PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 days agoThe two kinds of 'British Bad' from the former colonieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down116
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minus-squareWogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down2·15 days agoLess it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·edit-215 days ago(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)
minus-squareAbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·15 days agoGeorge Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution…
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-215 days agoSource? Not of Washington’s conflict with Native Americans, that he burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the Revolutionary War.
minus-squareAbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·15 days agohttps://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 days ago https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/ That doesn’t say anything about the Oneidas being attacked by the Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War.
Less it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)
George Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution…
Source?
Not of Washington’s conflict with Native Americans, that he burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the Revolutionary War.
https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/
That doesn’t say anything about the Oneidas being attacked by the Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War.