"We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We valued the exchange of love..." Lakota Sage

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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They are more often portrayed as being brutal savages

Bullshit! Point to this. Point to anything today that says this. Are you really that old that you haven't read anything since the 1890s?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I am a young person and went to both conservative private schools and liberal public schools. At both places I was taught the same watered down history where the Natives were savages and just desperately needed "civilization". You are a drone, Chipit.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What's your reply to encountering uncontacted stone age tribes? Help them become civilized, or let them keep dying every time there's a famine?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Watch them cautiously to protect them from corporations, supply them food or medicine when we see it's needed, make sure they aren't harming other tribes or nearby settlements. Beyond that, leave them to their own volition. You know, be rational and mature.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can't do that. UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Appplies to every human on the planet. If anyone gets denied their rights, it is our responsibility - nay, our duty - to step in and set things to rights. With a land invasion if necessary. It's called "R2P", Responsibility to Protect.

"Leave them to their own volition." Wow, that's heartless. Like leaving the Jews to the Nazis?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are high and mighty, all fear the powerful weight of the Chipit! /s