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Columbus/Indigenous-Peoples Days *cackle*

October 14, 2024

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7 THOUGHTS ON “Columbus/Indigenous-Peoples Days *cackle*”

  • blake says:
    October 14, 2024 at 3:04 pm

    Yeah, Kamala, Indians had to be taught raping, pillaging, torture and cannibalism.

    Or, not.

    By the way, Kamala, how large was the Iroquois confederacy again?

  • dick not quite dead white guy says:
    October 15, 2024 at 7:51 pm

    And there was also the very moving ceremony where priests cut hearts out of living people, or where they threw virgins into live volcanoes, and then there was the Indian… ahh sorry, my bad….Indigenous Peoples gift that kept on giving – syphilis to Columbus’ crew that infected 1,000,000 people in Western Europe by 1539. It was an extra special gift because it was usually fatal to Europeans within three months, because at that time they had no antibodies against it.

    • leelu says:
      October 16, 2024 at 8:15 am

      Dick… not to be combative, just puzzled. I was led to believe transmission went the other way? I’d like to follow up.source?

      Thanks

      • DougM says:
        October 16, 2024 at 9:34 am

        Way I understand it…
        Europeans brought horses, firearms, and smallpox;
        and they returned with yams, tobacco, and the syph

        • leelu says:
          October 17, 2024 at 7:51 am

          Doug,

          Thanks. Got the two confused.

      • jlw says:
        October 16, 2024 at 9:57 am

        still much debated. here is just one article:

        https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3956094/

        • leelu says:
          October 17, 2024 at 7:52 am

          Thanks!

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