Aborignal Paintings
Posted in aboriginal art on 10/16/2009 02:02 pm by admin
Should “Native” Americans have to give some of their land to the aborignies?
The first humans to settle on both American continents were descendants of the Aborignies that live in Australia. Cave paintings, telling the exact same myths and stories as the aborignie ‘dream time’ are found all over both American continents, predating the arival of the native Americans (over a land bridge from northern china.)
There are even a handfull of people (two, of mixed aborignal-British descent) living on a small island just south of Argentina who belong to a tribe of Aboriginal People, who’s history tells of them coming across, settling all over the land, and then being wiped out by the eventual invaders, all except this tribe which escaped.
Is this any different to what the white settlers did when they arrived on the continent?
And if it is not, whey don’t the descendants of the aboriginies deserve some land back?
Exactly. We can all play that game, and no culture is innocent. If we could find some Neanderthals perhaps we could give Europe back to them. The Franks were an invading Germanic Tribe conquering parts of Gaul. Let’s kick out all Frenchmen of Frankish extraction and leave what is now France to the Gauls. Oh, wait, most of the Gauls were actually of mixed Roman and Celtic extraction because J.C. (Julius Caesar, of course) conquered Gaul. Of course, the first order of business should be to get rid of all those Angles, Saxons, Danes and Jutes cluttering up the British Isles, then if we could just find come Icenii to give Britain back to…
I agree with Marsha and just gave her a thumbs up. I hope my answer doesn’t imply otherwise. I think we should all treat each other with respect. But the kinds of restitution Jammil is addressing are truly impossible to sort out at some point. The questions becomes who gets to decide who gets what, and who has the most legitimate, most recent grievance, and I don’t want to hand that kind of authority over to anyone.
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