I'm going to say something that will make me sound like an old fogey but which is nevertheless true and needs to be shouted from the rooftops: twenty and thirty something young people, the university educated ones, at least, are indeed the most savage people I've ever met, and I am indeed an old fogey who dealt with individuals from every social strata as a reporter and almost always found those people, especially the ones lower down on the social scale, to be far more decent than the vicious young snobs who presume to judge others in the harshest way possible, so that they will have a better seat at the table when the spoils are handed out.
Officialdom, the educational system and parents are most likely to have influenced them. Does not speak well for society does it? I too am an "old fogey".
Thank you again for an important Saturday morning post. I won't try to respond in detail - you've said it all! I will add:
1. The tide is certainly turning, and in large part due to the tireless work of folks like you who simply refuse to swallow the lies and consistently respond with Truth. There's no question that Normal People are increasingly turning away from the absurd stories that They are shouting 24/7/365 to try to shout us down. The MSM is simply not believed world-wide, and the Davosians this week are so clearly on the defensive that I can't help but grin.
2. I am of 100% English-Scot-Irish-German extraction, most of whom arrived on this side of the Atlantic in the 1600s, and I have had a strong sense of, well, something for/with indigenous folk since I was little. My university anthropology courses spread that interest worldwide. My consulting work gave me the opportunity in the '90s to work with tribal governments and other Native organizations engaged in cultural support for substance abusers all over the United States. Because I'm a dual Canadian/US citizen, and because four of my five great-grandsons (who live very close to you, Elizabeth) are Squamish Band members, I am deeply concerned with the evil lies that are being propagated against My People and my ancestors both sides of the border. That is ameliorated somewhat by my experience - that there are not a few in positions of influence in supporting and protecting Native culture in the Tribes and Bands who are well aware of the rank evil - and foolishness - of the Marxists (as one Navajo therapist put it, "the AIM, you know, Assholes in Moccasins?").
I bought a copy of Not Stolen when you first mentioned it early last month, and haven't gotten too far in it, but it seems Right On, and we must always remember that "the Truth shall make you free."
Please, everyone, "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" this post.
That same Navajo therapist gave me propers for feeling close to his culture without having to step over the line and claim to be a member of the "Chickadee Tribe" - he knew all about my being a first-generation BC hippie.
Our wonderful country has been smothered by the Left for decades upon decades. People just didn’t know it. Seemed pretty obvious time but I’m just a relative nobody! We will not come out of this mess in one piece unless we dissect how we got here. For me it started with the feminist rot of the 70s and then the BS discrimination of whites starting in the 80s which has led to this DEI crap! The normalization of gayness has now morphed into acceptance of trans everything! The feminization of men as a result will be our downfall!! Wake up people and fight back! Do not remain silent for you will not survive this by doing so. Our country and way of life is at stake!
Amazing article. I can't wait for Saturday morning to read what you've written, as as always, you didn't disappoint. My God, my stomach turns and hate wells up everytime I readabout the poison of the left. They are nothing but a big pus filled pimple on the ass of society, just needing to be popped.
Having lived amongst natives for more than a decade, having been granted some privilege to participate in traditional activities, and having worked with native organizations, but most importantly, individuals, most of what I run across in the media is pure hogwash regarding native orientation, which is founded as a culture of clan societies, towards others and property. But make no mistake; if the Feds, Canadians, or Yankees want to tell tales, spend money, and provide a donation that always finds its way into the pockets of the ruling families in the native societies and organizations, as the character Doc Holiday said in the movie, I am your huckleberry. As has always been the case in collectivist societies, only a very few see wealth. The natives who have broken free of “native organizations” and applied themselves to lifting themselves by talent, training, and effort have little regard for those on the generosity train. It looks as if the plantation brigade in the U.S. and Canada wants to put everyone on a plantation, er, reservation. Darn fine essay.
yes, if you are in the wrong family, you get nothing, you have to hitchhike to the hospital for cancer treatment as a friend's elderly uncle had to. It made me cry at the cruelty.
This set of myths is quite recent. Before 1968 normal historians were able to write the simple truth, though school curricula pushed the myths much earlier.
I grew up in Oklahoma where the myths were harder to believe, since the Cherokee had been running major businesses like Kerr-McGee and serving as politicians for a long time. The Cherokee had been prosperous plantation owners in Tennessee,. They brought their slaves into Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears and continued running prosperous cotton plantations.
