They Hate Thanksgiving

Looking through various newspaper headlines, I saw this at the Cedar Rapids Gazette this morning. Their web site is closed to most stories except for subscribers, but you can tell where this is going in the first paragraph:

Like their fellow Iowans, most members of the Meskwaki tribe will enjoy a big meal today with family and friends. They will not, however, entertain fond thoughts of the Pilgrims, whose 1621 gathering in Massachusetts with about 90 American Indians served as a model for the modern Thanksgiving holiday. Nor will many of them dwell on the injustices -- most notably land seizures and relocation to reservations -- that befell their own ancestors at the hands of the Pilgrim's successors.

This is just more of that "Thanksgiving = Genocide" bullshit that some newspapers offer up every year. If you remember, two years ago an idiot by the name of Jesse Villalobos got his "Thanksgiving = Genocide" piece published in the Des Moines Register. That's been long purged, although the original lives on at the mis-named Tolerance.org web site.

Back to the Meskwakis. Did you know that the Meskwaki tribe aren't indigenous to Iowa? That's right. They were originally from Canada. And it wasn't the British white man and woman seeking relief from religious persecution that drove them out of their areas, it was the French:

The Fox tribe of Native Americans are an Algonquian language-speaking group that are now merged with the allied Sac tribe as the Sac and Fox Nation. The Fox called themselves Meshkwahkihaki or Mesquakie. The name Fox originated in a French mistake applying a clan name to the entire tribe.

The Fox originally lived east of Michigan along the Saint Lawrence River. The tribe may have numbered as many as 10,000 but years of war with the French-supplied Hurons reduced their numbers and forced them west first to the area between Saginaw Bay and Detroit in Michigan and then to Wisconsin. In Wisconsin the Fox gained control of the Fox River system. This river was vital for fur trade between French Canada and the interior of North America, because one could navigate from the Bay of Green Bay in Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. By going down the Fox River to Lake Winnebago, through the Wolf River one could reach a small portage (at the present day city of Portage, Wisconsin) to the Wisconsin River. From the Wisconsin River, traders could reach the Mississippi River and ultimatley the rest of the continent. When the French had first contact with them they estimated that the Fox numbered about 6,500. By 1712, they were down to 3,500 when the First Fox War broke out with the French (1712-1714). The Second Fox War of 1728 found the remaining 1500 Fox reduced to 500 who found shelter with the Sac and brought French animosity to that tribe. The First Fox War was purely economic in nature. The French merely wanted rights to use the river system to gain access to the Mississippi. The Second Fox War was genocidal because the Mesquakie continually refused to allow traders onto the Fox and Wolf rivers.

Members of the Fox tribe spread through southern Wisconsin, and the Iowa-Illinois border. In 1829 the government estimated there were 1500 Fox (along with 5500 Sac). Some of them were involved with some of the Sac in the Blackhawk War when they refused to give up their lands in Illinois.

Fox who had successfully fled west of the Mississippi River were known as the "lost people" by the Dakota.

The Meskwaki later moved to a settlement near Tama, Iowa.

What motivates reporters to write and editors to print this these types of stories? They hate America, that's what. They simply hate America. They push that big "Fuck You" finger back to old Whitey because of some bullshit they read at their elitist lefty colleges. The Evil White Man should have stayed in Europe all those centuries ago rather than intrude on all the Injuns who were busy warring and killing and eating each other. Fuck diversity. That's basically what they're saying, the hippie-crits.