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Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:31 pm
by pimpdave
Would the sheep understand me better if I asked them out on dates in Welsh?

Time to call Berlitz!

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:41 pm
by jonesthecurl
pimpdave wrote:Would the sheep understand me better if I asked them out on dates in Welsh?

Time to call Berlitz!


not with that accent.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:19 pm
by Jenos Ridan
Hologram wrote:I like to call 'em redskinned savages, but that's just the 15th century European in me.


Seriously, though. Forget all this politically correct bullshit. Call them Indians, if you'd like. If you're afraid of confusing people with the red ones and the yellow ones then call them native american or whatever.


Jones, the term "redskin" came about because, to 15th and 16th century europeans, they had a reddish-brown skin tone (telling you the obvious, I know. Sorry). And forget the PCBS, tell the PCP to shut their trap.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:20 pm
by PLAYER57832
Anarkistsdream wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:I may be wrong, but as I understood it, most (or at least many) tribal names are names given to the tribe by either european settlers or other tribes - each tribe's name for itslef (as in most of the world) being simply "Us" or "People" or something similar, in their own language. I'm not sure if that's the case with the Apache. If so (ie if the APache have another name for themself), what is it? ANd would one Apache use it when speaking to another?



Well, even more convoluted is the fact that there were many types of Apache. I am Lipan Apache, but there are other variations.

Lipan is what we would call ourselves, but we were of a greater denomination that is Apache- due to where the tribe settled.

Lipan is also the variant of the language that would be spoken- I don't know any, so don't ask. ;)


And in some cases, those "same tribes" have historically "got along" about as well as the Scots and English did in the pre-Stewart days.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:54 pm
by Elijah S
I think the politically correct label is now "Wealthy Casino Owners"... :lol:

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:59 pm
by jonesthecurl
PLAYER57832 wrote:
Anarkistsdream wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:I may be wrong, but as I understood it, most (or at least many) tribal names are names given to the tribe by either european settlers or other tribes - each tribe's name for itslef (as in most of the world) being simply "Us" or "People" or something similar, in their own language. I'm not sure if that's the case with the Apache. If so (ie if the APache have another name for themself), what is it? ANd would one Apache use it when speaking to another?



Well, even more convoluted is the fact that there were many types of Apache. I am Lipan Apache, but there are other variations.

Lipan is what we would call ourselves, but we were of a greater denomination that is Apache- due to where the tribe settled.

Lipan is also the variant of the language that would be spoken- I don't know any, so don't ask. ;)


And in some cases, those "same tribes" have historically "got along" about as well as the Scots and English did in the pre-Stewart days.


In some ways, the conquest of Amercia reminds me of the Roman conquest of Britain, or the norman one of Wales: in many cases the locals regarded the newcomer as just another tribe, one more option when allying against enemies. The newcomers saw all the locals as just locals, and exploited the tensions amongst them to further their own purposes.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:47 pm
by hiddendragon
We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices...


Hologram wrote:I like to call 'em redskinned savages, but that's just the 15th century European in me.


Seriously, though. Forget all this politically correct bullshit. Call them Indians, if you'd like. If you're afraid of confusing people with the red ones and the yellow ones then call them native american or whatever.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:50 pm
by Skittles!
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices..

I'd have to disagree. Yes, you were the supposedly first peoples in the land of the USA, but animals are the "True" Americans, as you so put it.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:50 pm
by jonesthecurl
Who's "we" in your case, dragon?

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:53 pm
by Skittles!
jonesthecurl wrote:Who's "we" in your case, dragon?

The ones that came up from South America.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:54 pm
by strike wolf
Skittles! wrote:
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices..

I'd have to disagree. Yes, you were the supposedly first peoples in the land of the USA, but animals are the "True" Americans, as you so put it.


Yeah, all you humans leave at once and give the land back to us wolves.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:55 pm
by Thor Son of Olaf
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices...


If the Europeans had left you to your own devices, you'd not be much further along than stone tools and animal hides.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:57 pm
by hiddendragon
supposedly first peoples in the land of the USA? we were here for over 14,000 years, all but a small fraction of the time we didn't have to share the land with the european settlers...most of you cowards love to offend but get your yellow-bellied selves to a reservation and you white would prefer compton to that expieriance...Nez Pierce is my tribe but I also have some cherokee and pueblo in my blood as well...you cowards aint swimming back yet?

Skittles! wrote:
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices..

I'd have to disagree. Yes, you were the supposedly first peoples in the land of the USA, but animals are the "True" Americans, as you so put it.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:58 pm
by strike wolf
If the Europeans had never come there would also be a lot more of them.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:58 pm
by jonesthecurl
Thor Son of Olaf wrote:
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices...


