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The Origins of Thanksgiving, According to the Snipe Clan
Someone called “Senator Kayse Jama (He/Him)” (apparently Jama is an Oregon State Senator**) has linked–on his Twitter account–to this person:
No idea who Anessa Hartman Haudenosaunee is, but, Lord, I love the fact that she’s a member of something called the “Snipe Clan.” (It’s the pedant in me. So sorry if that’s triggering.)
And, wait…what? I thought Lincoln proclaimed the fourth Thursday of every November an official “Thanksgiving” holiday largely to commemorate Union victories in the American Civil War (particularly the one at Gettysburg). And that–actually–he was simply codifying George Washington’s original intention from the last decades of the eighteenth century.
Am I wrong? Inquiring minds (mine, anyway) would like to know.
Or, is this just another Leftist nutball who’s detached herself from reality and the facts in order to spin a comfortable narrative that suits her (I’ve not checked its pronouns) narrative?
** As described on his Twitter profile, in order of precedence: “Somali-American. Son of a Camel Herder. Father of Twins.”
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Brother!
Neanderthal is more an attitude today than a species.
Given that contemporary Biology holds that modern humans still retain Neanderthal DNA (traits such as green eyes, red hair, etc.), it means that Neanderthal wasn’t really ever a separate species (otherwise interbreeding would produced sterile offspring.)
However, I’m totally okay with being characterized as “Neanderthal”.
I’d guess that, according to progressives, most Ricochetti are Neanderthals.
The complaints of a moribund culture that failed to progress past the neo-lithic age for 14,000 to 19,000 years is always amusing to me. Where but in the West would such a remnant exist? There were successive waves of migrations from Asia to the Americas that conquered and destroyed the previous culture effacing it entirely from the consciousness of the newly dominant culture. Odd how there is no tears for failed and effaced cultures except when the opportunity for undeserved moral capital, social status and subsidies are available.
Civilizational upgrades always require painful adaptation.
That’s not true. That’s not a requirement to be different species. Grizzlies and polar bears breed occasionally in the wild, for example. Lions and Tigers have been bred. Labradors and poodles too. Okay, they’re the same breed, but it’s still an abomination. :)
One helluva plot . . .
Gesundheit.
Wife (after Stad does something stupid): I didn’t know I married someone stupid.
Stad: Neither did I. (Stad ducks just in time)
One summer day in the 1820s, Shipshewana and Maketaimeshekiakiak (Black Hawk) both were at Fort Malden (in Canada, downstream from Detroit on the Detroit River) on the same day and got “presents” from the British for their services in the War of 1812. It was probably 1825, but I’d have to look it up to be sure. They were just two among hundreds of Indian leaders who made the annual trek in those years, along with a number of people who accompanied them.
Shipshewana was Potawatomi and had a relatively short distance to travel, Maketaimeshekiakiak had just about the greatest distance to travel, from his home at what is now Rock Island, IL. Shipshewana got an Amish town named after him. Black Hawk got a hockey team and a whole lot of other things named after him (though there was another famous Black Hawk who lived further west who got things named after him, too.) Shipshewana’s town got his Potawatomi name. I’m not aware of any places or organizations that have been given Black Hawk’s Sauk name. There are places and people that have the first part of Black Hawk’s name (Maketai) but that’s just the word for the color black.
I’m pretty sure that the “meshe” in Black Hawk’s name is cognate with the first part of the words Michigan and Mississippi. The meaning and pronunciation seem to vary slightly from Algonquian language to language, but in general you could say it means “big” or “great.”
I have no idea how to decipher Shipshewana’s name. I wouldn’t even recognize it as Potawatomi if I didn’t know from other sources that it was. But the British Indian agent who wrote it down had a pretty good ear for Indian languages and tended to transliterate them into English accurately and consistently. (I’m not sure “transliterate” is the right technical term, though. Maybe somebody here on Ricochet knows.) Maybe the “ship” part is something like the “jib/chip” in Ojibwe/Chippewa, but that still doesn’t get me anywhere.
Pursing to the rules of Victim Bingo, if I identify as Neanderthal can I declare all you Cro Magnon descendants as genocidal oppressors and move to the head of the line?
I’m thinking an ugly guy with brass jewels could be the Rachel Dolezal/Shaun King of Neanderthal rights. Throw in some sexual identity confusion and…cha-ching, baby!
Do they produce fertile young?
Species categories are a social construct. It’s easier to think in terms of categories than continuae (if that’s the right term) and most of us need all the thinking aids we can get.
I have no idea what that means.
Dan’l Boone or Davy Crockett might have offspring from a bear. I doubt I could.
What? Are you saying that you can’t name any species?
Who knew that everyone on Ricochet has red hair and green eyes?
That’s one reason to have them. You can name them. It’s better than referring to position 8.76 on the lactose-tolerant humanoid continuum, with a 95 % confidence interval of .07.
You better not be talking about somebody’s mother. ‘Cause those sound like fighting words.