My post on Native Americans rewritten using only words from Shakespeare’s time:
Americans are those people who have been living in America for the past 15,000 years.
What follows is about those who live in the part of America that now (in 2016) is known as the United States (US). It is directly west across the ocean from Spain and north-western Africa. Today only one person in a hundred in the US is American.
Land: Taken by the English between 1607 and 1890, by murder, war, disease, broken treaty and so on. Some Americans were made to leave their land, like in the Long Walks and the Trails of Tears.
Reservations are the bits of land Americans have left. They are controlled by the US government, which favours, say, mining companies over Americans.
Way of life: mainly English. That comes from the time when the US government took American children from their parents and made them go to faraway US schools. There they were made to dress, speak and worship like the US English. For years Americans had no freedom of religion. Some American languages are dead or dying out.
Sovereignty means control of their own government, laws, land, schools, etc. In law, American governments are equal to the US government. But in practice, few US judges honour the treaties the US has made.
US Africans can be seen as a nation within the US, but they tend to see themselves not in terms of sovereignty but civil rights: being equal before US law.
Compared to the English, Americans, like Africans, are more likely to:
- be beat up, killed or thrown in prison by US authorities;
- be forced to go bad US schools;
- be out of work;
- be poor;
- have shorter lives;
- be seen as no good, even through their own eyes.
Like Africans, Americans are called names by the English. Unlike Africans, they are far more likely to kill themselves.
Americans have much the same view of the English as Africans do, like that they:
- look down on you;
- say one thing and do another;
but add to it:
- see the universe and Americans in a deadened way;
- treaty rights;
- universal rights of native people.
The English tend to see Americans as savages, whether noble or cruel, as being backwards and violent. They tend to see themselves as the best people in all of history. So much so that if you are different in any way, they often assume there must be something wrong with you.
The lies taught at US schools (in 2007):
- America was almost empty in 1491;
- Americans were backwards, too backwards to learn how to farm;
- Americans are incapable of change.
- The English had little choice but to kill Americans or remove them from their land.
These are galling and self-serving. In 1491, for example, most Americans were farmers. The land was no emptier than it was in, say, 1845. It was the Americans who taught the English how to plant corn, now the main food they grow. It was Americans who got it to grow well in what is now the US.
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- Native Americans
- Milahanska – the English
- Non-Shakespearean words I commonly use
- The term:
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I like and appreciate this post but I notice the changing graphic re “Present Resetvations” is missing some. The St Regis Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation is north and west of Plattsburgh, NY, and there is also Seneca Nation in western NY.
Not justifying or excusing anything, mind you. Just observing.
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Correct use of the term American. Thanks.
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@ Melanie
The graphic starts off with “Land Claims by Tribes” but you’ll notice a good chunk of the eastern US is left blank for some reason. I can think of several other current reservations in those white spaces. Whoever made the graphic says it is based on a specific source, and it could be the source didn’t trace the land cessions in the original 13 colonies.
Good catch, btw.
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Why do you call the people that lived in this land before Europeans arrived Americans. You should do your research and find out what they called this land then.
You would make an outstanding historian if you would remove some of your narrow minded reviews and just present the facts. Your anti White/European view blocks you from understanding the true nature of the past thousands of years.
It appears as thought from the time that one African Group wiped out the Neanderthals, who were another African group which arrived earlier in Europe, man has been impacting others. Either through the seed or the sword.
Prior to the arrival of the European there was an active war between individuals who lived in this land.
Nothing but wars and domination. Today we are arriving at a place where a woman nearly became President of the United States, yet you are hyping racial prejudice.
http://www.biography.com/people/amerigo-vespucci-9517978Jan 14, 2016 – America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World. … Amerigo Vespucci – Mini Biography (TV-PG; 3:08) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1451 in Italy. On his third voyage, he discovered present-day …
Each time I see your output I look forward to a positive change.
Yours truly bubble head, nincompoop!
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Reblogged this on League of Bloggers For a Better World.
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Reblogged this on KINGRAIZED.
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I know that Virginia still has 2 reservations, one of them belongs to a Federally recognized tribe (Pamunkey), the other to a state recognized (Mattaponi).
The two reservations trace their history to colonial times.
I understand there is also one in North Carolina (Eastern band of Cherokee).
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@Abagond, have you done a post on the name some indigenous Americans ( not the descendants of European immigrants) use for this country’s? I think it is called Anahuac.
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“Yours truly bubble head, nincompoop!”
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You’ve been dubbed Mr. Bobble Potato Head (who sees life through a rose colored bubble..) NOT bubble head, nincompoop! Get it right.
