What is the most important story in your life right now?
Posted on Jul 16th, 2008
by 
boogie
boogie
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 14, 2008:
oh, but it's such a very long story. and it has no ending! and the history you were taught in school has it all wrong...
we can start with Jamestown, that's a good enough place, i think. but the story really goes way way back, much earlier than the "colonization" of our beautiful continent...
so let's see.
Virginia was often referred to by the early European explorers as the "land of many peoples" it was the center of trade for a great part of Eastern Turtle Island. This continent was already full of people when the Europeans started to arrive.
old timey ship captains, they were real supserstitious, you know. women weren't allowed on sea-going vessels. so those first european colonies, they were all men and boys, no women.
did you get that? THERE WERE NO EUROPEAN WOMEN AT JAMESTOWN!!!
There is a forged ship manifest, listing the "Christian" names of the settlers' wives as having been brought over later, but you will not find those women in records in Europe anywhere, because they were never there.
just for clarity's sake, let's skip ahead a couple hundred years:
One of the main reasons for the Civil War was cultural cleansing, to erase the past! The Union Army was responsible for destroying as many cemeteries and churches (esp the records the churches kept) in the South, in Virginia, in particular.
My father's family's cemetery was not destroyed. It is still there, and my father is buried in it.
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So the crops the Europeans brought over were not suited to growing in this climate, even though the land is very fertile. The settlers were starving to death. Native People felt pity for them and tried to help them grow corn, and squash, and beans. Those settlers who did not refuse the help of the so-called "savages" learned to survive, the others were dying off at an alarming rate.
According to the diaries passed down in my family, in attempts to communicate with them, the Europeans found that it was easier to teach the savages to speak English than it was to try to learn a Native language themselves.
we can start with Jamestown, that's a good enough place, i think. but the story really goes way way back, much earlier than the "colonization" of our beautiful continent...
so let's see.
Virginia was often referred to by the early European explorers as the "land of many peoples" it was the center of trade for a great part of Eastern Turtle Island. This continent was already full of people when the Europeans started to arrive.
old timey ship captains, they were real supserstitious, you know. women weren't allowed on sea-going vessels. so those first european colonies, they were all men and boys, no women.
did you get that? THERE WERE NO EUROPEAN WOMEN AT JAMESTOWN!!!
There is a forged ship manifest, listing the "Christian" names of the settlers' wives as having been brought over later, but you will not find those women in records in Europe anywhere, because they were never there.
just for clarity's sake, let's skip ahead a couple hundred years:
One of the main reasons for the Civil War was cultural cleansing, to erase the past! The Union Army was responsible for destroying as many cemeteries and churches (esp the records the churches kept) in the South, in Virginia, in particular.
My father's family's cemetery was not destroyed. It is still there, and my father is buried in it.
***
So the crops the Europeans brought over were not suited to growing in this climate, even though the land is very fertile. The settlers were starving to death. Native People felt pity for them and tried to help them grow corn, and squash, and beans. Those settlers who did not refuse the help of the so-called "savages" learned to survive, the others were dying off at an alarming rate.
According to the diaries passed down in my family, in attempts to communicate with them, the Europeans found that it was easier to teach the savages to speak English than it was to try to learn a Native language themselves.
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August 2008 
shall i elaborate?
think of this, imagine a rather small wooden ship, full of women, on a very long journey across the Atlantic…
all those women get to cycling together.
have you ever been aboard a big boat? it smells. even ships from world war II, you can still smell the men who lived aboard them. doesn't matter how hard you scrub or with what chemicals, that smell never goes away.
consider the maps of the time. Surely you've seen one. “Here Be Monsters” they always say. if you were a ship captain, would you sail a ship that smells of blood through waters infested with huge scary monsters?
Sometimes I wonder how people actually swallow this stuff willingly and take it as the supreme truth. :-D
History is sooooo skewed and twisted, one MUST use their own common sense, just like you did. ;-)
Love You and Your Truth~~<3
You might be interested in this radio show, which is put on by a housemate of mine from college: www.indigenouspolitics.com (she is native Hawaiian, and is interviewing indigenous people from all over). Her stuff is mostly from academics looking into history and legal challenges, but she might be interested in hearing your story as well.
your story of jamestown has been told (relatively honestly) in the 2005 film The New World
(trailer found here)—NOW they just need to rewrite the history books !