What I absolutely adore about the present era: self hating genuflecting white apologists who’ve been steeped in the moralistic and thoroughly fact-free narrative of stupidity of indigenous superiority and right of claim.

Happy belated Columbus Day, by the way.

A few facts.

Native Americans arrived as immigrants on the North American continent 30,000 years ago, crossing the Bering Strait from Siberia. EVERY North American Indian tribe by genetic extension is related to the Athabaskan peoples who descend directly from the Altaian Siberian-Mongol DNA allele. This is proven anthropology. Don’t be a science denier.

For the totality of those 30,000 years prior to Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean, native tribes engaged in slavery, intertribal warfare and genocide, cannibalism and human ritual sacrifice involving the stealing and raping of the women and children of other tribes. Intertribal skirmishes decided land ownership and territorial dominance for the history of the continent that can only be properly summarized as an epoch of constant, viciously brutal warfare interspersed by rare periods of peace and truce.

Entire tribes were wiped from existence by other native tribes. Genocide. Northeastern tribes like the Huron and Iroquois reveled in their elaborate and lengthy victory ceremonies lasting days by skinning and burning alive surviving enemy warriors, roasting their victims on scaffolding above roaring fire, eating the hearts of the vanquished and sating themselves with the naked flesh of captured wives of the conquered who were expected to be loyal concubinous property of the victors ever after.

Perhaps those convinced of the modern romantic myth of the “Noble Savage” would care to explain why the name given for the Mohawk tribe is rooted in an Algonguin word literally translated “eaters of the dead,” or why overwhelmed opposing tribes of the Iroquois, warriors, women and children alike routinely committed suicide rather than suffer the infamous and well told savagery of becoming chattel to the Iroquois confederacy.

So, the demonization of European arrival in the New World canonizes the warmongering land expansion of tribes, including the Lakota Sioux who claimed the Black Hills in 1776 by defeating the Cheyenne–who stole the land from the Kiowa–who stole the land from the Pawnee and Crow–who stole the same land from the Arikra, Mandan and Hidatsa tribes who occupied this land between 1000 and 1560 A.D.

Any condolences cards exchanged between the Lakota Sioux and the Arikra on this Native American Day? Apology notes for arriving and taking a land already claimed by other peoples, at a terrible cost of lost human life?

Is the Iroquois Confederacy issuing apology to the Algonquins for wiping them out of existence in 1640?

Didn’t think so.

In the lunacy of the present demonization of white culture in the main and white masculinity in specific, we’re now apologizing for the arrival of smallpox via exploration and conquest.

Interesting.

I wonder if the Chinese explorers who carried the rats infected with Yersenia Pestis up the Silk Road into Europe have ever apologized for the Bubonic Plague outbreak in 1340 that eventually would kill 60% of Europe in a death toll of 60-million….ten times larger than the Native American population of the America’s in 1492 and the single largest pandemic in human history.

Hallmark really should print a card.

“We’re really quite sorry your immune systems weren’t accustomed to our germs. Thoughts and prayers.”

Sell them right next to the Alzheimer’s flu shots.

In truth of fact, it’s arguable that the patient zero carriers of the Black Death are the same ancestral races of the indigenous tribes of the Steppes and Siberia that had earlier spilled into North America and would later be infected with smallpox in the 16th Century. Irony.

And so, in this maniacally stupid era of history revision and virtue orgasm, America is the first nation in history to apologize for conquest. It’s stupid and unnecessary indoctrination. Unless you’re a social planner attempting to fractionalize and conquer through propaganda.

Wars have consequences, just as they did when the spinning roulette wheel of territorial skirmish banished the Arikra and allowed the Lakota to occupy the Great Plains during the latter portion of the 19th century before their defeat by the United States Army.

Everyone on this continent from the beginning of time is an immigrant. Choosing to chop the timeline five hundred years ago rather than 10,000 years ago is the source of the inaccuracy and the stupidity of the present discussion.

Everyone on this continent from the beginning of time is an immigrant. Choosing to chop the timeline five hundred years ago rather than 10,000 years ago is the source of the inaccuracy and the stupidity of the present discussion.

What became of America’s native tribes, the descended cousins of Genghis Khan and the hardy sojourners of the Siberian wastes who trekked across the top of the world to America is a tragedy of history, to be sure. A tale of a beautiful, brutal, wild and savage Stone Age culture that arose, flourished and thrived for tens of thousands of years before being confronted by technological and numerical superiority with equally predictable results.

But then, all of human history is a tragedy of winners and losers, in line and chapter and verse for every race of people that has ever lived. And it can only be properly understood by reading the entire book, rather than fixating on chapters that now serve as handy political weapons for the reinstatement of the very brand of serfdom and classism and inescapable servitude that drove the exploration for new lands with free air and room to succeed by the sweat and toil of a man’s brow.

New lands and nations found and founded by the bravery, courage and determination of giants of men who undertook impossibly dangerous voyages of great discovery and shook the foundations of the world.

Men like Christopher Columbus.

Happy Columbus Day.