But hey, it could be worse. Some folks could call you a “white-Latino-caucasian” just because you won’t endorse another Black man, Obomber’s, continuation of Bush’s so called war on terror, or have issues and concerns about the personifications of evil, aka the Clinton gang, retaking the white house. Doing either or both of these things, around here, can get you called that most dreaded word.
white
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Fan so you believe that the word “White” is the dreaded word.
Thus closing your mind to all thing European.
Explain why the Africans are doing so well while your gang is suffering. Could it be your closed mind.
Any ways I realize this is a White hate station, so maybe you are correct I should move on and leave you with your misery.
“This station is closed to all open minded thinking.”
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Mr. Shaw,
“Fan so you believe that the word “White” is the dreaded word.”
It is a dreaded word. Why shouldn’t it be??
MY ancestors and elders are AFRICAN. My brothers and sisters are AFRICANS. My sons and daughters are AFRICANS. I AM AFRICAN.
I’m an African or Black person separated from the cultures/traditions of my people. I bear the life-long struggle of de-colonizing the white-supremacy/superiority crap that has been programmed into my head since birth. And, I bear people like you.
“Any ways I realize this is a White hate station..”
Not once have I, or any regular commenter I’ve read here, ever stated that white people are hated. Some of us just don’t believe in fawning at the European’s feet. We simply call out stuff as we see it. You should try stepping outside that bubble of yours sometime…and man up!
“Explain why the Africans are doing so well while your gang is suffering.”
My gang? To whom are you referring?? Are you comparing a blog to the entire African continent/people???
Obviously most of the people here are doing well enough to be here regularly… maintaining an Internet connection – devices, acquired some education, knowledge, sense/judgment, wisdom, understanding and experience!
I think you took a wrong turn in your cyber travels and now find yourself barking up the wrong tree. What your mammon worshiping hinder parts fail to recognize is that not all the pathologies assigned by whites to Black people are the fault of Black people. AND, many Black people are still rising in spite of all the barriers put in front on those regulated to the lowest rung.
Speaking of gangs, who is YOUR gang??
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“Prior to the arrival of the European there was an active war between individuals who lived in this land.” – Allen Shaw
Response or inquiry: There were ongoing wars between “individuals” or between the tribes of this land?
“Nothing but wars and domination. Today we are arriving at a place where a woman nearly became President of the United States, yet you are hyping racial prejudice.” – Allen Shaw
Response or inquiry: And may I ask, why are so-called African Americans, Hispanics or Asian Americans are supposed to view the near election of a racist woman as President of this shitty country as something to gloat about? And about wars and domination, what group of people are usually the perpetrators of “wars”, land theft, cultural destruction and acts of “domination” within this land referred to as Amerika?
“Amerigo Vespucci – Mini Biography (TV-PG; 3:08) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1451 in Italy. On his third voyage, he discovered present-day …” – Allen Shaw
Response or inquiry: Amerigo Vespucci discovered WHAT? Tell me, why are people of your ilk, incessantly demand that people of color walk a narrow line or take on the promulgated thought process or commands of another people?
Within the world of science, mutants, mutations or a spinoff of the original species are usually destructive. Here, … your PHUCK YOU ID or your indifference about the original peoples of this land and earth comes through vividly.
Indeed, and even further, your post proves that people like you, who are offended by the mere truth, are in fact living a LIE!
Selah!
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BIA map of all reservations in the continental U.S., including state (non-federal) reservations:
https://www.nps.gov/nagpra/DOCUMENTS/ResMAP.HTM
Index for the map that lists the reservations:
https://www.nps.gov/nagpra/DOCUMENTS/ResMapIndex.htm
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@Anne
No. An interesting idea. Thanks.
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@ Michelle
Yes, something I have always wanted to do.
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@ Solitaire
Thanks for the map.
@ Melanie
You are right. I have been to the Onondaga reservation in upstate New York and that is clearly not there. Maybe because it is too small or maybe because the map only considers what took place after 1784.
I agree with Solitaire: good catch.
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@Allen Shaw
I limited this post to words from Shakespeare’s time, by which I meant English words.
I am not anti-White. I am anti-racist. I believe there is a difference. Whenever I say something bad about White people it almost always has to do with their racism. Calling out racism is not “hating White people”.
More:
You seem to be stuck in the same White paternalistic mindset I was taught at school. You should open YOUR mind. White is not always right or well-meaning. If you did not know that on Monday, you should have discovered it by Wednesday.
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Speaking of gangs, who is YOUR gang??
Howdy Doody Gang!
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Curiously enough… I was having conversation with my Mum only 3 or 4 days ago and she said;
‘I am no longer going to call (Native) Americans Native Americans, I am simply going to call them Americans because that is who they are.’