Lived on Oahu for 8 years long ago in my life and remember the huge feathered cape and cap of the alii (nobility) in Honolulu's Bishop Museum which probably took thousands of birds just for those two items. So much of this entire "indigenous" worship is based upon Rousseau's idea of the "Noble Savage" which is the basis for this idolization.
My niece in Southern Calif was dating a nice Mexican kid who told me he was taking a course about indigenous people at a local junior college. I was curious, and asked him what the course was actually teaching. The term "stolen land" entered into the conversation. I asked him questions including this one, "Do you know why you speak Spanish?" He looked at me as if I was an alien from outer space. I suggested that his ancestors were not necessarily all natives of what is now Mexico and Central America. I started taking about the Conquistadors...and that Cortes, funded by the king and queen of Spain, brought a couple hundred African slaves with him. The kid's eyes were popping out, like he was listening to a crazy lady. I said, you can read about this on your own, do research on the internet. But be careful about what you share with your professor. She might be very angry if her student shows this kind of independent knowledge.
As you say, it wasn't all bad, and it wasn't all good; Aztecs were math geniuses but ate children killed in ritual sacrifice. I will definitely buy the recommended book, because this history is fascinating and it inoculates the reader from dumbthink. Elizabeth, reading you is always so rewarding. Always learn so much.
Will continue my quest to see that all my friends and colleagues are aware of your wonderful work. Your writing always crackles.
Elon Musk describes this madness, this Mass Formation Psychosis, as a mind virus and said that it "was piped to earth," and that it is "the end of civilization." I would believe it, for the people who promote this destructive nihilism are literally self-immolating and insane. Their goal is the literal destruction of the human race and the planet. We have to face the fact that a small percentage of the human race is psychotic and that they are -- temporarily -- running the show. But not for long!
elon musk didn't come up with the phrase mass formation psychosis. he just repeated it. mind virus is WETIKO,a term he also did not come up with. sigh.
I didn't say Musk came up with mass formation -- that's Mathias Desmet. I said he came up with the phrase "mind virus," but you are right, that phrase was originated by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene.
This is a fine article, but with all that said the Indian Removal Act signed by Jackson should never have happened - if it hadn't I wouldn't be typing this and the world would be different obviously - but it did happen and looking back aint it obvious - it ought not have?
yes, the book goes into that in some depth. Everyone fought it, tooth and nail, across the board - all the Emerson people, huge groups of women banded together to try to stop it , some say it was the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US - it was very very very unpopular and Martin Van Buren said he'd made a terrible mistake supporting it.
It is amazing in a way how things unfold - I mean I consider Jackson a "traitor" to his Cherokee brothers and sisters. I've been there in TN - the actual place they were together - how could he have done that?
Well, you must know - his wife -she was something else. I'd just assume been married to Dolly Madison....now she - was also something else and Madison - I like that diminutive fella - just as I do George Wythe.
Still - what happened next - I'll tell....Somebody by the name of Houston out of TN as well got some ambitions on Tejas....the rest is history.
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Great article you present here and I don't know - I think the states need to start asserting will over fed overreach - I think the time has come for some big changes - Jefferson was so wrong about timing on the Tree of Liberty, but heaven's to betsy he wasn't wrong about the tree and the blood flowing...
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Article V Action? - Is it even a possibility to have a "convention" when the document itself has essentially already metaphorically been ripped to shreds and burned?
Did you know indigenous land is being stolen right now? Yep right out here in Hawaii the town of Lahaina, which burned to the ground because uh?? Well never mind about that uh climate change definitely not unbelievable government incompetence... Anyway anyway, whitey is going to steal Lahaina, any minute now. But never fear! Our state government is here they are going to house every person affected by the fire, homeless, renters, homeowner no matter! Heck you don’t even have to be a resident - the state will house you so your land isn’t stolen. Except... oh gosh darn it, there’s no available housing oh no, what to do??? The state is the largest land owner, oh but we can’t open up land to evil developers my god they could white! Set up FEMA trailers? Oh heavens no. Don’t worry the state has a plan, they’re going to shut down all the vacation rentals, holding business and rental owners hostage, until the government’s housing demands are met. stealing their property rights and cratering the local economy for all of us. Thanks state of Hawaii!!
Thanks I just read your piece, I really appreciate your writing. weather manipulation isn’t necessary to explain the Lahaina fire, we get fires here all the time. Lahaina had a major fire when hurricane Lane went by a few years ago. The town also burned down before and was rebuilt in the early 1900’s. It was those buildings, now eaten by termites which burned so easily. And yeah that’s where the poor people were, old, infested buildings rent cheaper. The weather control is a distraction.
