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As an American Indian I am so blessed that God took this country and set it up to promote freedom of religion. Otherwise our people would still be doing rain dances etc to try to apease the Gods. There was a lot of suffering and disgrace the way the people were treated, but there was a lot of false beliefs too. We had many men of God that wrote the constitution and bill of rights etc that were purposed to a righteoous cause.

Alyssa Miller, NOM facebook page 100 Comments [9/4/2010 9:47:09 AM]
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#1202984
AuraTwilight

Yea, someone named "Alyssa Miller" who calls herself an "American Indian" is totally a Native American.

9/5/2010 2:22:47 PM

#1203003
SpukiKitty

"As an American Indian..."

If she's an Indigenous American...Then I'm a two-headed green unicorn named Bob Dobbs from Planet Gorblatt-12!

9/5/2010 3:01:04 PM

#1203052
breakerslion

@ SpukiKitty

That's silly! Everyone knows the Dobbs family of unicorns are from Gorblatt 11 and only the females are two-headed once in a while! ;-)

9/5/2010 6:31:33 PM

#1203170


With white name like that, I call for major bullshit.

Any self respecting Native American, if you happen to even see them now loathe Christianity with a burning passion for obvious reasons.

9/5/2010 10:32:36 PM

#1203197


Poe?

9/6/2010 12:14:42 AM

#1203374
SeekerLancer

Glad you liked having your culture destroyed.

9/6/2010 7:18:25 AM

#1203429
Berny

I'm thinking that what we have here is actually a sock-puppet pretending to be an American Indian.

9/6/2010 8:51:41 AM

#1203670
tmarcl

We had many men of God that wrote the constitution and bill of rights etc that were purposed to a righteoous cause.

I'm currently reading "Lies my teacher told me." It suggests that early European explorers took Native American belief systems back with them, and that those belief systems influenced the Enlightenment a great deal. The Enlightenment, of course, influenced the aforementioned Constitution and Bill of Rights.


9/6/2010 6:05:53 PM

#1203672
tmarcl

@Percy:

Given the topic, that girl better be a Native American.
Just sayin...

Also, to everyone commenting on the OP's ancestry, No True Scotsman much?

9/6/2010 6:10:36 PM

#1203678
RevDG

i'm thinking you either are not a native american or you are so ignorant of history that you fucking have no clue about how america was before the europians came.

oh yeah, do you thank god for smallpox?

9/6/2010 6:42:53 PM

#1204028
Sarah

Re Labels: I remember reading about some inter-tribal council out West deciding that they wanted to be called "American Indians" rather than "Native Americans" and that in Arizona the signs typically read "Indian Country"--maybe it's an east/west thing, I don't know.

I do know that the Hopis still do rain dances to get rain...which they can do because after long periods of forcing kids into boarding schools where they were forced to give up their culture, the US government finally decided to pay more than lip service to that whole "1st amendment" thing.

The scary thing is that Alyssa Miller could very well be part American Indian despite her name. I feel horrible for her family and tribe.

9/7/2010 9:11:10 AM

#1204142
Xotan

An Aunt Thomasina, eh!

9/7/2010 12:25:15 PM

#1204606
elphada

Holy crap, woman! Please do a bit of research on our Constitution and genocide of our Native Americans. Quit the religious blubbering and stand up.

9/8/2010 3:13:51 PM

#1205027
Shadoboy

Stockholm syndrome is pretty harsh...

9/9/2010 1:40:51 PM

#1205047


Your right! Thank you for thanking them. Now if we could get those friekn African American's to thank us we would be all set.

9/9/2010 2:54:37 PM

#1205310
vaiyt

Freedom of religion.

You keep saying those words. They do not mean what you think they mean.

9/10/2010 1:53:50 PM

#1205323
Pirate

Freedom of religion = forced christianity? as many a sci-fi robot has said: "does not compute"

9/10/2010 2:37:49 PM

#1205324
David B.

"Otherwise our people would still be doing rain dances etc to try to appease the Gods."

Because praying and singing and witnessing to appease one makes so much more sense.

9/10/2010 2:41:03 PM

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Doubting Thomas

Um, didn't the American Indians pretty much live the way they wanted to before the white man came here? They didn't really need a document promoting freedom of religion.

9/13/2010 11:17:19 AM

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SpukiKitty

Accidently swallowed detergent or one-too-many sleeping pills?....
Forget the Ipecac...JUST READ THIS!

9/26/2010 7:06:49 AM

#1211686
Gayatri

I seriously doubt that this wasn't written by a Native American. In all likelihood, it was written by someone who believes that the white people 'saved' the Natives from their "barbaric practices and religion".

If, in the remotest chance that Alyssa Miller is, in fact, a Native American, then wow at so much self-hatred. She doesn't need the Constitution, she needs therapy.

9/26/2010 10:12:14 AM

#1265382
Canama

You probably love the fact that our ancestors killed yours and stole your land, too.

3/9/2011 5:11:33 PM

#1336689


No, no, no. Freedom of religion means the Native Americans should have been allowed to keep doing their rain dances, instead of being forced to convert to Christianity. Also, the Europeans spent about 150 years killing Native Americans before the first 13 colonies became the United States. So what part of those years was good or productive in any way toward gaining "freedom of religion?"

9/30/2011 3:46:52 PM

#1336742
Rina

What. The. Fuck.?

10/1/2011 1:29:27 AM

#1468263
Ebon

Epic history fail.

11/11/2012 9:47:54 PM
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