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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:24 AM Original message |
How exactly did we "Tame the West" or did we even do that? |
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HeeBGBz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. Massacreed all the native peeps |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. they killed as many Indians as possible - they were 'pacified' |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
3. Genocide is the term most applicable. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Yep. |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. The "wild west" was mostly a fiction; the stuff of novels and sensationalism. |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. They killed all of the native brown people, just like they're trying to do in Iraq |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. You left out that what really defeated the native americans was the killing of the |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:48 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. did more than 125,000 starve at one time? |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. It's not so much a question of time as in the long term starvation killed more and made it |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Good points. It's still an atrocity any way you slice it though. n/t |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 12:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. and contaminates in our food supply seems to be a similar thing |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:37 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Hey, great point havocmom. |
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bluerum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
6. Don't foget all those nasty stinky buffalo hoarding all those pelts for themselves. |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. Transportation Infrastructure |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
9. Remember conservatives remember the past differently then what history has proven as |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Those six shooters were heavy buggers |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:32 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. yes, my mother had her father's pistol he used in the Spanish/american war |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
10. killed Natives and destroyed their culture |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:29 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. History merely repeats itself. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. Killed off the native population, killed off the criminal element that had |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:35 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Actually framers were better shots because they also sent their sons off to hunt |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I'm not saying that farmers were or were not bad shots. Surely not ALL of them were deadeyes. |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Sorry wasn't trying to nit pick your post, was just trying to put things into historical facts, |
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cssmall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
16. The West was "Won" |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:32 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. It's not even "our" model |
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cssmall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-13-07 11:36 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. We perfected it. |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
27. Women said behave yourselves or you ain't getting any! |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. 27 replies so far and not one really addressed your point, I guess it went over their heads |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
29. Rounded up the 'locals' and put them in concentration camps....I mean resevations. |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
30. Gun laws were marginally effective |
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