Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:16:46AM -0500, Klein Moebius wrote:
> * Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> [2007-05-31 21:58:47 -0400]:
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> > In fact, at the time of the naming (1776), there were no other recognized
> > "states" in the Americas. Just colonies.
>
> I think Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Apache, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Sioux,
> Blackfoot, and a host of other peoples I've failed to mention here would
> take issue with that statement.
Why? They were not states, or at least not nation-states.
The Aztecs and Incas had nation-states. The Maya and other Mesoamerican
peoples had city-states. By 1776 they had been crushed. In that time
period, the North American Indians were not organized into nation-states
(although apparently peoples like the Mound Builders had been in the past).
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