PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 hours agoThe two kinds of 'British Bad' from the former colonieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1309arrow-down116
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minus-squareWogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·13 hours 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-squareAbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 hours agoGeorge Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution…
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-27 hours 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-up3arrow-down1·7 hours agohttps://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours 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.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·edit-213 hours 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)
Less it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
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.
(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)