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I thought this might speak to the heart of the matter for you gentlemen at this time in your Country.




God Bless You All and Your Families.

Miss Lynn

Well done, Miss Lynn.

Thanks Lynn,

Grand Slam Ms Lynn.....

Speaks for lots of us.

Thanks!

Definately knocked it out of the park! Bravo Miss Lynn!!

Good stuff, Lady.

Whats that a friggin Mauser?

Why yes, it is a Mauser.

Reminds me of Biden's closing remarks at the last debate. Essentially, take a knee America and we'll stop killing you and burning your cities.

That's worth the ink.

Well said.

Spot on!

Thank you Miss Lynn


I few more to think about:
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors....... Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light..........Plato

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis...........Dante Alighieri

All of the above. Excellent post.

Miss Lynn:

I sent to all of my closest e-mail partners. Thanks for posting .

KC

Sure does.

Funny how a Canadian can understand it better than a lot of folks in their own damn country.

Are you sure you didn't migrate to Canada from the US Miss Lynn?

Similar to this.

My Father was a great believer in "If you don't use your right to vote, you should have no opinions, nor criticisms, in the days yet to come".

Lynn

Paul,

I do understand, and for more than one reason, and yes, American is in my blood, and I have family all over the USA, and I am so very proud to say it.


This is my great great great great grandfather who was a Minnesota Frontiersman.






Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest," he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota. He was an accomplished surveyor and his many settlement parties founded cities all over Minnesota and North Dakota. Those settlements would become cities such as Osseo, Minnesota and Maple Grove, Minnesota northwest of the Twin Cities, as well as Breckenridge, Minnesota and Wahpeton, North Dakota on either side of the Red River of the North. He also took part in the founding of Orono Village, Sherburne County, Minnesota (later absorbed by), Elk River, Minnesota and the booming city of St. Anthony (later absorbed by Minneapolis, Minnesota). He was also a renowned diplomat and translator, earning him the nickname "The Walking Peace Pipe." He played a part in forging many treaties with Native American tribes. According to his obituary he spoke French, English, Dakota, Ojibwe, Cree, Mandan, and Winnebago. Pierre was born in a hunting camp on the buffalo trail near Grand Forks. His father Charles Bottineau was a French-Canadian Protestant, and his mother Marguerite Macheyquayzaince Ahdicksongab "(Clear Sky Woman)" was half Dakota and half Ojibwe of the Lake of the Woods band, she was a sister of Pembina Ojibwe Chief Misko-Makwa or Red Bear. Although technically born in United States territory, control of the Upper Mississippi Valley fell to the British during the War of 1812. Even after the 1815 Treaty of Ghent returned the land to the United States, British and Canadian traders and the Native American tribes held all real control in the area. The U.S. government used Pierre and others like him to settle the land and help establish American sovereignty. Most mixed race, or Métis, lived as outcasts to both White and Native societies, but Pierre would soon use his many talents to become accepted as an American hero. His many invaluable services earned him celebrity status in his time. Upon his retirement, the United States Congress granted him a pension of $50 a month. He died in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota at the age of 78. Bottineau County, North Dakota, and its county seat Bottineau, North Dakota are named in his honor as well as the Pierre Bottineau branch library and Bottineau Park in Minneapolis and Bottineau Blvd in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

I had two great great great uncles (his sons) who served in the Civil War. One named Peter Bottineau was born in 1840 in the USA. He died on 14 Mar 1865 (aged 24–25) .

This is the only identification I have for him :



His Mother, my great (x5) Grandmother was Marguerite SON GABO KI CHE TA, of the AH dik do daun (Raindeer) Clan ofthe Red Lake Chippewas ( Sister of Chief Red Bear).(Corrected)

So, yes, migration did happen, but it was before lil' ole me was born.

Lynn