But our leaders were gone, all of them, conveniently. So was the water, gone and exit routes, all blocked. Kids were sent home, we don’t know if any are still missing.
The wild land within and surrounding all our towns is full of homeless campers. No DEW is needed just a crack head and match. Look the other way and it’s done.
They’re giving out awards to the police for their bravery on 8/8/23 and working hard to close down our economy by seizing people’s rental properties to ‘prevent’ a land grab.
“Hundreds of billions of dollars will be thrown away chasing that lie.”
I think more specifically that all that money will be grifted away to the usual wealthy suspects. Gates, Blackrock, Buffet, DNC, Solara, Pelosi. I guess that IS throwing it away after all. Never mind.
I haven't even finished experiencing the joy of this beautiful treasure of artful truth telling, Elizabeth, thank you so much for sharing your gift with us.
I don’t understand this, from point 6: “Europeans remain a minority in every region that had a dense settlement of indigenous people in 1491.” Where I live, New England, we have pretty few Indians, but lots of Europeans. But we know there were lots of Indans here in 1491 and, of course, no Europeans.
I don't really know how he deals with that fact. He was probably referring to south and central America and Mexico where there was a lot more agriculture and less hunting. Certainly my ancestor William Phelps bought his land from a Sachem in 1657 in the River colony. But settlements? Hard to quantify since they were not settled so much as being on the move - When I looked at upper NY State, and Mass in the Revolutionary years, the density was miniscule - literally endless forests empty. One Mohawk per 25,000.
Estimates vary wildly but the more credible ones I’ve seen put the population of pre-contact New England at about 80,000. The biggest population loss in the region was in the decade before 1620 due to disease.
By the mid-17th Century, there were roughly equal numbers of Indians and English, but population density of both groups varied from place to place. Puritans were generally quite scrupulous about paying for Indian land as they expanded along the coast and Connecticut River Valley, which was willingly sold and documented in colonial courts for European goods.
There were instances of targeted violence like the Pequot War, which resulted in dozens/hundreds of deaths and hundreds/thousands of enslavements, but there were only a handful of these and usually done in alliance with enemy tribes.
The biggest Indian population loss after that period was due to King Philip’s War, which started as a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Puritans, in which half the towns is Massachusetts were destroyed by an alliance of Indians who feared that long term demographic decline and dependence on European goods was making their traditional way of life untenable.
I don’t have an ideological axe to grind here, just trying to sum up the New England history I’ve gathered over the years in response to your initial comment.
Yes, see above regarding weather and agriculture. My Puritans paid for land, the first time it was four overcoats in 1657. Flynn-Paul carefully outlines the payments made and most Indian land was bought until the Trail of Tears. Of course four overcoats for downtown Windsor Connecticut is a deal now, but for that tribe, overcoats were probably an amazing trade in 1657. And Phelps was forced to pay twice for his farm because he hadn't the paper to make a record. So the church? I don't know.
I'm not sure of the source that Elizabeth used, but I know enough about New England that it wouldn't have supported anything like what we'd describe as a dense settlement of anyone using indigenous hunting and farming technology.
In 1491 there were a number of fairly urbanized areas on the Americas, mostly in what we now call Mexico and south of there. I'd call them pretty unambiguously densely settled, and folks like me, unambiguously and 100% (by DNA testing) European are certainly the minority there.
all designed to avert attention from modern day slavery in China & other leftist controlled hell holes. If communism is giving100% of your labor to the govt, what is slavery? What is being coerced into giving 40% of your labor to govt? Goes back to Goethe’s observation; “The triumph of despotism is to force the slaves to declare themselves free. It may need no force; the slaves may proclaim their freedom quite sincerely: but they are nonetheless slaves.” isn't the high tax rate in EVERY dimokkkrat/leftist run slum hole basically modern day slavery?
WATCH: Muslim Slave Trade Of Black Children in Algeria
I'm going to say something that will make me sound like an old fogey but which is nevertheless true and needs to be shouted from the rooftops: twenty and thirty something young people, the university educated ones, at least, are indeed the most savage people I've ever met, and I am indeed an old fogey who dealt with individuals from every social strata as a reporter and almost always found those people, especially the ones lower down on the social scale, to be far more decent than the vicious young snobs who presume to judge others in the harshest way possible, so that they will have a better seat at the table when the spoils are handed out.
Officialdom, the educational system and parents are most likely to have influenced them. Does not speak well for society does it? I too am an "old fogey".
