From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 19:39:57 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>
>>Actually, it comes down to genocide and a long and disgraceful
>>record of broken agreements made with Native Americans. The
>>entire land-ownership thing is white man thinking and irrelevant
>>to the real damage done.
>
>
> Now Samantha, before you go off on your liberal white horse lets
> be very clear that there is a difference between "active" genocide
> and "passive" genocide. Much of the decline in population of the
> American natives was passive rather than active. Europeans came
> to America, they brought their diseases against which there was
> little natural immunity, and a great deal of death resulted.
Go read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" if you haven't already. Then we
will talk.
- samantha
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