There were a lot more Natives than you’d think; enough to kick some serious viking ass the first few times they tried setting up shop here, and we all know how badass they were. Western Euros just happened to have the good fortune to show up shortly after a fresh, slate-washing plague.
According to this Cracked article, the Native American population was around 20-100 million before European settlement, so it might not be so ridiculous to assume that the numbers were that high. There’s no way to possibly tell for sure.
Ok…and your link has nothing to do with the quote, the statistics contained within or anything other than a history of the term “two-spirit”. So…my statements still stand reguardless of whether I hold to the factuality of wikipedia or not.
I’m all for same-sex marriage, but that’s pretty much a lot of what I studied in Uni, and I know they tended to have gay and androgynous people working as shamans/medicine makers, etc, and were pretty tolerant, but I never ran into any indication that same-sex marriage was that common.
It really bugs me when people twist history for political reasons. The left is just as bad as the right for that.
Too bad they wasted all that time instead of working on developing muskets and inventing gunpowder.
DrEvil (#)
11 years ago
Somebody watched “Little Big Man” or some other bullshit movie that mentioned gay Indians and the next thing you know Geronimo was married to Crazy Horse.
Source?
HEY….IM A THUG
I saw it on r/atheism, but I don’t know it’s original source
Millions,eh?
There were a lot more Natives than you’d think; enough to kick some serious viking ass the first few times they tried setting up shop here, and we all know how badass they were. Western Euros just happened to have the good fortune to show up shortly after a fresh, slate-washing plague.
According to this Cracked article, the Native American population was around 20-100 million before European settlement, so it might not be so ridiculous to assume that the numbers were that high. There’s no way to possibly tell for sure.
www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america.html
I’m not buying it. No source for the quote. No proof of the statement. No records were kept for that kind of information.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_spirit
Unless you’re one of those weird intellectuals where wikipedia isn’t a legit source of information.
Ok…and your link has nothing to do with the quote, the statistics contained within or anything other than a history of the term “two-spirit”. So…my statements still stand reguardless of whether I hold to the factuality of wikipedia or not.
Ah… I see. You’re one of “those” types.
Carry on.
I’m all for same-sex marriage, but that’s pretty much a lot of what I studied in Uni, and I know they tended to have gay and androgynous people working as shamans/medicine makers, etc, and were pretty tolerant, but I never ran into any indication that same-sex marriage was that common.
It really bugs me when people twist history for political reasons. The left is just as bad as the right for that.
Too bad they wasted all that time instead of working on developing muskets and inventing gunpowder.
Somebody watched “Little Big Man” or some other bullshit movie that mentioned gay Indians and the next thing you know Geronimo was married to Crazy Horse.