| Las Vegas - Active Shooter 07:50 - Oct 2 with 33263 views | 34dfgdf54 |
Horrendous scenes in Las Vegas. The videos make me feel sick, the amount of rounds being fired there is going to be a serious amount of casualties I think.
Terrible world we now live in. |  | | |  |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:18 - Oct 7 with 1044 views | Darran |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 20:47 - Oct 7 by Dr_Winston |
The white man slaughtered tens of thousands of Indians. And for Indians you could easily substitute the word Aboriginal, Native, Tribesman or any other noun for an inhabitant of land that Empire Builders wanted.
Quite often they were doing it themselves of course (apart from the Aborigines, they seemed quite peaceful) but it doesn't excuse that. |
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| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:29 - Oct 7 with 1018 views | Groo |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 20:38 - Oct 7 by theloneranger |
In 1763 Sir Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, wrote to Colonel Henry Bouquet at Fort Pitt:
“You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method, that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.”
Consequently, settlers spread smallpox to the Native Americans by distributing blankets previously owned by contagious patients.
“A war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct.”
— California Governor Peter H. Burnett, 1851 |
No doubt that this happened as an attempt to commit genocide during the 7 year war (or as the Americans call it the French and Indian war). At the time the chief who was the target was trying to unite the tribes over a large area against the British and the General was under siege. It was an isolated incident not accepted policy.
It's highly unlikely that this was the cause of the spread, smallpox was already ripe across the continent and the Indians had little natural defence against it, the possibility of spreading from items such as blankets was possible but unlikely.
Disease was killing the native populations from the time Columbus arrived, it became worse when the slave trade exploded as new diseases was brought across. |  |
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| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:35 - Oct 7 with 1007 views | Groo |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 20:47 - Oct 7 by Dr_Winston |
The white man slaughtered tens of thousands of Indians. And for Indians you could easily substitute the word Aboriginal, Native, Tribesman or any other noun for an inhabitant of land that Empire Builders wanted.
Quite often they were doing it themselves of course (apart from the Aborigines, they seemed quite peaceful) but it doesn't excuse that. |
The British were successful because they were mainly businessmen, they did everything for profit. In most cases the aboriginal people were needed to maintain profits but when they got in the way or heaven forbid, tried to interfere, that's when things got nasty.
The fur trade was big business and the aboriginal people were important in this.
After the 7 year war Britain was nearly bankrupt, hence the reluctance to fight the way west and the tax relief offered to the East Indian Company was in order to rebuild it, it was the biggest money earner. | |
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| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:36 - Oct 7 with 1005 views | Tummer_from_Texas |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 20:22 - Oct 7 by Groo |
One of the reasons (the biggest one in all probability) for the American Independence rebellion was never taxation as they claim, but the fact that the British restricted movement West after the 7 year war, which removed the French obstacle to expansion West.
After they won their Freedom the frontier opened up and they violently expanded. As Tummer said though, most deaths was from disease.
The Canadian expansion was the original blueprint by the British which was a more controlled expansion via treaties with the aboriginal peoples.
Quite a few moved North of the border, including Sitting Bull of General Custer fame and the Indians fought on the British side when the US invaded Canada in the in the early 19th Century. |
That was Meraki. I really don't know much about the subject of Native Americans, other than the fact that they get all kinds of special rights and privileges now, in the century I live in. Whatever happened to them and all the buffalo before that, my late-arriving Polish and Irish ancestors weren't involved. [Post edited 7 Oct 2017 21:37]
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| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:36 - Oct 7 with 1005 views | lifelong |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 14:51 - Oct 7 by theloneranger |
One of the main reasons for the demise of the Native American was the US Government's attempt to exterminate the buffalo!!
The massive slaughtering of buffalo in the 1800s worked to disconnect the animal from Native Americans. This had a substantial impact on Native people, physically as well as spiritually, emotionally, and mentally.
An estimated 31,000,000 buffalo were killed between the years of 1868 and 1881 with only 500 buffalo left by the year of 1885.
By the end of the 19th Century, the Native American population was only 237,000, down from one million a century earlier. |
I blame Buffalo Bill. |  | | |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 22:04 - Oct 7 with 970 views | theloneranger |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:36 - Oct 7 by lifelong |
I blame Buffalo Bill. |
Well he did kill 4000 in just 2 years.
Famous saying at the time was...
"For every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.” |  |
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| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 22:24 - Oct 7 with 945 views | exiledclaseboy |
| Las Vegas - Active Shooter on 21:36 - Oct 7 by Tummer_from_Texas |
That was Meraki. I really don't know much about the subject of Native Americans, other than the fact that they get all kinds of special rights and privileges now, in the century I live in. Whatever happened to them and all the buffalo before that, my late-arriving Polish and Irish ancestors weren't involved. [Post edited 7 Oct 2017 21:37]
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Wow. Bitter much. |  |
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