A modest proposal:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

To the contemporary white supremacists who pro-claim themselves "pro-"legal" immigration".

I believe you are all aware, gentlemen, that the establishments of the two foreign encroachments by the barbarians termed Jamestown and Plymouth was quite illegal. The Americans never made such deals with those foreigners who were buying our land and taking our women. Yet nowadays the descendants of these illegal immigrants propose to remove the descendants of other illegal immigrants. I propose a fair and equitable trade: since the first group of illegal immigrants took land both from we Americans and the Spaniard interlopers, I suggest that in the interest of America for the Americans, we establish a united polity of Indigenous peoples, and sue to have these illegal immigrants and their descendants removed.

These men came in, took food from us and took our jobs. They did this in perfect ill-faith, and I believe, O spirits from Beyond the Grave that we can outdo Montezuma and the Diarrhea of Doom in revenging ourselves. Who's with me?

-Your obedient servant,

Tecumseh-

Comments

[mrsilence.livejournal.com]

True, the fault would lay with they who determined whether the doors would be open or closed.

[drcruel.livejournal.com]

Yeah...and it's not like there was anybody here when we white folk discovered America.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

Well, gee, we provided them with palatial homes in scenic reservations, didn't we? And gave them whiskey and blankets... OK, the blankets had some germs on them... nobody's perfect.

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

die, die again......and again, and again

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I'm saying that Indians would not have had a common identity at the time of the contact. And neither did Europeans. The early wars were Castilians v. Taino, for instance. The idea of a war between Europe and America as opposites as a whole took centuries to evolve.

Re: Too bad you're wrong again

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The Apaches would have been the source of the greater conflicts, as the Navajo settled down and assimilated into the broader culture where the Apaches targeted *everybody.*

Ah....

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Most of my "knowledge" comes from background in the Tony Hillerman novels, and what little research I've done based on interest derived from them. Unlike you I don't seem to retain all that I learn :D. (fortunately I'm learning how to navigate on the computer, and when I have time I will look things up rather than ask)

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Only when the topic is not intimately tied to his self-identity or possibly just something he cares much about.

[root-fu.livejournal.com]

Hm. Are you really part native-american?

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it wasn't snarky OR condescending :D

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day ;)