Should I Become A Native American

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
You're entitled to a peice of what was stolen from your ancestors.

Only if you get that piece from those who actually stole it.

Or once we settle up with the Amerinds, they can start fighting themselves to get back what they stole from each other.

I'm gonna use my 1/8 Scottish heritage to demand recompense from the British for...well, something, I'm sure.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Only if you get that piece from those who actually stole it.

Or once we settle up with the Amerinds, they can start fighting themselves to get back what they stole from each other.

I'm gonna use my 1/8 Scottish heritage to demand recompense from the British for...well, something, I'm sure.

As a Mormon, am I also entitled to land compensation in Independence, Far West, Nauvoo and a couple of other locations?

[Imran Siddiqui]

In which JohnT starts channeling the spirit of TCO...

TCO would NEVER say QED

including some respect and concern for the Indians at least as far back as the Jefferson administration.

Even farther, if you consider the colony of Rhode Island and before that Providence Plantation, both headed by Roger Williams who believed the natives to be the root of the land they were using as exile. He even learned the languages of the tribes around the area. They repayed the favor when Massachusetts Bay tried to stamp out Williams' society.

I'm gonna use my 1/8 Scottish heritage to demand recompense from the British for...well, something, I'm sure.

For William Wallace?

[Zkribbler]

Re: Should I Become A Native American

Originally posted by Sprayber
I have enough to become a member of the Cherokee tribe.

Egad. I'm 1/128 Cherokee myself. Maybe we're related.

[The Mad Monk]

One eighth Cherokee. *waves*

I would never have known my grandmother was half cherokee if someone hadn't told me, and certainly no one could tell from my quarter cherokee father, or her other five children. Culturally, they were all lower middle class white southern New Jerseyans (grandfather worked at the Philadelphia Naval Yards).

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by MrFun
Again, just to make sure people understand -- Amerindians do not receive "freestuff" -- it's material compensation for their territorial losses.

If we conceed this point, can we get on with the thread?

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Egad. I'm 1/128 Cherokee myself. Maybe we're related

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