Lee I wonder, is it George Washington next week Thomas Jefferson the week after Where does it stop? The short answer is that it doesnt stop until the US contends not only with its history of slavery but also its history of dispossession. Following the 2017 clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Trump presciently observed: So, this week its Robert E. While SFFilmsDoc Stories showcase runs through next Tues/8 (see our previewhere), theres no lack of new documentary features concurrently finding their way to regular release. What was George Washington's favorite fruit? with filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman"Town Destroyer the Art of Controversy". | Benjamin Fanjoy/The Standard 48 Hills welcomes comments in the form of letters to the editor, which you can submithere. Conotocaurius (Town Destroyer) was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois peoples in 1753. Forty Indian villagesand a powerful indigenous nationwere razed on the orders of George Washington, Town Destroyer Versus the Iroquois Indians, By 1779, George Washington had already earned the famous moniker "Father of His Country." Both Washington and Jefferson enslaved and waged war against Indigenous nations to dispossess them of their homelands. It is interesting to see close-up the strategizing of such groups, including their straight-up asking citizens to be single-issue voters, even if they have to hold their noses in pulling the lever for last-minute ally Trump. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. copy, DNA: RG 233, First Congress, 17891791, Records of the Office of the Clerk, Records of Reports from Executive Departments (War Department), Confidential Reports Summary: George Washington (1732-1799), nicknamed the "American Cincinnatus", was the 1st American President and served in office from 1789-1797. By August, the expedition was moving through Iroquois country, meeting almost no resistance. Battlegroundhas already had a brief run in theaters, but now is available for streaming on digital platforms including iTunes. David Humphreys Life of General Washington with George Washingtons Remarks. It may be very small in your ears, & we therefore entreat you to hearken with attention. the United States, and research and development projects to bring historical records to the Does this promise bind you? A dispute erupts at a San Francisco high school over Depression-era murals about the life of George Washington: slaveowner, military leader, land speculator, President, and a man Native leaders. We have already said how we came to join against you. This devastating history has been papered over with myth, in a familiar national narrative established by writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, whose father, like Washington, was a successful speculator in Native land. Its time to reckon with a US founding father who waged genocidal warfare against Indigenous nations. Anthony List are very well-organized, and there is no questioning the earnestness of their members. Organizations like Students for Life of America and the Susan B. They demand equal rights for unborn humans, hoping not just that abortion will become illegal, but abortion will become unthinkable. March for Life in January 2020 to save the babies. We see groups of collegiate women who travel to a D.C. They then left us to consider the bargain till the next day. When the Sun goes down, he opens his heart before God, and earlier than that Sun appears again upon the Hills, he gives thanks for his protection during the night, for he feels, that among men become desperate by their danger, it is God only that can preserve him. The Haudenosaunee took notice of General George Washingtons actions. It is quite an image, and one difficult to reconcile with the man known by many Indians as the "Town Destroyer," a name originally claimed by his great-grandfather for the fighting he did along the Potomac frontier in the 1670s, and which our Washington appears to have appropriated and used when it served his purposes.
Just an hour long, Snitow and Kaufmans documentary offers a fascinating overview of a case that encapsulates many of the bitterest divisions of our era. Cynthia LowensBattlegroundoffers some insight on that score. Would You Pay to Live in Facebooks Metaverse? White supremacy, grounded in the Doctrine of Discovery the absurd claim by European Christians and their American descendants that they were more entitled to our lands than we were was the rationale for dispossession.
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