Given the track record of the Vikings, I'd be surprised if the Vikings and the Natives were singing kumbaya round the fire together, so I wouldn't be quick to call this Erikson man a friend to Natives. People also need to stop thinking of Native Americans as this romanticised peaceful group who went to war never. They had their inter-tribal conflicts and would have been as fiercely defensive over their land as people in any other part of the world were back then.
More than likely the Vikings fought with the Natives, because that's generally how shit went down wherever The Vikings landed.
More than likely the Vikings fought with the Natives, because that's generally how shit went down wherever The Vikings landed.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