They've internalized the "dog eat dog" ethos of our society all too well.
Thank you again for an important Saturday morning post. I won't try to respond in detail - you've said it all! I will add:
1. The tide is certainly turning, and in large part due to the tireless work of folks like you who simply refuse to swallow the lies and consistently respond with Truth. There's no question that Normal People are increasingly turning away from the absurd stories that They are shouting 24/7/365 to try to shout us down. The MSM is simply not believed world-wide, and the Davosians this week are so clearly on the defensive that I can't help but grin.
2. I am of 100% English-Scot-Irish-German extraction, most of whom arrived on this side of the Atlantic in the 1600s, and I have had a strong sense of, well, something for/with indigenous folk since I was little. My university anthropology courses spread that interest worldwide. My consulting work gave me the opportunity in the '90s to work with tribal governments and other Native organizations engaged in cultural support for substance abusers all over the United States. Because I'm a dual Canadian/US citizen, and because four of my five great-grandsons (who live very close to you, Elizabeth) are Squamish Band members, I am deeply concerned with the evil lies that are being propagated against My People and my ancestors both sides of the border. That is ameliorated somewhat by my experience - that there are not a few in positions of influence in supporting and protecting Native culture in the Tribes and Bands who are well aware of the rank evil - and foolishness - of the Marxists (as one Navajo therapist put it, "the AIM, you know, Assholes in Moccasins?").
I bought a copy of Not Stolen when you first mentioned it early last month, and haven't gotten too far in it, but it seems Right On, and we must always remember that "the Truth shall make you free."
Please, everyone, "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" this post.
That same Navajo therapist gave me propers for feeling close to his culture without having to step over the line and claim to be a member of the "Chickadee Tribe" - he knew all about my being a first-generation BC hippie.
Great post-- I am off to buy the book. Thanks for telling your story💗
Our wonderful country has been smothered by the Left for decades upon decades. People just didn’t know it. Seemed pretty obvious time but I’m just a relative nobody! We will not come out of this mess in one piece unless we dissect how we got here. For me it started with the feminist rot of the 70s and then the BS discrimination of whites starting in the 80s which has led to this DEI crap! The normalization of gayness has now morphed into acceptance of trans everything! The feminization of men as a result will be our downfall!! Wake up people and fight back! Do not remain silent for you will not survive this by doing so. Our country and way of life is at stake!
Amazing article. I can't wait for Saturday morning to read what you've written, as as always, you didn't disappoint. My God, my stomach turns and hate wells up everytime I readabout the poison of the left. They are nothing but a big pus filled pimple on the ass of society, just needing to be popped.
Having lived amongst natives for more than a decade, having been granted some privilege to participate in traditional activities, and having worked with native organizations, but most importantly, individuals, most of what I run across in the media is pure hogwash regarding native orientation, which is founded as a culture of clan societies, towards others and property. But make no mistake; if the Feds, Canadians, or Yankees want to tell tales, spend money, and provide a donation that always finds its way into the pockets of the ruling families in the native societies and organizations, as the character Doc Holiday said in the movie, I am your huckleberry. As has always been the case in collectivist societies, only a very few see wealth. The natives who have broken free of “native organizations” and applied themselves to lifting themselves by talent, training, and effort have little regard for those on the generosity train. It looks as if the plantation brigade in the U.S. and Canada wants to put everyone on a plantation, er, reservation. Darn fine essay.
yes, if you are in the wrong family, you get nothing, you have to hitchhike to the hospital for cancer treatment as a friend's elderly uncle had to. It made me cry at the cruelty.
This set of myths is quite recent. Before 1968 normal historians were able to write the simple truth, though school curricula pushed the myths much earlier.
I grew up in Oklahoma where the myths were harder to believe, since the Cherokee had been running major businesses like Kerr-McGee and serving as politicians for a long time. The Cherokee had been prosperous plantation owners in Tennessee,. They brought their slaves into Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears and continued running prosperous cotton plantations.
Lived on Oahu for 8 years long ago in my life and remember the huge feathered cape and cap of the alii (nobility) in Honolulu's Bishop Museum which probably took thousands of birds just for those two items. So much of this entire "indigenous" worship is based upon Rousseau's idea of the "Noble Savage" which is the basis for this idolization.
Richard Baker: In Ireland we thought "Noble Savage" referred to William of Orange and various English Kings, Queens, and Lords.
Ah, yes, it does depend one one's perspective, yes? Great reply, that.
