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Do you think the Native Americans the Europeans first encountered were the ones there continuously from the time the Americas were populated? Or did their group
by IncreasePosts 2y ago
Do you think the Native Americans the Europeans first encountered were the ones there continuously from the time the Americas were populated? Or did their groups at one point or another conquer other groups on the land? Europeans were already on the continent when a major migration (not forced by Europeans) led huge groups from the great lakes area down to the American southwest, displacing native groups that had been there for at least hundreds of years.
Native Americans used winner takes all in the same manner that Europeans did. What's the big deal?
- bawolff 2y agoYou are arguing against something the parent post did not say.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoThey didn't explicitly saying it, but the implication is that some new system came into play when they Europeans arrived, otherwise why bring them up at all? I was pointing out that it was always winner take all.
- bawolff 2y agoRespectfully, i don't think that sentiment is present in the original comment. If anything, the comment is saying the opposite. Winners write history and get to name stuff. Often names just stick even after territory changes hands, but its undoubtedly true that a lot of place names in usa & canada are in english because britian "won". If france won more things would have french names. If spain won spanish. Undoubtedly if various indigenous groups "won" than a lot more things would have indigenous names. This doesn't make indigenous people special, it makes them the same as any other nation-state type group.