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From: "Roger" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] European views on Indians
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:52:53 -0500
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Nothing wrong with your post here. Too many people walking around on egg
shells as it is. Do you mean they will shoot at you if you get on their
property or if you are on public property?

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tabitha Holmes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] European views on Indians


> Good call Tim, Now FORGIVE ME PEOPLE FOR SOME OF THE WORDS I AM GONNA
> USE!!!! It is not ment to ANY disrespect!!! It is only the truth!!! My
> husband has family on a REZ in Montana. I have a dear friend who is
> Shoshone. There are still towns at out that way who HATE Indians. They
> are still very backward as in the hollows out east here. Out there they
> refer to Natives as "Prarie Niggers" . And they will shoot yer butt,
> if you get my drift :) They are still wild out west, the plains and
> Rocky mountain areas are still un-tamed. But that is why we love it,
> eh?? :) The natives AND other people in general dont always abide by US
> law. ( Not that everybody does out here) Because in many places, there
> is no law. I hope yall get what I am tryin to say. PLEASE DONT TAKE ME
> WRONG!!!!!! -Tabitha
>
>
>
>
>
> --- wrote:
> > In regards to "European" attitudes of Indians, there seems to be two
> > extreme
> > views which are harmful or eventually harmful.
> >
> > 1. There are some bigoted non-Indians (this applies to more than just
> >
> > Europeans) who view Indians with the same biased slant that they view
> > blacks.
> > In some places in the east it was and still is, common to equally
> > refer to
> > Indians and blacks with the "N" word. (Read the biography of Edward
> > R
> > Murrow, America's greatest journalist who was part Indian). In
> > western areas
> > there are some bigoted non-Indians who view all Indians as drunks and
> >
> > immoral. These are negative racist views.
> >
> > 2. There is another racist view which either pities Indians as the
> > ultimate
> > victims or glorifies them as romantic stereotypical demi-gods who can
> > do no
> > wrong. Indians have been cruelly victimized but they have also
> > achieved many
> > successes and won many battles in spite of prejudice and genocide.
> > But
> > Indians are also regular people who sometimes screw up like everybody
> > else.
> > Some Indian nations held Africans as chattel slaves and still today
> > many
> > Indians disdain African-Americans as badly as any white bigot. Some
> > of the
> > problems facing Indians today are a result of their own mistakes,
> > others are
> > not. This can be said of everybody.
> >
> > Whether white prejudice or white guilt, both are equally harmful to
> > blacks
> > and Indians and there are always unscrupulous people to exploit these
> >
> > attitudes. In all races there are heroes and villains, but the
> > majority of us
> > are just plain ole common folks who are sometimes heroes and
> > sometimes
> > villains.
> >
> > Pardon if I state the obvious.
> >
> > Tim Hashaw
> > Houston, Texas
> >
> >
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> Until...
> Tabitha Holmes
>
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