An attorney for the troops called it “part of the administration’s absurd attempt to purge highly skilled and dedicated service members simply because they are transgender.”
Yeah - even in terms of “how white people treated them” there’s the idea of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” A Cherokee might be recognized as at least somewhat human, while an Apache as something to be shot on sight.
Yeah, some Cherokee even started owning slaves on their farms. Then a ton of them were very illegally kicked off by Andrew Jackson because the land had gold iirc. Didn’t matter how white they behaved, still got thrown aside as soon as they were an inconvenience. Which is something that all non straight white male conservatives should have realized a long time ago
Native American slavery wasn’t always the same sort of chattel slavery practiced by white Americans - intermarriage was a bit more common and the boundaries were often (if not always) fuzzier.
Yeah - even in terms of “how white people treated them” there’s the idea of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” A Cherokee might be recognized as at least somewhat human, while an Apache as something to be shot on sight.
Yeah, some Cherokee even started owning slaves on their farms. Then a ton of them were very illegally kicked off by Andrew Jackson because the land had gold iirc. Didn’t matter how white they behaved, still got thrown aside as soon as they were an inconvenience. Which is something that all non straight white male conservatives should have realized a long time ago
Yeah, there’s a long and bitter history of the descendants of those slaves getting tribal membership.
In very recent good news, the Muskogee freedmen just won their tribal memberships as well. IIRC, the Muskogee freedmen still have some unique dialects - me and a buddy threw around the idea of doing some documentation/research on it back in college.
Native American slavery wasn’t always the same sort of chattel slavery practiced by white Americans - intermarriage was a bit more common and the boundaries were often (if not always) fuzzier.