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even tossed in the vatican & hitler
to make sure the hatred was strong.
i am an indian, too.
my grandmother was born on a
reservation in oklahoma.
indians are just like any other people,
we of 500 nations are not a stereotype.
don't buy into all that pseudo-mystic crap
you see on tv and in the movies,
it's not real.
it's a fraud started by the hippies some 40 years ago, a myth created to reinforce a way of thinking
about a lifestyle that never existed.
any generalization that starts by saying
'the indians did this or that'
is false from the start.
there is no one trait that all 'indians' share
other than residence in the americas.
you think indians rode horses ?
the few that did, eventually,
got them from horses lost by the spanish invaders.
before the spanish came
there were no horses.
think indians live in teepees ?
a few did, but most did not.
ditto for all the other stereotypes,
the feathers, the war bonets & paint, etc.
all features of a tribe/nation
that were falsely
generalized to apply to many
people of different lifestyles
all lumped together under a generic name-
indian.
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