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Thread #107204   Message #2221848
Posted By: bankley
24-Dec-07 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: One Dead Indian - CTV movie
Subject: RE: BS: One Dead Indian - CTV movie
Amen to that, Sandy. The title was likely taken from the quote, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" from the latter 1800's when U.S. Gen. Miles, was rounding up and/or killing 'hostiles'. Interesting that Natives in the 13 Colonies, were probably the first casualties of the War on Terror. The Declaration of Independence,(July 04/1776) is basically a list of grievances concerning King George..... one being
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

.....That pretty well set the tone for what followed.

Meanwhile, while we're on such a broad and sad subject, I'm still waiting for the Cdn. Govt. to pardon Metis leader Louis Riel and, further, finally recognize him as one of the Fathers of Confederation. (Manitoba). He was elected MP but could not take his seat in Ottawa, because there was a death bounty on his head, placed there by the Orange Lodge, which ran the show in those parts. John A. MacDonald was an Orangeman. Louis was later executed for treason for his part in the Northwest Rebellion, which was really a war of resistance.