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Jeffersons Ghost

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12. There are lots of Pueblo and Navajo people in New Mexico...

Reply to lunatica (Reply #10)

Sun Sep 22, 2019, 01:38 AM

Sep 2019

Most of them are as friendly and peaceful as their ancestors were.

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Last night, I watched a sick western movie w/ Natives scalping settlers [View all] Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 OP

When was it made? bitterross Sep 2019 #1

Relatively old - but by then, educated producers knew the truth about scalping. Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #2

What was the title? n/t MicaelS Sep 2019 #4

I didn't see the title, I was channel-surfing... Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #6

You can't tell us what it was called? NCLefty Sep 2019 #14

Check tv schedule then. Nt USALiberal Sep 2019 #21

A paltry bounty? Brother Buzz Sep 2019 #3

My grandmother (in the SE United States) had a neighbor who had been scalped alive as a child RandySF Sep 2019 #5

I'm having trouble with your post packman Sep 2019 #7

Have all the trouble you want; but stick to the facts: Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #8

"Rarely" and "very few" are not facts. Please do continue your research. Triloon Sep 2019 #11

As a whole humans are a war-like species real Cannabis calm Sep 2019 #23

THIS is a fact - Europeans appropriated the practice from the Native Americans packman Sep 2019 #17

How about slaughtering unarmed Natives - on reservations - for dancing? Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #9

Do you really think you are 'teaching' people here something we do not know about? pangaia Sep 2019 #33

This is a Legit question malaise Sep 2019 #38

Many, especially the Navajo were relocated to the Bay Area last Century lunatica Sep 2019 #10

There are lots of Pueblo and Navajo people in New Mexico... Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #12

That's one of the main reasons I came to live in Santa Fe lunatica Sep 2019 #19

Really? you don;t say.. pangaia Sep 2019 #27

This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Sep 2019 #13

No one has rewritten history more than the white man malaise Sep 2019 #15

As Winston said- packman Sep 2019 #18

There is something very bizzar(damn I can;t spell thatt) very bizzaar-- bizaarr-- about this OP.. pangaia Sep 2019 #28

I would have liked the name of the movie malaise Sep 2019 #29

A lot of those old movies were also just plain ignorant and stupid !!!! LOL pangaia Sep 2019 #30

Thoughtful malaise Sep 2019 #32

So true.. pangaia Sep 2019 #37

citation needed Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #16

citations are important. real Cannabis calm Sep 2019 #22

Your American history education seems to be lunatica Sep 2019 #20

Your comments are confrontational and lack historic support Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #24

I was responding to a negative poster lunatica Sep 2019 #25

I apologize. I was quickly reading replies, while researching... Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #35

"The history of the buffalo is entwined with the plight of the Native Americans," pangaia Sep 2019 #31

Fascinating discussion here. Do you happen to remember what channel it was on? underpants Sep 2019 #26

What Europeans did to Native Americans is indefensible. GulfCoast66 Sep 2019 #34

Introduced disease is fully covered in this recent OP: Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #36

You seem especially concerned that your post " do well. " pangaia Sep 2019 #39

Not really. By the time Europeans arrived in North America the damage had been done. GulfCoast66 Sep 2019 #40