I found a discussion about this tweet on my substack. So I had to settle for a screen shot over a direct link to the tweet, I don't have X. And I didn't notice the date until after I posted.
Still it's quite the claim that Native Americans did no bad things until whitey infected them.
Some rare ones were. In my parts (Manitoba) We had a Chief Peguis back in the 1860's. Several tribes were sick of the Whites building settlements on prime land & were planning to wipe them out. Chief Peguis talked them out of it saying how that would be evil & stuff.
Straight-up good guy, so history says anyhow.
I found a discussion about this tweet on my substack. So I had to settle for a screen shot over a direct link to the tweet, I don't have X. And I didn't notice the date until after I posted.
Still it's quite the claim that Native Americans did no bad things until whitey infected them.
And yes she is an early lifer
Noble savage myth
Not a myth, but a trope. In this case the exception proves the rule. They are all savages.
But none are noble so myth
Some rare ones were. In my parts (Manitoba) We had a Chief Peguis back in the 1860's. Several tribes were sick of the Whites building settlements on prime land & were planning to wipe them out. Chief Peguis talked them out of it saying how that would be evil & stuff.
Straight-up good guy, so history says anyhow.