[lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:07:14 -0500
On 11/30/2010 11:25 AM, Omar Kusturica wrote about
Tecumseh:
there was a concrete pretext for that but more generally it seems like a
logical decision
The northeastern US Indians played French against
British for a while until France lost, then
switched to working with the British in guerrilla
raids on the colonists during the US Revolutionary
War. At this point in US history, 1812, it was
possible for the British to retake the colonies,
which is why Tecumseh sided with them, by explicit
agreement with the British.
No strategy was successful against the Europeans.
In the South, one tribe, Cherokee I believe, tried
to assimilate, creating their own alphabet,
establishing a government, taking on all British
customs, even going so far as owning African slaves.
They were forcibly evicted--despite winning a US
Supreme Court case in their favor--to endure, and
many could not, the infamous "Trail of Tears."
Yet they were never "Noble Savages" in a
Rousseauian sense. Like their counterparts in
Florida, they were often proxy warriors for
European powers, and were just as vicious and
relentless as any European or Asian group has been.
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