La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for May 17, 2021

uh… yeah

Seinfeld episode memories are flooding in….

that was a terrible time in the usa, thousands of native americans were killed. We should not be proud of that

They got in the way of Manifest Destiny, a policy being perfected by the Israelis.

I am half Blackfoot on mom’s side. You can read of the contributions Native Americans made to the USA and the world.

“Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the Worldby Jack Weatherford”. It costs about $11 on kindle or about $15 in paperback.

What happened in North and Central America was what you’d expect when an iron age (and gunpowder) civilization meets a paleolithic civilization. Not that the Indians wouldn’t have done the same thing if the roles were reversed. Most contact between differing tribes/Indian nations on North America were of the unfriendly sort and rape/massacres were the order of the day, along with torturing prisoners to death and/or enslaving them. You can also read “Hanta Yo” by Ruthe Beebe. There’s a reason the Blackfoot were called Dapiek Absaroka (Crow Killers), a name that was also shared with Liver Eating Johnson.

Santorum is a POS.

one scalp under made $100,000 in a year at $5 a scalp

I’m amazed Santorum didn’t say the Indians should ask Trump how to run a casino . . . must have had some reservations on that topic. He’s pathetic.

Is it unkind of me to say that Rick Santorum is a waste of oxygen?

The original killer of indigenous peoples was diseases brought over by Europeans, unbeknownst to them. I suppose it would have been the same if Asians came over in the same numbers.