This is something a friend emailed me. Perhaps it’s something that’s been around and around the Interwebitubes, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. Hard to argue against.
Indian Chief, ‘Two Eagles,’ was asked by a white government official, “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.”
The Chief nodded in agreement.
The official continued, “Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?”
The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. “When white man find land, Indians running it. No taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water; women did all the work, medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night making love.”
Then the chief leaned back and smiled.
“Only white man dumb enough to think he can improve system like that.”
Thanks to Rustan Gandvik via Kevin Berg
Yep, also supposedly knew about the wheel but couldn’t figure out any uses for it.
Beside dying rather young and having a society that fell when it came up against technology–nothing wrong with it at all unless you as implied were a woman, a young person, an old person, or not of the tribe.
Or if you were the environment. Despite the modern revisionist history, those tribes were excellent at deforestation, killing species, and throwing trash everywhere.
Right on the other points though. Why are we paying for Indian health care when we should be paying them for their medicine men?
I could live the tribal life, as long as there was air conditioning and broadband.
# 4 and i get to run the casinos,
LOL
Excellent joke!
There is no going back, but perhaps we can move forward.
I wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for technological advances in the medical field.
Let’s see your witch doctor treat my terminal illness.
#1-3;
You guys are wonderful examples of the human race. [/sarcasm]
#11–Nate==if you “REALLY” wanted to live as the indians used to, why, I would let you do just that very thing.
What is all that admirable about a society most would not choose to live in? (/analysis)
The famous picture is titled: “Man Afraid of His Horses” kills cousin to marry auntie! (Lord I apologize for this lying about this caption!)
The “native” guy with a spear is wearing a loin cloth and pants. This reminds me of that trend in the 80’s when people would wear shorts over sweat pants. On the rock it there is a caption “Indian Paradise.” Is this really paradise? Wouldn’t Mr. Native like to pull up to Joe’s Catfish shack in an Escalade with shinny wheels? Some hush puppies would go nice with your fish and coke. Maybe have some Credence Bad Moon Rising rocking out your old lady yapping on her cell phone.
This story is actually very parallel to Heinrich Böll’s anecdode of the fisherman: http://www.bluinc.com/free/fisher.html (that’s an american re-telling of the story, the original was set in Portugal and the white man was not a banker).
pj
“Only white man dumb enough to think he can improve system like that.”
Obviously, nothing has changed in a couple of hundred years, except now the white man owes 700 trillion dollars to the rest of the world, puts one in ten of his fellow citizens in jail at any given time and has elected a chimpanzee as President – twice in a row.
White men sure hasn’t gotten any smarter.
When I load this page as a tab in Firefox, it says The Dumb White Man Dvorak, with a picture to boot.
#16 It does! LOL.
Pedro, no supporting evidence required…WE BELIEVE YOU. (cough,illegal immigrant).
I don’t think that the punch line is a fair characterization… not ALL republicans are white.
21,
NOW you’re going to tell me that NONE of the KKK is Black.
The Repub’s are as BAD as Mormans. WHOM just let OTHER races into the church. i dont know if they LET them into Temple yet, but it WAS a big step for them.
I like the thought of plenty of Beaver.