaties that the U.S. signed.
- >
- >Dave
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