What indigenous peoples are we celebrating, and why? Why are all indigenous peoples lumped into one broad term when they were incredibly diverse in their lifestyles, linguistic groups, and traditions? How does one reconcile the fact that some groups actively and knowingly sold land to white settlers to enrich themselves with the notion of "stolen land" that the moronic Left uses as a catchphrase (not talking about the original sale of Manhattan for 24 guilders, but rather, the succeeding sales in the area after the Indians knew very well what European notions of property ownership entailed)? What about the fact that most "Indigenous Peoples" are no longer really "indigenous", but rather, mostly white people with some Indian blood raking in money from casinos on "tribal" land?
Nope that is the wrong phrasing of that quote. Richard Henry Pratt version was “Kill the Indian and Save the Man,” other people were the ones who called Indians savage.
...by destroying the systems that sustain the culture including the trades by which the culture sustain itself, for example destruction of bison as advocated by General Sherman (after the civil war) ... would both end conflict but also destroy the culture and thus as you put it the Indians become “white people” doing the same trades and with no wealth and thus were the lower classes of society when this occurred.
To destroy an alternative culture so one does not compete in conflict, nor allow a parallel culture to develop in peace.
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That is what happened, and now you do a no true scotsman saying there culture that developed in response to those acts (and a thousand other acts for cultures respond merely via living) is not a true culture, it is only a simulcra of white culture.
Do you care about what you are saying?
