Dude, who even knows.

6th April 2023

Post reblogged from Matriarchy and Militarism with 43 notes

apoliticalfemdommunist-deactiva:

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Chest slapping retard weighs in

Part of it like… you know how normally tranquil animals can be scarily dangerous when they’re sick or threatened? For most of the contact period, indigenous American cultures were very sick and very threatened.

Like maybe 30 years ago Amerindian groups were still on about throwing off an old image of bloodthirsty savages taking scalps and all that. Like some band of postapocalyptic maniacs.

Postapocalyptic tales, of course, are largely a mechanism for retelling the “taming the wild frontier” narratives that were foundational to American culture.

Native Americans as frontline settlers encountered them and took as the essential nature of their race and civilizations what came through several simultaneous plagues that absolutely cratered population, followed by an alien invasion.

Those guys were living in a postapocalypse.

Tagged: amhisthistory

  1. thistlekiss said: Ease off with the fucking ableism, goddamn
  2. fruityyamenrunner reblogged this from fireleaptfromhousetohouse and added:
    no I don't assume he doesn't know about that. i assume he is aware that was literally ancient history.
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    You assume this Lincolnshire puritan doesn’t know about Britain’s own history of having a foreign empire invade and put...
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