If the Europeans had left you to your own devices, you'd not be much further along than stone tools and animal hides.


the depth of your ignorance amazes me repeatedly.
It is your only talent.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:59 pm
by hiddendragon
better that then the shit that is here now...

Thor Son of Olaf wrote:
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices...


If the Europeans had left you to your own devices, you'd not be much further along than stone tools and animal hides.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:00 am
by hiddendragon
white-people are cowards...that is all there is too it...

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:00 am
by Skittles!
hiddendragon wrote:supposedly first peoples in the land of the USA? we were here for over 14,000 years, all but a small fraction of the time we didn't have to share the land with the european settlers...most of you cowards love to offend but get your yellow-bellied selves to a reservation and you white would prefer compton to that expieriance...Nez Pierce is my tribe but I also have some cherokee and pueblo in my blood as well...you cowards aint swimming back yet?

Skittles! wrote:
hiddendragon wrote:We are the TRUE AMERICANS, the rest of yous are invaders...get out of our country and use a couple of whites as floatation devices..

I'd have to disagree. Yes, you were the supposedly first peoples in the land of the USA, but animals are the "True" Americans, as you so put it.

I didn't mean to offend, sorry. That animal thing was joke though. What I was trying to say is that there might of been an earlier settlement of people living the USA, and that your and other Native American ancestors wiped them out.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:02 am
by pimpdave
hiddendragon wrote:white-people are cowards...that is all there is too it...


Don't underestimate your enemy. He is actually very brave, but generally only when in a mob of haters.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:03 am
by Skittles!
hiddendragon wrote:white-people are cowards...that is all there is too it...

Okay, f*ck. That got me angry.

You call White people cowards, and invaders. But it also the Native Americans that were cowards and invaders also. Your ancestors [as well as mine, but that's not in this context] wiped out people. Probably lots of tribes from the USA and Canada area were wiped out thousands of years ago. No "white" person could of done that, only the Native Americans. So before you start saying Europeans took all your lands and stuff [they did, but also not in this context] your ancestors took over peoples lands also.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:06 am
by pimpdave
That doesn't make it any less wrong for our ancestors to have taken their land.

Or give them any less reason to resent us.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:07 am
by hiddendragon
The clovis and folsom people could have integrated...it could have been a change in diet...how can one prove what one has no facts for...and Your pissed? I was hoping to find a happy conversation about Native American and find this shit...All this prejudice and from whom? white people...ya I said some shit but had some of you fools thought an iota before you spoke half the attrosities in history could have been averted...

Skittles! wrote:
hiddendragon wrote:white-people are cowards...that is all there is too it...

Okay, f*ck. That got me angry.

You call White people cowards, and invaders. But it also the Native Americans that were cowards and invaders also. Your ancestors [as well as mine, but that's not in this context] wiped out people. Probably lots of tribes from the USA and Canada area were wiped out thousands of years ago. No "white" person could of done that, only the Native Americans. So before you start saying Europeans took all your lands and stuff [they did, but also not in this context] your ancestors took over peoples lands also.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:15 am
by Skittles!
pimpdave wrote:That doesn't make it any less wrong for our ancestors to have taken their land.

Or give them any less right to resent us.

No, it doesn't. But, we are not the only invaders in the history of the earth. Europeans took their lands, their country. That was not right, and it will never ever be right to invades someone's land. To resent us, yes.

But to say we are invaders, the only invaders. Gets me cheesed off. We don't know what happened thousands of years ago on the continent of North and South America. But there was probably a few invasions of the same kind, but not devastation, that Europeans did to the native tribes.

hiddendragon wrote:and Your pissed? I was hoping to find a happy conversation about Native American and find this shit...All this prejudice and from whom? white people...ya I said some shit but had some of you fools thought an iota before you spoke half the attrosities in history could have been averted..

Europeans are horrible people, I must admit. I have to admit that. There is no compromise with that fact. I have never met a native American face-to-face, so I don't know how much pain and resentment they show towards Europeans. I wasn't trying to be prejudice, because I have no idea about North American history, specifically USA, other than the Revolution and when Europeans came.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:21 am
by muy_thaiguy
First of all hidden, to help avoid confusion, maybe put the quote first and then your response to it, yes? Second of all, people have been killing each other off for each other's lands. The Natives (I REALLY don't want to list all the tribes) were doing it to each other in both North and South America LONG before the "evil white devil came." In actuality, the natives here are still alive, not many other conquered people can say that (though I mean no offense by "conquered people"). And weren't some of your ancestors enemies? You may not be around if not for integration.

Re: "Native Americans"

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:23 am
by pimpdave
Please show where the Mohicans are. I'd like to meet one.


(and yeah, a whole big fucking list of others)