Text 36770, 36 rader
Skriven 2016-09-21 14:06:00 av Allen Prunty (1:2320/100)
  Kommentar till text 36749 av Joe Delahaye (62797.fidonews)
Ärende: USA is maybe not so great any more?
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* In a message originally to Allen Prunty, Joe Delahaye said:

 JD> There were no written records.  Pictorial ones perhaps

That's a very ignroant and racist thing to say.  Tslagi (the language
of the Cherokee) was formally documented in the early 1800's...
however there are more ancient writings that date back beyond that.

The Cherokee had means to record their Genealogies and lineages, which
were very important to the tribes.

Other tribes that are still considered Native Americans like the
Mayans have had written languages that existed for centuries before
mdoern English arrived on the scene in the middle 1600s.

Most all Native American languages have common roots.  To say that
their only history is cave paintings is like saying the only history
of white people are the paintings in the old Churches.

Also most of the American White people were illiterate even in the
late 1800's and early 1900's if you don't believe me go to
ancestry.com and look at some of the census images where it records if
people can read/write, very few could.  Even my Scottish Ancestor who
fought in the revolutionary war and was well to do financially had to
sign his name with an "X".

I have copies of a Cherokee newspaper dated in the 1830's that had
both Tslagi and English in columns side by side and I have a bible in
Cherokee.  You might find that more Cherokee of that period were
literate than English speaking Americans.

Allen


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