Im wearing a shirt that read "Turn in your guns /pic of 4 indians holding rifles/ The government will take care of you".
A guy walks up to me and says hes Navajo. He certainly looked it but only half because he looked like he had to shave 3x a day.
He starts out by saying " I dont know how you think but,,," The white man stole this land. Christopher Columbus was a mass murderer. etc.
I told him the natives crossed a land bridge from Siberia during the Ice Age then spent the next 10,000 years fighting each other for land.
I also said that every nation on earth was the result was conquest and that it predated the written word.
Not the "Oh you poor victim" he was looking for. Columbus didnt land in North America. He found some islands in the Caribbean.
Ponce De Leon sailed around Florida and named it Land of Flowers. Panfilo De Narvaez landed 300 men and some horses where St Petersburg Fl. is now.
3 years later 3 survivors stumbled into a Spanish mission in Texas. The natives and the land had killed 99% of the first explorers to step foot in North America.
So when people say "we stole this land". I say "We conquered this continent".
Im wearing a shirt that read "Turn in your guns /pic of 4 indians holding rifles/ The government will take care of you".
A guy walks up to me and says hes Navajo. He certainly looked it but only half because he looked like he had to shave 3x a day.
He starts out by saying " I dont know how you think but,,," The white man stole this land. Christopher Columbus was a mass murderer. etc.
I told him the natives crossed a land bridge from Siberia during the Ice Age then spent the next 10,000 years fighting each other for land.
I also said that every nation on earth was the result was conquest and that it predated the written word.
Not the "Oh you poor victim" he was looking for. Columbus didnt land in North America. He found some islands in the Caribbean.
Ponce De Leon sailed around Florida and named it Land of Flowers. Panfilo De Narvaez landed 300 men and some horses where St Petersburg Fl. is now.
3 years later 3 survivors stumbled into a Spanish mission in Texas. The natives and the land had killed 99% of the first explorers to step foot in North America.
So when people say "we stole this land". I say "We conquered this continent".
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