Asmallbitofanxiety
Asmallbitofanxiety t1_iu5tsp9 wrote
Reply to TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake." by marmorset
Lmfao I bet you anything that little snake was really about their dicks
"Yeah those guys are not cool we call them the tiny penis tribe don't even bother talking to them"
Asmallbitofanxiety t1_it4074v wrote
Reply to comment by Hand-Picked-Anus in States Get More Than $66.7M for Collaborative Efforts to Conserve Most Imperiled Species | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service by VespaLimeGreen
See: superfund
And we're still making these messes faster than we're cleaning them up
Asmallbitofanxiety t1_iue0m39 wrote
Reply to comment by kafka123 in TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake." by marmorset
>It doesn't have to be to be an insult, though.
It doesn't HAVE to be but I'd bet you anything it was penis related
>"That group is a bunch of f**king snakes".
I'm no expert but I am pretty sure that usage of snake is a distinctly biblical/Judeo-Christian/European connotation that would not be part of Native American parlance prior to colonization
Snakes and snake imagery are often seen in a revered context in Mayan, Aztec, and other ancient Native American cultural heritages