American Indians Colonize the Old world in 1250 BC

[TheCosmicKid]

A Kryptonian immigrant raised on the Kent family farm, heir to the property title, has a personal stake in the matter, though the heritage is adoptive rather than genetic.

I'd have said "Mars", but the reference to that other Justice Leaguer would not have been as clear. I think the point is made regardless.

SNL did a skit in which Kal-El happened to land in Germany, and he was raised with different values. If the capsule had landed farther north, and Kal-El grew up as an adopted Algonquin... "for truth, justice, and the Native American way!" Though his features might match less conveniently with his adoptive parents.

Marooned alien babies with superpowers are not only surprisingly common in comic book universes, but also uncannily fortuitous in matching the features of their adoptive parents. Only Dwayne McDuffie, it seems, has bothered explaining that his character Icon came in a lifepod which genetically altered his physiology to allow him to fit in (though crashing in a cotton field in the Antebellum South, it missed some of the broader implications of "fitting in").

 

[Thomas Bowman]

I'd have said "Mars", but the reference to that other Justice Leaguer would not have been as clear. I think the point is made regardless.

Marooned alien babies with superpowers are not only surprisingly common in comic book universes, but also uncannily fortuitous in matching the features of their adoptive parents. Only Dwayne McDuffie, it seems, has bothered explaining that his character Icon came in a lifepod which genetically altered his physiology to allow him to fit in (though crashing in a cotton field in the Antebellum South, it missed some of the broader implications of "fitting in").

Why don't you make this a separate thread, as you have gotten way off on a tangent here.

 

[Thomas Bowman]

A Kryptonian immigrant raised on the Kent family farm, heir to the property title, has a personal stake in the matter, though the heritage is adoptive rather than genetic.

SNL did a skit in which Kal-El happened to land in Germany, and he was raised with different values. If the capsule had landed farther north, and Kal-El grew up as an adopted Algonquin... "for truth, justice, and the Native American way!" Though his features might match less conveniently with his adoptive parents.

It doesn't have anything to do with a role playing setting however

 

[Eltab]

There are a few problems with "whose land is it / should it be?" that have not yet been addressed:

- there was a method by which land title was transferred from Indian Tribe to US Government.
- that process was easy to manipulate (get the Indian chief drunk and/or bribe him and/or give him special considerations).
- the problem of 'squatters' who showed up while / before the Government was surveying the tract of land in question.
- Indian social organization (disorganization?) that effectively meant anybody who did not personally sign a treaty was not bound by it.
- the wink-wink-nudge-nudge "it'll be different this time" attitude by many on all sides towards these known problems.

As pointed out a few pages back, there is more to it than making a claim of moral superiority for yourself / your side, and pointing accusing fingers at everybody who does not rally to you.

 

[Gradine]

The way I like to put it is: would my moral duty be any different if my ancestors had nothing to do with anything because I was a first-generation immigrant from, oh, let's say Krypton?

No, but then I think that is rather the point of that particular first-gen immigrant's story, wouldn't you agree?

 

[Gradine]

Genocide is a very loaded word. I consider it more of an accident of history.

Fun fact: The above is an extremely political opinion.

Also objectively wrong, but well, we've already covered that.

 

[dragoner]

Fun fact: The above is an extremely political opinion.

Also objectively wrong, but well, we've already covered that.

Insulting too, my wife is half Apache, and she would find the statement to be a personal insult; so he should feel guilt at being rude and personally insulting to people, which he seems to being trying to assuage with other political terms like "white guilt", where he is the only one to bring those terms up. I'd hate to see what lexicon those terms are from.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I'm 1/8th Cherokee and I'm not insulted. But this whole thread has veered from gaming to political.

 

[Thomas Bowman]

I'm 1/8th Cherokee and I'm not insulted. But this whole thread has veered from gaming to political.

Your right.

 

[Gradine]

I'm 1/8th Cherokee and I'm not insulted.

I would assume that the issue at stake here is more cultural than biological.

But this whole thread has veered from gaming to political.

Given the subject matter and the OP's flagrant disregard for handling it with anything remotely approaching respect (or historical research), I could have guessed that would have been inevitable.