Enjoying snuggle time with my Callie-girl

[conuly]

I think she's missed hanging out with me as much as I've missed hanging out with her. The dogs are nice, but they're not cats, and they're not Callie-cat.

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Comments

[siderea]

How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative

Thank you so much for posting this. It's so so important, and for an unobvious reason. Have you read Lowen's Lies My Teachers Told Me? He discusses how one of the dimensions of on-going (he wrote in the 80s IIRC and this hasn't changed) of racism against Native Americans is the characterization – stereotyping is not a strong enough word – of them as "primitive" and "savages" who "refused civilization", i.e. Western/European lifestyles, and that is massively false: the historical record is edited to removed evidence of the massive instances of wholesale assimilation of native peoples into the Euro-American lifestyle: adopting not just English and Christianity and the white style of dress, but taking up homestead farming and the whole ball of wax. When we hear about the forcible relocation of Native Americans, we imagine deerskin clad forest-dwellers who live in tipis and hunt with bow and arrow, when it might (depending on the instance) be more accurate to imagine darker-skinned church-going pioneer families driven from their farms.

So when something like this comes along and – to the shock of moderns – shows a wealthy Native American landholder, and, yes, slaveowner, who was driven from his property, it pointedly demonstrates a long-concealed ugly truth about American racism and history: Native Americans were not unwilling to assimilate, it was white Americans who would not let them, and who punished them ruthlessly when they did.

[greghousesgf]

I've read Lies My Teachers Told Me, it is an excellent book.

[conuly]

You might also like A People's History of America and A Different Mirror.