What Is Your Heredity?

Exactly, how can you be a proud member of the United States killing machine, saving the world from all the wrong doings if your history started out killing the inocent.

 

When it comes to being a work of historical science, the book leaves a lot to be desired. Dee Brown doesn't do a very good job of siting sources for her so-called "facts".

 

Another history novice.

 

no american native indians ever invaded anyone elses nation and massacred them.all they ever did was fight back in self defence.

 

Except when they were warring with each other.

 

no, another proud surviver of a wonderful tribal nation.thats what jo is. ye did'nt manage ta kill all the indians.

 

My heritage is mixed.

 

:iagree: america should be very proud to have you for one of their citizens lyn.:love: x

 

my heritage is Caveman

 

that was a good book


good thing they made of a movie or id have never known the story

 

whats the mixture ?

 

you should read again,as part of our cultural heritage in the 1930s was an economic war with britain. the 1930s was a very hard time for a lot of people.it was from that context he was speaking.

 

i never read it

i watched the movie and just heard it was based on the book

 

well if ya never read it what are you saying tis a good book for ? as for a good book, i think a good book is always better than the movies made from them. so what country or countries were your ancesteral caves in ?

 

because the movie was good..so the book had to be good

just like papillon


dont know about the caves...they died before i could ask them where they were

 

ha! ha! well if they ever resurrect again you can let me their ancestry and heritage.don't know that movie.but we have dogs called papillions. there small little dogs,like terriers.maybe the movie name an dogs name is connected.i'll check out the movie when i get time

 

I actually own a copy of this book...never read it yet lol

seen the movie over 20 times


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Charrière

 

I understand that if you hear the words indian or early european colony in america you think of they being massacred, manifest destiny etc. but we were talking about a time before manifest destiny was on the white colonists minds or that massacres/battles were exclusively won by one side and that's why I said you are talking in clichés about the overall american indian decline. I'm not saying your post about native americans is not true, you just took it out of context of what we were talking about in the first place.

You seem to have a problem anyway with fitting historical events and ideas in the later and current state of affairs (or as in this particular case, unable to focus on the original state of affairs). If you are able to accept some well ment criticism you might want to take a notice of that.

 

Exactly. Tribes were warring against each other long before any European set foot on the shores of North America.

 

North America was made up of many distinct Aboriginal Nations before the Europeans arrived. That's why we, in Canada at least, refer to them as First Nations people.

The myth that they were completely peaceful people is wrong - they engaged in raids and battles with each other long before (and after) the Europeans arrived.