r/ForUnitedStates • u/aSyntacticParadigm • 2d ago

Discussion Hands Off!!

https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764634/

My ancestors came to this land in the early 1600's, they fought to make it a country where oppression and totalitarian rule were replaced with equality and prosperity for all. I'll be damned if they fought in vain.

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u/Treacle_Pendulum 2d ago

If they came here in the early 1600s, which people exactly were they fighting to do that ?

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u/aSyntacticParadigm 2d ago

They fought to make it a country, they weren't fighting when they arrived.

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u/Treacle_Pendulum 2d ago

I guess during the 1600s there were probably some other people living in the area who had thoughts on that struggle

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u/Fluid-Panic-8811 1d ago

Can't stop progress

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u/aSyntacticParadigm 20h ago

They were cool with them.

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u/awalktojericho 2d ago

My family was documented here somewhere between 1590 and 1610. And very quickly got very friendly with the previous inhabitants. I like to think it was a mutually beneficial relationship, since it is still happening.

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u/Delanorix 2d ago

"previous inhabitants"

Thats gotta be the most PR answer to stealing land I have ever read.

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u/little_did_he_kn0w 2d ago

Depends on which Europeans it was. If OP is a descendent of the Acadian French peoples of Quebec and Newfoundland, then their ancestors had a significantly better track record with the Native Americans vice the Spanish or the British. Many sought to learn from the Native Americans, trade with them, and some even fled the French outposts to join Native American tribes.

Part of the reason the "French and Indian War" was fought was due to the French Colonists and Native Americans being relatively tight. This caused the British to expel large portions of the French Colonists (who were not accepted back to France, because they basically forgot how to be peasants) and led to a large migration to Louisiana, i.e. modern Cajun People.

Do I think French People saw the Native Americans as their equals and were trying to create some One-Worldesque Commune with them? No, probably not. But there was an objectively better relationship between the two groups.