37 Replies to “September 29, 2025: Reader Tips”

    1. From the comments … our public school teachers taught us that the natives lived in peace enjoying one long camping, music, festival. Imagine, if you will … life as a perpetual Dead Head … migrating with the weather, chewing on peyote and ditch weed, singing and dancing (without your VW van). Love … just endless love and peace.

      Until those evil white Europeans arrived to kill the buzz.

  3. The Iroquoi were especially loathsome and cruel. They were expanding their empire even before European showed up. Friend of mine has an ancestor’s statue somewhere along the Richelieu. He was scalped.

    1. The scene in Last of the Mohicans … when the teen girl being chased by the noble, peaceful, natives … chooses to jump off a cliff to her death rather than face the rape and torture she would suffer by her native captors pretty much says it all.

      2. A “mesa” is untidy, a “plateau” is philosophical, and a “butte” is mighty good lookin’! That’s how I tell ’em apart.

    1. They forgot to mention that the virgins are 72 teenage boys all wound up ready to go….just awaiting their repository.

      1. More likely sheep and goats.

        Which reminds me of a joke.

        What do you call a muslim with a sheep under one arm and a goat under the other?

        Answer: bisexual

    2. multiple suicide bombings? Seems like a one and done kind of thing.

      Organized them and sent some other fool to carry it out I suppose.

  9. On October 25, 1870, within present day Lethbridge, Alberta, as many as 400 Cree and Assiniboine in a raiding party were killed by Blackfoot Confederacy defenders in the Battle of Belly River. The Blackfoot Confederacy consisted of Blackfoot, Piegan, and Blood tribes. In one battle more Indians killed each other than were ever killed in conflict with white people. The foundation of the North West Mounted Police three years later is owed to this battle and the whiskey trading happening at he time.

    1. Scar, I would really like to be able to find out where you came across this information. I read a biography “Plenty-Coups Chief of the crows by Frank B Linderman that also claimed Native Tribes were constantly at war. Ancestral tribal lands were only yours as long as you could defend them.

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