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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Many indigenous tribes actually had some really great innovations in warfare and turning it into a less lethal and for lack of a better term more sportsmanlike competition. The whole idea that they were just as bad as their conquerors is just more colonizer apologia.

They "lost" because the colonizers were far more inhumane than they were and once they changed tactics and fought on equal footing they kicked the shit out of them, at which point the colonizer turned even more genocidal targetting noncombatants and famously food sources like buffalo.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

There were also several competing tribes in the California area that used competitive crafting as a substitute for warfare. It was a massive flex to make the best stuff during these scheduled gatherings and gift the winning pieces to rivals to resolve disputes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Matt Walsh should be :barbara-pit: . What a piece of fucking shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When white sellers got here nobody lived year round on Manhattan because it was an unbelievable paradise all the tribes agreed to share openly and freely.

The reason the natives "accepted" all those terrible deals is because a lot of them didn't have the concept of owning land.

Imagine of some guy came up to you and was like

"that's a really nice public park you've got there, can I give you $20 to use it."

And youw are just like "uh that's really not necessary it's publ8c space anybody can use it but thanks for the gesture i guess"

And then the next day he came back with his friends and shot everybody in the park and said it was theirs now because you sold it to him.

The iroquois had a confederacy that was a good portion of the east coast that sent representatives to settle disputes over territory and hunting rights.

These people are full of shit and one of the most vile kinds of racists.

Of course appeals to decency, humanity, or reason don't work on these fucks so I prefer to just continue their train of thought.

Clarify that it would be fine for you to murder them and their family and then take their home because other people did it before so it's fine.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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