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jmbar2

(5,028 posts)
1. Wow! That's really powerful
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:53 AM
Oct 2021

Also the post this morning about the people who tried to prevent kids from going to school.

THIS is what needs to be taught. Whites should be reminded about this.

mahatmakanejeeves

(58,263 posts)
3. That's a great Photoshop, but it's just too good to be true. I'm not buying it.
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:55 AM
Oct 2021

I didn't click through to the article at Daily Kos. Got some things to do now.

If I'm proven wrong, I'll be delighted.

mahatmakanejeeves

(58,263 posts)
7. I was alive in 1966, and it just doesn't look like something that would show up in a newspaper
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 11:18 AM
Oct 2021

back then.

I still have my suspicions, but if I'm wrong, so be it. I would be truly taken aback.

Thanks.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,842 posts)
10. Well, Walt Kelly was satirizing the government in daily Pogo strips as far back as the 50's
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 11:41 AM
Oct 2021

I’m kind of surprised to see it in Orphan Annie, but not surprised to see it in 1966.

thucythucy

(8,250 posts)
5. According to a post in the second link
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 11:13 AM
Oct 2021

these can be found in the January 1966 issues of the Hartford Courant.

I didn't go to their archives to check on this though.

rog

(664 posts)
6. From the comments, looks like it's legit.
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 11:17 AM
Oct 2021

This commenter did some digging and found the strips on Newspapers.com.

https://www.dailykos.com/comments/2055802/81968598#comment_81968598

I was Intrigued enough by this to do some digging on Newspapers.com….

The strips Quarkstomper posted are totally legit, as I found them in January 1966 editions of the Hartford Courant.


The comment also has more frames from the same story line.

♫rog♫

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
9. "... gave a big piece of this mountain country to cherokees", more properly phrased:
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 11:27 AM
Oct 2021

"stole almost all land from the cherokees, except a big piece of this mountain country".

Good on Orphan Annie though for going a little way toward the truth.

andym

(5,457 posts)
12. Georgia Gold Rush:The comics were real according to two Kos posters who checked newspapers from 1966
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 12:04 PM
Oct 2021

and the story related by ultra-conservative Harold Gray, the anti-FDR cartoonist who drew Lil Orphan Annie, about the Cherokees being forced off their lands in part because of gold is true as well, although there was a strong general sentiment of greed infecting their white neighbors to provoke taking the tribal lands from native peoples, even where there was no gold.

The Georgia Gold Rush in 1829 led to the Trail of Tears via the Indian Removal Act of 1830, although there was a general desire in the US government and at least its citizens in the South to claim lands occupied by these native sovereign nations. The Indian Removal Act ultimately caused the removal of 5 tribal peoples across the South, the the gold rush was one of the events that helped precipitate it.

Andrew Jackson in particular represented large groups of southern US citizens who wanted native Americans removed for access to their lands for agriculture and economic opportunity. The US Supreme Court ruled that the tribes were sovereign nations in "Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Court ruled that Georgia could not impose laws in Cherokee territory, since only the national government — not state governments — had authority in Indian affairs." The ruling could have been consequential as Georgia was seizing land from the Cherokees and holding lotteries to hand it over to its state citizens. The ruling was ignored by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren as well as the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Gold_Rush
"The culmination of tensions between the Cherokee and various states, including Georgia, led to the forced migration of Native Americans, later known as the Trail of Tears.[5] President Andrew Jackson authorized the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which would allow a takeover of the gold mining areas among other places. The Cherokee Nation turned to the federal court system to avoid being forced off their ancestral lands. The Supreme Court first ruled in favor of the State of Georgia in the 1831 case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, but the following year, in Worcester v. Georgia reversed this decision to recognize the Cherokee as a sovereign nation. Jackson proceeded with removal of remaining Cherokee from the North Georgia gold fields.

The Philadelphia Mint received over half a million dollars in gold from Georgia in 1832.[3]: 28  The state of Georgia held the Gold Lottery of 1832 and awarded land, which had been owned by the Cherokee, to the winners in 40-acre (16 ha) tracts. The Philadelphia Mint received $1,098,900 in gold from Georgia between 1830 and 1837."

Interestingly:
"Before they were expelled, the Cherokee gained enough gold-mining experience to participate in later gold rushes in California in 1849 and Colorado in 1859. Cherokee gold miners gave the name to the town of Cherokee, California, as well as to a number of other geographic features in that state's gold-mining region."

FM123

(10,059 posts)
13. I really do think this could have been from 1966. This is what else was happening that year:
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 12:03 AM
Oct 2021

"An emergency conference of 80 tribal leaders is called by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) to respond to the US Congressional meeting to discuss the reorganization of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in which the NCAI was not permitted to attend. After Native people pushed, the chairperson of the House Commission on Interior and Insular Affairs, Morris Udall, agreed to the NCAIs admission and to create a group of tribespeople, called the Tribal Advisory Commission, to advise him in his position."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_and_Native_American_relations

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