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Everything the Kiowas had came from the buffalo . . . . The buffalo were the life of the Kiowa . . . . The buffalo loved their people as much as the Kiowas loved them . . . . So when the white man wanted to build railroads, or when they wanted to farm and raise cattle, the buffalo protected the Kiowa. They tore up the railroad tracks and the gardens. They chased the cattle off the ranges. Then the white man hired hunters to do nothing but kill the buffalo. Up and down the plain these men ranged, shooting sometimes as many as a hundred buffalo a day. Behind them came skinners with their wagons. They piled the hides . . . into the wagons until they were full and then took their loads to the new railroad stations that were being built, to be shipped east to the market. The buffalo saw that their day was over. They could protect their people no longer. Sadly, the last remnant of the great herd gathered in council, and decided what they would do. Straight to Mount Scott the leader of the herd walked. Behind him came the cows and their calves, and the few young males who had survived. As the woman watched, the face of the mountain opened. Inside Mount Scott the world was green and fresh, as it had been when she was a small girl. The rivers ran clear, not red. The wild plums were in blossom, chasing the redbuds up the inside slopes. Into this world of beauty, the buffalo walked never to be seen again. --Old Lady Horse (Kiowa), n.d. as told to Alice Marriott, from American Indian Mythologies by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin, New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1968 |
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02-24-2016, 06:10 AM | #46 |
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See. Even the Indians agree. The current pc account I feel insults the Indians making them look like poor weak gentile people that whitey killed. The reality wad they were a fierce group of warriors too that used hit and run tactics for the first time and often had the upper hand for centuries.
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I thought it was still common knowledge these days that the buffalo were killed deliberately as a control mechanism to allow the gov't to confine bands/tribes to reservations and create a state of complete dependency on the dole. I wouldn't be surprised now that I think about it that these things are no longer taught in (at least, public) high schools any more. The Kiowa tribe as referred to above were actually quite feared in their time as plains raiders who were brutal in their methods, but it doesn't lessen the simple beauty of their relationship with the buffalo and nature as a whole..
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02-24-2016, 12:52 PM | #54 | |
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Unit 731 was an organized effort that was initiated from the very top command of the Japanese government.
It was widespread with hundreds of thousands of people affected an subjected to unspeakable tortures. It's not the torture of a few people for terrorist flair or wartime information. Nor was it mass genocide with swift killing. It was calculated, organized, methodically and specifically executed atrocity done in the name of science and country (Japan) while the Japanese soldiers enjoyed their duty similar to how they now enjoy tentacle porn and buying soiled panties from vending machines. Please Google Unit 731. This shit wasn't the same. BOTH my grandfathers fought against the Japanese and with US forces prior to WWII. I've heard these stories first hand. |
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02-24-2016, 01:32 PM | #56 | |
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No, the Japanese did not kill hundreds of thousands. They killed up to 15 MILLION mostly civilians in SE Asia. Mostly Chinese (10 million). Japan does not get nearly enough blame for the things they did in and just before WW2. Call someone Hitler or a Nazi and its the worst thing in the world, but the Japanese were as bad or worse. And simply because they felt they were a superior race and no one else deserved to be treated as a human being.
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Germany had like 1.5 to 2million Soldiers when they invaded Poland, ISIS has like 25k members at best. |
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Hirohito's Generals = Hitler WWII Japanese Army = Perverted Nazi Long live tentacle porn and schoolgirl outfits. Not. |
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02-26-2016, 07:56 AM | #62 |
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Again and? Werner Von Braun and his rocket scientists also got the same accommodations. They ran an area where tens of thousands of Jewish prisoners died building their v2 rockets and did nothing about it. They come here and build the Saturn V and get ticker tape parades. The point is at the time, Stalin was the biggest monster, we needed the intelligence and information the Japanese and Germans had to get ahead of the Soviets because we thought there would be another war. So we made deals that at the time we're necessary to get the upper hand. This is why these guys were spared. Stain as you probably know killed over 30mm and is mankind's number 1 murderer.
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02-26-2016, 08:24 AM | #63 |
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Point is I'm not condoning what they did. And the reason we let them slide was to protect us. But now with isis, what's the excuse for letting them be? We know they make their money from oil traded on the black market transported by truck. But we won't bomb the trucks because one of the drivers may not be isis and it may cause pollution. Really? Flying an F18 to bomb them causes more pollution. Geez. What's next? Reduce the performance or our fighter jets by strapping the equivalent of a catalytic converter on them?
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02-26-2016, 02:41 PM | #66 |
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Which is what both sides did. More the Indians. The settlers made houses and fences. Indians would put together war parties to do just that, and skin you too.
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