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Our Land is always a short hand for the land that the group we belong to currently holds and which our ancestors took from the previous occupants. The Indian tribes which inhabited North America had various virtues, dependent upon the tribe being looked at. None of them were pacifists, and none of them had much concern for the tribes which their tribes dispossessed. Their vices of being usually war like and aggressive to non-members of their tribe they shared with the rest of humanity.
The wisest tribes learned from the white men and made new lives for their people in the face of the overwhelming power possessed by these strangers from the east.
What was that from? What movie I mean?
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). Colonel Miles is speaking to Chief Sitting Bull.
Remind me not to get caught anywhere in the Diocese of Rapid City on a Sunday. I shudder to think what the bishop who endorses confusion of God the Father with a pagan idol has permitted to be done to the Holy Mass.
[…] By posting a silly map that shows who took the land our European ancestors eventually settled on. Of course that's not the way it's framed. In the anti-Western narrative, the people who were here had magically appeared and remained in the same places for about 20 thousand years until the first Europeans arrived. See here for a treatment of that narrative. […]
Do you have any information about Nicholas Black Elk? What is the grounds for his cause for canonisation? The only information I can find about him is that he was anti-colonialism and mixed pagan rituals with Christianity. Would like to find out some facts and whether his cause for canonisation is valid…
An absolutely fascinating figure. Fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn and toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He later produced similar wild west shows on his own. He converted to Catholicism on 1904 and became a Catechism teacher, raising his children as Catholics. The book Black Elk Speaks I have always been fairly dubious about. Too many hands in that book with their own agendas.
Thanks Don. That he chose to convert to the Faith as an adult is pretty amazing.