@walterbays The United States worked to systematically destroy Native American culture and language, and then one of those languages helped us win the Second World War.
That seems pretty ironic to me.
@NiveusLepus Ah, like the Navajo code talkers. Didn't recognize the photo. Thanks.
I think there was a movie about it a few years ago.
@walterbays Wind talkers with Nicholas Cage.
@NiveusLepus Thank you!
@walterbays You're welcome.
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@NiveusLepus @walterbays In doing so they saved much more than just this nation. Imagine a world where Hitler won.
@Lucky188 @NiveusLepus A bit of a tangent: I read Empire of the Summer Moon for some of the history not allowed to be taught in school. I was struck by how accurately the epithets savage and barbarian described some of the tribes. But far more savage and barbarian were the American, Texan, and Spanish "tribes".
@NiveusLepus Elaborate?