3 ms·
Lakota checking in to tell you that a basic reading of history would confirm that you’re pretty wrong. Please don’t what-about the Uyghurs to Native American h
by hoolabooladoola 4y ago
Lakota checking in to tell you that a basic reading of history would confirm that you’re pretty wrong.
Please don’t what-about the Uyghurs to Native American history because it’s disrespectful both ways, and minimizes their suffering. For all the conflict with Europeans, our historical experiences with them, painful as they may have been and remain, were much more nuanced and complicated than what is happening in China. I have also never met anyone native who thinks of our history as a genocide, and I’m involved in tribal politics.
Honestly even calling our history a genocide is a dramatic simplification that removes our agency (all too common in non-native takes). We fought back and won some things, lost others. That’s not something you can say about victims of genocide.
- texaslonghorn5 4y agodespite not wanting to discount your lived experience, I am more inclined to believe settler colonialist theory (drawing on work from trained scholars, both indigenous and not) which suggest that European settlement did lead to what was in fact genocide.
- krapp 4y agoI think once manifest destiny and the American Indian wars started, a case could be made. Indian removal[0] at the very least seems like ethnic cleansing, and there are plenty of accounts of wholesale massacres of natives by European settlers and soldiers. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal
- unity1001 4y ago> Lakota Lakota who? A few thousand or ten thousand 'native americans' who are considered native american if they have 1/30 native american blood? ... sheeeshhh...