My niece in Southern Calif was dating a nice Mexican kid who told me he was taking a course about indigenous people at a local junior college. I was curious, and asked him what the course was actually teaching. The term "stolen land" entered into the conversation. I asked him questions including this one, "Do you know why you speak Spanish?" He looked at me as if I was an alien from outer space. I suggested that his ancestors were not necessarily all natives of what is now Mexico and Central America. I started taking about the Conquistadors...and that Cortes, funded by the king and queen of Spain, brought a couple hundred African slaves with him. The kid's eyes were popping out, like he was listening to a crazy lady. I said, you can read about this on your own, do research on the internet. But be careful about what you share with your professor. She might be very angry if her student shows this kind of independent knowledge.
As you say, it wasn't all bad, and it wasn't all good; Aztecs were math geniuses but ate children killed in ritual sacrifice. I will definitely buy the recommended book, because this history is fascinating and it inoculates the reader from dumbthink. Elizabeth, reading you is always so rewarding. Always learn so much.
Will continue my quest to see that all my friends and colleagues are aware of your wonderful work. Your writing always crackles.
I so appreciate it Debra. xxx
Love this line -- SO TRUE
See? Step up and things change. Without you, nothing will. Yes, you. Neither effort is dead dead, just dead until they reckon they can try again.
💗💗 we ALL need to step up in any way we can
That was my favorite part too.
Elon Musk describes this madness, this Mass Formation Psychosis, as a mind virus and said that it "was piped to earth," and that it is "the end of civilization." I would believe it, for the people who promote this destructive nihilism are literally self-immolating and insane. Their goal is the literal destruction of the human race and the planet. We have to face the fact that a small percentage of the human race is psychotic and that they are -- temporarily -- running the show. But not for long!
elon musk didn't come up with the phrase mass formation psychosis. he just repeated it. mind virus is WETIKO,a term he also did not come up with. sigh.
I didn't say Musk came up with mass formation -- that's Mathias Desmet. I said he came up with the phrase "mind virus," but you are right, that phrase was originated by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene.
This is a fine article, but with all that said the Indian Removal Act signed by Jackson should never have happened - if it hadn't I wouldn't be typing this and the world would be different obviously - but it did happen and looking back aint it obvious - it ought not have?
yes, the book goes into that in some depth. Everyone fought it, tooth and nail, across the board - all the Emerson people, huge groups of women banded together to try to stop it , some say it was the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US - it was very very very unpopular and Martin Van Buren said he'd made a terrible mistake supporting it.
It is amazing in a way how things unfold - I mean I consider Jackson a "traitor" to his Cherokee brothers and sisters. I've been there in TN - the actual place they were together - how could he have done that?
Well, you must know - his wife -she was something else. I'd just assume been married to Dolly Madison....now she - was also something else and Madison - I like that diminutive fella - just as I do George Wythe.
Still - what happened next - I'll tell....Somebody by the name of Houston out of TN as well got some ambitions on Tejas....the rest is history.
~
Great article you present here and I don't know - I think the states need to start asserting will over fed overreach - I think the time has come for some big changes - Jefferson was so wrong about timing on the Tree of Liberty, but heaven's to betsy he wasn't wrong about the tree and the blood flowing...
~
Article V Action? - Is it even a possibility to have a "convention" when the document itself has essentially already metaphorically been ripped to shreds and burned?
BK
Did you know indigenous land is being stolen right now? Yep right out here in Hawaii the town of Lahaina, which burned to the ground because uh?? Well never mind about that uh climate change definitely not unbelievable government incompetence... Anyway anyway, whitey is going to steal Lahaina, any minute now. But never fear! Our state government is here they are going to house every person affected by the fire, homeless, renters, homeowner no matter! Heck you don’t even have to be a resident - the state will house you so your land isn’t stolen. Except... oh gosh darn it, there’s no available housing oh no, what to do??? The state is the largest land owner, oh but we can’t open up land to evil developers my god they could white! Set up FEMA trailers? Oh heavens no. Don’t worry the state has a plan, they’re going to shut down all the vacation rentals, holding business and rental owners hostage, until the government’s housing demands are met. stealing their property rights and cratering the local economy for all of us. Thanks state of Hawaii!!
Yes, I've written about it.
Thanks I just read your piece, I really appreciate your writing. weather manipulation isn’t necessary to explain the Lahaina fire, we get fires here all the time. Lahaina had a major fire when hurricane Lane went by a few years ago. The town also burned down before and was rebuilt in the early 1900’s. It was those buildings, now eaten by termites which burned so easily. And yeah that’s where the poor people were, old, infested buildings rent cheaper. The weather control is a distraction.
