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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: 31 Dec 1992 20:49:44 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- References: <1992Dec30.232611.345@vexcel.com>
- Reply-To: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM
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- >>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.
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- Please poll them, and report here.
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- >
- >On the other issue, giving back "some land," from where do we get this land?
- >National forest land would be a good start.
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- Which national forest land goes to which tribes?
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- >>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.
- >
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- I agree that the US government shamelessly stole and cheated Indians
- out of treatied lands. But the topic of this discussion relates to Columbus
- and the Indians of that area, specifically.
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- Dave
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