{"id":74459,"date":"2020-06-16T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74459"},"modified":"2020-06-16T05:51:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:51:27","slug":"74459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74459","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Back in the 1800&#8217;s, after the United States bought the Louisiana Purchase which extended its territory from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains,\u00a0 our young nation encountered Indian nations living on the lands we bought.\u00a0 Conflicts ensued, which were settled by a series of treaties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The land on which the statute of Christopher Columbus sat on the grounds of the State Capitol was not &#8220;stolen&#8221; from the Indians.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colinmustful.com\/zebulon-pike-and-the-sioux-treaty-of-september-23-1805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.colinmustful.com\/zebulon-pike-and-the-sioux-treaty-of-september-23-1805\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592303129526000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6qMWSDlEbQKMk9bmNyTKmbHuhsg\">The Indians sold it to us<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Indians want it back.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the behavior that gave rise to the term &#8220;Indian giver.&#8221;\u00a0 The fact the Governor and Lt. Governor don&#8217;t understand the history of the state they govern, is shameful.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>True enough.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to Big Left, it&#8217;s never about history,  math, or any other factual basis of analysis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s inevitably about because shut up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 1800&#8217;s, after the United States bought the Louisiana Purchase which extended its territory from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains,\u00a0 our young nation encountered Indian nations living on the lands we bought.\u00a0 Conflicts ensued, which were settled by a series of treaties.\u00a0 The land on which the statute of Christopher Columbus sat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74461,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74459\/revisions\/74461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}