The Native American Myth

I just saw some quotes from a Washington Post columnist who ridiculed our current national concern over shoplifting as the "Panic" Of "A Sticky-Fingered Nation Built On Stolen Land." She's right that we are sticky fingered, but it's the people who ransack pharmacies or the mobs who smash the display cases in jewelry stores who are the problem. She blames everyone. But not everyone is doing this. I don't see Asian-American or Scandanavian-American mobs robbing any stores. As for the Spanish and later the English stealing the land from the Indians, there's no doubt we did do that. What she doesn't seem to realize, though, is that the land the Spanish took from the pre-Columbia Indians was in any way occupied by the original natives. Life in pre-Columbian America, from Alaska to the tip of South America, was almost always a matter of taking some other tribe's land. Not only did Indian tribes continually fight and kill members of other tribes in the 20,000 or 25,000 years humans occupied the land, they also, especially in the American southwest, ate them too. Whatever the faults of the subsequent English, Spanish and French invaders, at least they didn't do that. 3/2/2024, 9:06:44 PM · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies