What Is Your Heredity?

We would all do well to also keep in mind that for the most part, North American indigenous peoples did not keep any written history, so we are relegated to relying for the most on the history as told from the perspective of their conquers.

That has both positive and negative ramifications concerning our present day romanticized image of both parties concerned.
Make of it what you will.





personally, I'm now conflicted being of both English and Native American descent....
should I scalp myself or give myself smallpox

 

actually its eleven hundred years.

 

He didn't live there

You never go wrong with scalping yourself! As I understand the scalping practicing was copied by the 'indians' from the colonists who at one time got payed for killing natives. To prove that they actually killed them they'd take the indian's scalp and show it to get the reward.

I wasn't talking about you But anyway like I said if you are just born into it and not even maintain it the pride is technically misplaced. Go around and proclaiming that you are royalty is not maintaining or adding to the legacy by the way.

 

Gotta love all the faux history in this thread....

 

disgusting....

 

It worked both ways.
"In Acadia and Nova Scotia, both the British and Wabanaki Confederacy engaged in frontier warfare or total war, that is, both sides of the conflict repeatedly killed combatants and non-combatants.[17] While the British paid the New England Rangers for Mi'kmaq scalps, the French paid members of the Wabanaki Confederacy for British scalps.[18]"

Edward Cornwallis was a genocide filled bastage.
The history of the French/English/Acadie usually makes me wish the French had won.

 

Why the French?

 

And you wish to form a global community with these wing nuts?

 

Scots-Irish, Huguenot, English (maybe) and Cherokee Indian.

 

the huguenot people were french aery.

 

i merely responed to a thread.the title is what is your heritage.i have no misplaced pride whatsover.my pride in my ancestry and heritage is genuine pride.

 

yes i agree, it was a disgusting thing for the birtish to start scalping indians.

 

it's like you're not even trying to hide your ignorance anymore.

 

For one, they were a lot better at getting along with the locals than the British were.

This is strange, I actually had a lecture this morning talking about this very topic.

 

How can you take pride in something you cannot even prove? You're no more irish royalty than I am a long lost emperor of China.

 

Fair enough. I'm still glad the Brits came out on top in North America though.