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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Good stuff, Ferdinand!!  |
Yeah good stuff. Another lie? The Crusades paled to the tactics used to convert the native americans to Christianity. Didn't stop until the early 1900's when they were either locked up on reservations or all dead.
"Smallpox for Jesus" - after passing out contaminated blankets to the native americans:
“the natives are neere all dead of the smalle Poxe, so as the Lord hathe cleared our title to what we posses.” John Winthrope
till their Priests and Ancients have their throats cut, there is no hope to bring them to conversion.”-John Smith
There is a final, far more tragic means to convert the people. Kidnap the children.
1.Rechristen them with English Christian names, forbid the use of their own names.
2.Punish them for speaking their own language, or grab them when they are young enough not to have learned it very well.
3.Force them to live at the Mission School and only visit home 1 or 2 days for the Christian Christmas.
4.Cut their hair, strip them of their clothing and religious artifacts, and denigrate the artifacts as uncivilized, backwards, or "primitive".
5.Do this all when they are young enough to not fight back.
Native populations were decimated by illness, starvation, and war. But the actual native cultures were more decimated by the mission schools and "Jesus" than anything else done to the various Indian peoples.
Jesuits set up reserves for Native Americans and missionaries. The laws governing these reserves reflected Christian values, and punishments varied from whipping, payment, to even death for crimes of adultery, witchcraft, and worshiping any other deity than the Christian God. However, many Natives did not truly convert and became false Christians to avoid punishment, which only further angered the Europeans. Lesser punishments on the reserves were for the following crimes: powwowing, gaming, fornication, polygamy, mourning with loud noises (such as howling), body-greasing, as well as several others
Wow this list is so long I'm just going to save the real good stuff for later.
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