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From: Mike & Lindsey Matherne <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] European views on Indians
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:07:38 -0600
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Actually heard a woman yelling at a NA on National TV no less "you ain't
nuthin' but an ol' Woods "N"......" right outside of Spokane when they were
having the big fight in the Seventies over fishing and logging rights in
Washington State. Couldn't believe my ears. Then she and her husband picked up
some half-fist sized rocks off the side of the road and flung them at the
Indian, who you could barely see in the shadows of the trees. They hadn't a
chance of reaching him and he just watched for a moment, then melted away into
the trees.

Lindsey


"Elizabeth G. Brett" wrote:

> Yup..
>
> Out west I've heard the term Prairie "N*s"...
>
> On Pine Ridge in South Dakota there have been a number of lynchings...The
> Justice Dept went there but nothing has been done.
>
> In Sasketchewan Canada town cops have been dragging Native men who they
> find walking and buzzed out to the wilds , stripping them of shoes and
> jackets and leaving them to freeze to death in the middle of winter. They
> only found out that it was the cops after one man survived.
>
> Some people are a real trip...
>
> Elizabeth
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Melungeon] European views on Indians
>
> In regards to "European" attitudes of Indians, there seems to be two
> extreme
> views which are harmful or eventually harmful.
>
> 1. There are some bigoted non-Indians (this applies to more than just
> Europeans) who view Indians with the same biased slant that they view
> blacks.
> In some places in the east it was and still is, common to equally refer to
> Indians and blacks with the "N" word. (Read the biography of Edward R
> Murrow, America's greatest journalist who was part Indian). In western
> areas
> there are some bigoted non-Indians who view all Indians as drunks and
> immoral. These are negative racist views.
>
> 2. There is another racist view which either pities Indians as the
> ultimate
> victims or glorifies them as romantic stereotypical demi-gods who can do no
> wrong. Indians have been cruelly victimized but they have also achieved
> many
> successes and won many battles in spite of prejudice and genocide. But
> Indians are also regular people who sometimes screw up like everybody else.
> Some Indian nations held Africans as chattel slaves and still today many
> Indians disdain African-Americans as badly as any white bigot. Some of the
> problems facing Indians today are a result of their own mistakes, others
> are
> not. This can be said of everybody.
>
> Whether white prejudice or white guilt, both are equally harmful to blacks
> and Indians and there are always unscrupulous people to exploit these
> attitudes. In all races there are heroes and villains, but the majority of
> us
> are just plain ole common folks who are sometimes heroes and sometimes
> villains.
>
> Pardon if I state the obvious.
>
> Tim Hashaw
> Houston, Texas
>
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