But our leaders were gone, all of them, conveniently. So was the water, gone and exit routes, all blocked. Kids were sent home, we don’t know if any are still missing.
The wild land within and surrounding all our towns is full of homeless campers. No DEW is needed just a crack head and match. Look the other way and it’s done.
They’re giving out awards to the police for their bravery on 8/8/23 and working hard to close down our economy by seizing people’s rental properties to ‘prevent’ a land grab.
Heidi: Hawaii is run by radical leftists. It's worse than California.
“Hundreds of billions of dollars will be thrown away chasing that lie.”
I think more specifically that all that money will be grifted away to the usual wealthy suspects. Gates, Blackrock, Buffet, DNC, Solara, Pelosi. I guess that IS throwing it away after all. Never mind.
I haven't even finished experiencing the joy of this beautiful treasure of artful truth telling, Elizabeth, thank you so much for sharing your gift with us.
You sparkle with sincerely brilliant honesty.
I don’t understand this, from point 6: “Europeans remain a minority in every region that had a dense settlement of indigenous people in 1491.” Where I live, New England, we have pretty few Indians, but lots of Europeans. But we know there were lots of Indans here in 1491 and, of course, no Europeans.
I don't really know how he deals with that fact. He was probably referring to south and central America and Mexico where there was a lot more agriculture and less hunting. Certainly my ancestor William Phelps bought his land from a Sachem in 1657 in the River colony. But settlements? Hard to quantify since they were not settled so much as being on the move - When I looked at upper NY State, and Mass in the Revolutionary years, the density was miniscule - literally endless forests empty. One Mohawk per 25,000.
Estimates vary wildly but the more credible ones I’ve seen put the population of pre-contact New England at about 80,000. The biggest population loss in the region was in the decade before 1620 due to disease.
By the mid-17th Century, there were roughly equal numbers of Indians and English, but population density of both groups varied from place to place. Puritans were generally quite scrupulous about paying for Indian land as they expanded along the coast and Connecticut River Valley, which was willingly sold and documented in colonial courts for European goods.
There were instances of targeted violence like the Pequot War, which resulted in dozens/hundreds of deaths and hundreds/thousands of enslavements, but there were only a handful of these and usually done in alliance with enemy tribes.
The biggest Indian population loss after that period was due to King Philip’s War, which started as a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Puritans, in which half the towns is Massachusetts were destroyed by an alliance of Indians who feared that long term demographic decline and dependence on European goods was making their traditional way of life untenable.
I don’t have an ideological axe to grind here, just trying to sum up the New England history I’ve gathered over the years in response to your initial comment.
Yes, see above regarding weather and agriculture. My Puritans paid for land, the first time it was four overcoats in 1657. Flynn-Paul carefully outlines the payments made and most Indian land was bought until the Trail of Tears. Of course four overcoats for downtown Windsor Connecticut is a deal now, but for that tribe, overcoats were probably an amazing trade in 1657. And Phelps was forced to pay twice for his farm because he hadn't the paper to make a record. So the church? I don't know.
I'm not sure of the source that Elizabeth used, but I know enough about New England that it wouldn't have supported anything like what we'd describe as a dense settlement of anyone using indigenous hunting and farming technology.
yes, see above - settlements were reserved for regions without those little ice age winters.
I guess it all depends on how we are defining “dense settlement” in 1491.
In 1491 there were a number of fairly urbanized areas on the Americas, mostly in what we now call Mexico and south of there. I'd call them pretty unambiguously densely settled, and folks like me, unambiguously and 100% (by DNA testing) European are certainly the minority there.
it could be dense if they were farming, which was rare in the north-east.
all designed to avert attention from modern day slavery in China & other leftist controlled hell holes. If communism is giving100% of your labor to the govt, what is slavery? What is being coerced into giving 40% of your labor to govt? Goes back to Goethe’s observation; “The triumph of despotism is to force the slaves to declare themselves free. It may need no force; the slaves may proclaim their freedom quite sincerely: but they are nonetheless slaves.” isn't the high tax rate in EVERY dimokkkrat/leftist run slum hole basically modern day slavery?
WATCH: Muslim Slave Trade Of Black Children in Algeria
https://gellerreport.com/2024/01/watch-muslim-slave-trade-of-black-children-in-algeria.html/?lctg=45254690
I agree