I replied ‘That cool Mum but the problem is no one will understand who you mean. they will think you mean all Americans’
She had a little think and replied ‘ That’s true, I have to call them Native Americans don’t I’
How sad is that.
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Same old gang of mutual admiration society. We speak against Whites and then deny we are racist.
See how fast each of us joined in our attack and defensive wall against such accusation.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck writes like a duck, sees like a duck surely it is a duck.
By the way two thoughts for your mind to attempt to conceive.
1. What did the inhabitants of this land, that the Europeans named America, call this land? That was my question to Abagon.
2. If you analysis the votes for President Elect Trump he won the electoral vote in states where the population of Blacks is about 3-5 percent and had nothing to do with race. Even in the Southeast the Blacks did not support Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump won by default.
After all have you not been telling the Blacks that President Obama was a sell out.
Blacks just did not come out and vote like they did for President Obama.
To be anti-racist in today’s world is to be anti White because in the past 900 years, since the Crusades the European White has been the controlling power in all parts of the world. Other races have been victimized by that power.
Be more broad minded in your thinking. Hate ignorance!
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Mr Shaw,
You didn’t answer my question.
Which gang/group do you belong to?
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I am a gang of one. Forgive me.
I do my own research, I have my own opinions, I read history, do not know the name of many actors, sports players or many things that you know much about.
I no a racist when I read their writings and I do look up meaning of words in the dictionary.
Before I write I read and I normally try not to assume.
Now that is my gang.
Now that you know who my gang is how about reading what I write instead of coming up with some foolish response.
I believe that Abagon is well read and presents subject matter worth discussing; however his writing reflects prejudiced views regardless of his intent. I intend to make him see it in writing so that one day he will realize how it looks to someone other then his “Mutual Admiration Society”.
If I did not believe that I would have abandon his site long ago.
Now words like gang and tribe and some of the other words that some find offensive are just terms and have no real part of the conversation and are used by some to fail to respond to the subject being discussed.
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“Now words like gang and tribe and some of the other words that some find offensive are just terms and have no real part of the conversation and are used by some to fail to respond to the subject being discussed.”
Shaw, let’s be honest here. YOU were the one that brought up the word gang. In case you forgot, here it is: “Explain why the Africans are doing so well while your gang is suffering.”
YOU made “gang” the subject. Perhaps you have a reading (and writing) comprehension situation or issue? Maybe you should go back and re-read what you said, and what I wrote in response. On second thought, why bother? I’ve observed you pulling this same sad brain fart stunt out of your playbook with other posters…no one ever gets anywhere with you because you’re deliberately obtuse, always shifting and ever shifty. It stands to reason that you’ve been dubbed Mr. Bobble Potato Head because that’s what you do. Bobble.
You say that you are a gang of one. Well duh! That’s exactly what everyone here is when all the dross is removed. Individuals. Each with his/her own opinions, points of view, ideas and so on. Sometimes, often times, we share thoughts that are very different from one another. Other times not so much. I learn a great deal about stuff from hanging out here. It keeps me coming back again and again.
What keeps YOU coming back?
…
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Saw an interesting quote from MLK ” Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, The Indian, was an inferior race.”
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@ Allen Shaw
To the best of my knowledge, there was no one word for this land. There were many words in hundreds of different languages from several distinct groups of language families.
What you’re asking would be similar to asking, “What name did the inhabitants of the Euro-Asian continent call their land?”
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“What you’re asking would be similar to asking, “What name did the inhabitants of the Euro-Asian continent call their land?””
Exactly!!!!!!
The entire concept of calling anyone anything is just so much crap. The history of the migration of the North Africans to the European and Far East have been documented by DNA and we now know that most Europeans have the blood of two separate migrations from North Africa into Europe, one being the Neanderthals and the second much later Homo Sapiens.
We do not have clear history of the migration to the southern portions of Africa; however we know that living conditions over hundreds of thousands of years changes the people to allow them to survive in their environment.
By the way where did you find the authority for your response? While I do not disagree with it I cannot find it since there does not seem to be any such history.
Please provide me the reading material or are you assuming.
If you live on the continent that today is called North America you are a North American.
If your family migrated from some other place, you may say that “you believe” your ancestors came from “such and such”.
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@ Allen Shaw
What do you mean, there doesn’t seem to be any history? It’s called linguistics. Look up North American Indian language family groupings. You can google it as well as I can.
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The construction on the pipeline has been going at a furious pace.
Even if this pipeline is completed, heavy resistance might slow the next hundred pipelines on the drawing board.
Cities downriver are starting to get concerned about this pipeline, too.
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