Random history musings
While battling the heat and humidity in my house with no air-conditioning, I noticed that TNT was running a marathon of the mini-series “Into the West. Great mini-series, I’ve never been able to watch it all.
It’s about the indian wars of the 1800’s, from a perspective of two families, one white and one native american. It’s somewhat disheartening to think that this was going on only about 150 years ago. Innocent natives slaughtered, and what must have been going through the minds of not only the chiefs, but the military men who were doing it.
Granted only 60 or so years ago we had the whole Nazi wars.
The last 50 years in world history have changed a lot in the America’s. My generation couldn’t fathom such a thing as a massacre like our ancestors did. Though I’m wondering if we would categorize 9/11 as such.
I guess when you think about it, it just doesn’t seem real. It seems like, at least to me, that these things just happened so long ago, when really they didn’t.
I’m not native american, but I have native american blood in my family from I know of at least 3 separate tribes. One reason I’ve always wanted to visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is to honor the history there. Though I imagine as a white person, I wouldn’t be very welcome.
I’ve been slowly teaching myself Cherokee for a long time now. I haven’t messed with it much in the last month or two due to being so busy, but it’s still something I feel very strongly about. Lakota-Sioux as well. People keep asking me why I’d want to learn a dead language, and why don’t I learn something more useful like Spanish or French. But it’s not about being able to communicate, as beneficial as it might be. It’s a spiritual thing.
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One Response to “Random history musings”
May 29th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
the history channel is playing band of brothers (WWII). It’s sad, too. my dad’s side is jewish.