People Are Outraged That I’m Speaking The Truth About America’s Origins

I'm cancelling my wife's family. I chose to go to her parent's house on Thanksgiving only to hear about her Aunt who doesn't celebrate because, "We're not going to celebrate European colonization." I was the only one there that's part Native American, and I love Thanksgiving. Hearing some priviliged white woman lecture me on my favorite holiday was pretty much the last straw for me. It pisses me off that they keep ignoring history and/or rewrite it any chance they get. A lot of the natives were always allies with the settlers. Thanksgiving is a celebration of the friendship and appreciation settlers had for natives. The tribes were enemies with other tribes. They act like all Native Americans were the same. And they were all victims of the white man. It's absolutely BS. Now I think the Spanish settlers was a different story. But instead of trying to actually learn what happened, it's easier to boil down 500 years of history to just racism and white supremacy. Nevermind the Africans who sold slaves to the white men, nevermind the brutality of some of the native tribes, nevermind all of the progress we have made. These assholes will never be happy. When they get what they want, they find something else to complain about, and it never ends. Nevermind they want to use the illegal immigrants in the same way they used slaves. Nevermind it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and the Democrats who started the Civil War because they knew Lincoln was opposed to slavery. Facts don't matter anymore because they live in a fantasy world.

This is why we needed to defund the Dept. Of Education!

I am a Blackfoot from Canada, I totally agree with you, in fact I often get tired of the misinformation that is spread among our own people. We have individuals that strongly believe we were a peaceful tribe when in reality we had most of, what is now Alberta and Montana, conquered. There was slavery, there was scalping, there was barbaric acts to win battles. It was a mess. Nowadays we actually have people that will say it is all "the lie of the white man" when there is even documented journals of settlers who witnessed these acts. I, like many others just want to learn the truth and move on and grow, however there is a large group that is misinforming a lot of the youth making them think we are oppressed, which in return keeps us in an endless cycle and a victim complex that we really need to get passed.

My dad worked for the federal government at the start of all this let's make minorities feel good about themselves. It started in the 70's. He had to attend what we would call diversity training at one of the air force bases. They were told that the indians were just as advanced as the white people, when the white people showed up. I remember him coming home and asking how stupid did the presenters of this slide show think they were?

Walsh dismantling the Noble savage myth.

Damn he roasted the shit out of Keith. Like Wow. Even Matt was suprised.

"You could travel for weeks or months without ever seeing another human" -sounds like paradise 😊

I went Army to flight school with a young woman who was a registered Lakota. Her father grew up on the reservation, but left to join the Army. Afterward he used his benefits to get a degree, commissioned into the Nebraska Army National Guard as an officer, rose to the rank of a full bird colonel, was a successful rancher, led his men in combat in Iraq, was wounded, came back, ran and was elected to the Nebraska state senate. He was a wildly successful man. I asked her if she regretted not being raised on the reservation. She said "why would I want to live there? All they do is sit around miserable and waiting for their next government check. All they have to do is leave and the whole world is there for them." She then proceeded to teach me a bit about her people, their proud military tradition both as enemies and then as citizens of the US. She was unabashedly patriotic. That really struck me. She was proud of her heritage, and saw it not in opposition to the American story, but rather as a part of it. She's probably the most American woman I've ever met. After getting to know her a while I said, "I'd kill people with you," she put her hands to her chest and said it was one of the sweetest things anyone had ever said to her. I wish more were like her.

My grandfather came here worked for a company founded by a German immigrant in a Northern city that never had slavery.

These people need to open a history book