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Post by frankf on Jun 25, 2014 11:36:04 GMT -4
Redskins - The term dates back to the institutionalized genocide of Native Americans, most notably when the Massachusetts colonial government placed a bounty on their heads. The grisly particulars of that genocide are listed in a 1755 document called the Phips Proclamation, which zeroed in on the Penobscot Indians, a tribe today based in Maine.
Spencer Phips, a British politician and then Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province, issued the call, ordering on behalf of British King George II for, “His Majesty’s subjects to Embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and Destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians.” They paid well – 50 pounds for adult male scalps; 25 for adult female scalps; and 20 for scalps of boys and girls under age 12.
These bloody scalps were known as “redskins.”
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Post by KITransplant on Jun 25, 2014 12:16:25 GMT -4
Wikipedia's entry on the Redskins name says otherwise. Who really knows--I think most assume it is a reference to skin color.
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Post by frankf on Jun 25, 2014 12:31:15 GMT -4
The Wikipedia entry also includes:
However, a historical association between the use of "redskin" and the paying of bounties can be made. In 1863, a Winona, MN newspaper, the Daily Republican, printed among other announcements:
"The state reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory. This sum is more than the dead bodies of all the Indians east of the Red River are worth." [23]
This association can evoke strongly negative sentiments. In a 2014 interview, one activist commented:
The name itself actually dates back, you know, at the time when the Native American population was being exterminated, and bounty hunters were hired to kill Native American people. And so, you know, one could make a great living off of just killing Native American people. And there was a tier effect that was paid out. You know, the highest paid was for a Native American man and then a woman and then a child. And so, based off of that, there were news clippings and flyers and stuff that were posted up, asking people to go out to kill Indians and bring back the red skin. So, in order to show that they made their kill, they had to bring back a scalp or their skin. And so, that’s where the "Redskin" word has been kind of passed down. So, in our community, we do not use that word.[24]
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Post by KITransplant on Jun 25, 2014 12:41:37 GMT -4
Yes, an association between the name "redskin" and the paying of bounties can be made. Also, I think it is fair to say that there is an association between "redskin" and actual red skin.
I suspect the name "Redskins" has more to do with the latter than the former.
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Post by deepsea on Jun 29, 2014 7:14:07 GMT -4
Naming Military Helicopters After Native American Tribes Is A ‘Propaganda’-Fueled ‘Injustice’ The Apache, Black Hawk, Comanche, Cheyenne, Chinook, Kiowa, and Lakota. Ask anyone in the military what these names mean to them, and they are likely to give you a stream of descriptive terms along the lines of: powerful, strong, and unmatched. These are the names of helicopters our military uses in war. They save lives, and across all armies, nothing compares. Their pilots are some of the most skilled in the U.S. military and, therefore, the world. But to the managing editor of the Boston Review, Simon Waxman, the use of Native American tribe names for military helicopters is a shameful injustice, perpetrated by the American government. www.ijreview.com/2014/06/151734-pc-overload-washpo-oped-slams-naming-military-helicopters-native-american-tribes/
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Post by RobMoore on Jun 29, 2014 16:42:53 GMT -4
LOL, it's like the old days of the tall ships. When you captured a ship, you kept using the enemy's name for it to further the insult.
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Post by Frank on Jun 30, 2014 14:02:13 GMT -4
Problem solved!
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Post by alleycat on Jun 30, 2014 16:03:42 GMT -4
Problem solved!
Oh, man! You stole my idea from a couple of months ago! Should have opted it here...I sent it to a letters to the editor.
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Post by deepsea on Jul 2, 2014 10:38:51 GMT -4
What are we to do about " Indian Summer " ?
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Post by RobMoore on Jul 2, 2014 14:05:29 GMT -4
When you say "Indian", do you mean dots or feathers?
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Post by KITransplant on Jul 2, 2014 14:07:56 GMT -4
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