[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[George Dixon]

hmm...
"ask any native american indian what they think of
the treatment the fore-fathers of america gave their
> ancestors.

Ask the Sioux about the Chipewa celebration each year (to this day) on 
Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota.
The Chipewa tribe marks the occasion when in 1609 they defeated the last 
Sioux and drove them west, out of Minnesota's forests and onto the 
plains.
This was the culmination of the Chipewa migration south out of what is 
now Canada.  The battle of Cut-foot-Sioux was the culmination another 
territorial seizure through the violent displacement of the previous 
inhabitants of the land by early immigrants (aka "native Americans").

G Dixon
(born here so I'm a "Native American" too)