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What is it With Teams Who Have Indians as Mascots
Oct 25, 2016, 4:27 PM
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Truly, unless you count rampant alcoholism and casino construction they are not relevant and certainly not fierce or scary since the mid 1800s. Very frankly if some painted dude on a horse with a flaming spear was coming to kill me I would drop him at 100 yards with a .450 Bushmaster or let him get to 25 yards and pop him with a 12-round drum of 000 Buck from the Saiga. If I were feeling froggy I might wait until he was 10 yards out and de-saddle him with my Grandfather's WWII Colt .45.
Silly Seminoles get a new mascot, something relevant to Panhandle Florida, like maybe the FSU Inbred Swamp Bumpkins, now that would be scary.
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You any blood kin to BuzzPaw??***
Oct 25, 2016, 4:35 PM
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Re: What is it With Teams Who Have Indians as Mascots
Oct 25, 2016, 4:51 PM
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The Seminole tribe are the only indigenous North American tribe that never settled with the US government on a treatise of surrender . That is very significant , and something to be extremely proud of for those people who claim the ancestry .
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It's only because no one wanted their
Oct 25, 2016, 5:20 PM
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Swamp much like now
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Re: It's only because no one wanted their
Oct 25, 2016, 6:55 PM
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> Swamp much like now
Whatever the case it's still significant and it's not like they are some generic Indian name. Show some respect for fellow Americans. You act like taking the Indians land was right or justified.
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Re: It's only because no one wanted their
Oct 25, 2016, 10:12 PM
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I think that the small band of Seminoles (less than 200 ) who refused to surrender to the federals demands and be relocated , fought successfully from a precarious position without any reinforcement or hope of help outside of themselves should be commended and remembered as American heroes . Maybe that is just me .
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Re: It's only because no one wanted their
Oct 25, 2016, 10:38 PM
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I fully agree.
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It's intersting history, the Seminoles had reminnents of Yemassee
Oct 25, 2016, 10:38 PM
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which if you research were responsible for the Good Friday massacre and subsequent Yemassee uprising against the Charles town colonists and Lords Proprietors. They almost took out the colony but the English reenforced and had some help from the Cherokee and ultimately defeated the multi-tribed Yemassee. They pushed them south and into Spanish Florida where they joined the Seminoles. It's also interesting that Seminole translates to 'refugee'.
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Be careful with violent imagery. Security issues.
Oct 25, 2016, 5:27 PM
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Re: Be careful with violent imagery. Security issues.
Oct 25, 2016, 6:53 PM
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Is this really a serious post?
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Eh. Still scarier than a Chicken for a mascot.***
Oct 25, 2016, 9:45 PM
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WWII Colt .45?
Oct 25, 2016, 9:55 PM
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What we talking? Army model? Navy? You come across hard times I'll make you an offer
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Navy Remington If I Remember a 1938 Production
Oct 25, 2016, 11:14 PM
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I would eat Doodooo ice at the Roach before selling. I have the Navy Form signed by some shavetail Ensign where my Grandfather was authorized to bring it and an Arisaka rifle back to the US.
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What is it about people who have nothing better to do than
Oct 25, 2016, 10:07 PM
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complain about nicknames that the vast majority of Native Americans have said they have no problem with?
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Check Your Humor Meter
Oct 25, 2016, 11:16 PM
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Anyone who comes on here expecting serious talk on a Tuesday is like looking for Coot wins in Columbia. Ain't gonna happen.
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Re: What is it With Teams Who Have Indians as Mascots
Oct 25, 2016, 10:36 PM
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That post is just wrong on so many levels. Call any other race a bunch of alcoholics and it would be blatant racism. Most Native Americans(including me and my family) are proud of our heritage. Even though I am not Seminole, I can assure you that the vast majority of the Seminole tribe takes pride in the FSU mascot. I do not like FSU, I bleed Orange, but keep the racist crap to yourself.
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I see nothing wrong.
Oct 25, 2016, 11:41 PM
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I respect them. Far far far better than fighting banana slugs.
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...or chicken.***
Oct 25, 2016, 11:42 PM
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