It's pretty telling how consistent it is that when European settlers assimilated into Native communities they never expressed any interest in coming back but when the reverse occurred people tried to escape and return constantlyhttps://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1295440935157989377 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It’s neat we finally have proof of this because I was always amazed it wasn’t obvious to the English that showed up later. I mean I love the monster stories we got, but come on now.
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Replying to @markemer
I'm reminded of a movie I saw where a character comes home from college to find his parents have "mysteriously disappeared" despite the many signs that they retired and moved to Florida, including the voicemails they left him that he hasn't checked
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Replying to @arthur_affect @markemer
We’ve always had proof, though. The Lumbee People have *always* told everyone this was what happened. It’s been known for centuries. White people have just been unwilling to accept the evidence. There was never a “mystery” beyond “Why deny the historical record?”
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Replying to @thisniss @arthur_affect
I didn’t know that. But that makes sense. Of course we didn’t listen.
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Replying to @markemer @arthur_affect
I didn’t know it till I moved to North Carolina and met Lumbee folks. I was taught the “mystery” version in US History. But they’ve been here all along.
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I was taught the "mystery" version and I vividly remember that in class discussion the possibility of attack and slaughter or capture were raised as likely. The old propaganda still alive and working in defense of colonization.
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I mean, I wouldn’t blame them for killing the colonizers. But the idea they peacefully moved in together makes way more sense.
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My point is the theories we were discussing mapped exactly onto the propaganda popularized in colonial times. The Indian Captive narratives being a hugely popular genre of both fiction and memoir.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @markemer and
The colony leaders needed *something* to persuade people not to go live with the Natives.
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Reminds me of thispic.twitter.com/iDbgEj5Cfs
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