From: mel (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 04:37:12 GMT
Hello All...
Pardon my butting in, but one thing to keep
in mind regarding counts on them pesky
injuns...In a very real way the Indians
"killed" more Indians in the 19th/20th
centuries than the whites did.
Discovered this when looking into my own
family background. Any Indian who leaves
the "traditional way" is considered "white"
by the traditionals. Kansas alone has a
good three to five times more Indians than
Census will ever count. The Indian
citizenship acts often made whole tribes
disappear. In other states as well, the
"civilized" Indians learned to farm the same
ground and went to the same denominational
churches, bore the same last names... their
children moved to new places, passed for white
and hid their backgrounds until their grandkids
new no different than that they were white.
The folks who toss the numbers don't tend to
follow that line, as it is too hard to trace.
Food for thought...
thanks--mel
<snip>
>
> > > When you explain to them why Uncle Sam killed 10 million native
American
> > > Indians. Or why Uncle Sam enslaved, tortured and considered
"blacks" (and
> > > Indians) as sub-humans in their "All Men Are Created Equal"
nation?
> >
> >Where on earth did you get 10 million Indians from much less killing
that
> >many? And have you explained to the kiddies that the horrible
Christian
> >white man abolished slavery many generations ago while black Muslims
in
> >Africa are currently slaughtering Christian blacks by the thousands?
>
> Best estimates place the pre-Columbus populations of NA Indians at
between
> 5-15 million (you can guess who says 5 and who says 15). Around 1900
the
> populations was estimated to be around 250,000. Current census taking
shows
> a population around 2 million in 1990 (and estimates a huge population
> growth since, placing the current estimate at around 4 million-- some
> dispute this due to tribes taking in people claiming as little as 1/13
> heritage). I took a middle ground with these figures, say a
pre-Columbus
> population of 10 million, which was reduced to a quater of a million
by 1900.
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