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echo: indian_affairs
to: DENNIS MARTIN
from: SONDRA BALL
date: 1997-06-12 20:03:00
subject: Re: PRAYERS

  >SB> Not all Native Americans were that kind.  I think of the Carribs who
  >SB> were happily killing and eating the Tainos at one point, and stealing
  >SB> their islands.  Which didn't last very long, however, before the
  >SB> Spaniards came, and killed the CArribs, and stole the islands, too.
DM>With the diversity of the NA culture as it's presently known, you can find
  >examples of anything you choose to.  I can point to the Northwest Coastal
  >peoples and the Southwest Puebloen peoples as well who were not
  >expansionistic.
DM>I guess it all depends upon what point you're trying to make, as to who 
ou
  >use for an example.
Which is precisely the point I was trying to make.  There is, and was,
no single native viewpoint on just about anything.
                           Sondra
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