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Re: Juneteenth Official

Posted by Osmosis Jones on Sat Jun 19 04:42:29 2021, in response to Re: Juneteenth Official, posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jun 18 22:06:35 2021.

Native Americans played crucial role in settlers' survival

The Natives gave the Pilgrims food and greatly factored into their survival.

In one of my classes, I also remember reading about a Spanish explorer named Cabeza de Vaca. He shipwrecked on the Texas coast in 1527, and his party survived off of cannibalism until the disgusted Natives came upon them and gave them food. Other pilgrims would also exhume Native corpses and eat them, but I don't recall reading about de Vaca's crew specifically doing that. Later on, the Spaniards started to spread lies saying the tribe that helped da Vaca's crew practiced cannibalism themselves as a way to dehumanize the people of that tribe, but de Vaca lived amongst them for many years, writing a memoir of this time living with them, with no mention of the natives practicing cannibalism in that memoir whatsoever.

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