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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:02 am
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Christianity in that time was used as a way to "tame the savages," making them subservient, particularly to white Christian preachers. A form of slavery.Hasa Diga Eebowai wrote:I read something interesting that I thought I might share and see what opinions people on the board had about it. Here is a quote from the 1822 speech of Native American Apologist Red Jacket about Native Americans turning into black men:Red Jacket wrote: And I say that it is a fact, that whenever you find a tribe of Indians that have been christionized and have changed their custom or habit, which the Great good Spirit gave them, you will see that they are a poor, worthless, lying, ragged, miserable and degraded set of beings; and instead of becoming white men, as they expected to have become by changing their customs and habits, they have formed connections with the blacks, and have become black men in their actions and conduct. I say, therefore, that the Great Spirit will not suffer his Red Children to change their religion or custom. But when they attempt to do it punishes them by turning them into Black Men.
moksha wrote:Do you think it is merely coincidence that Salt Lake City has infinitely more tanning and bronzing salons than back in the Joseph Smith era?
bcspace wrote:I don't know if the comments of someone who is perpetually raising the middle finger to God (in a Ugandan sort of way) can be considered valid in any sense.
Quasimodo wrote:Ugandan? Any chance this might be a racist comment?
I have seen other misinterpretations of what Native orators said. Believing Natives stupid, the early Mormons interpreted Native metaphors literally.a deliberate change by the author as a result of a comparison with the story in the Bible about Cain.