04-12-2006, 02:55 PM
On most of my point, I think I've said all that needs to be said. I'm not questioning your sovereignty, and I'm not engaging in some perverse identity crisis. Our fellow lurkers may draw their own conclusions.
However, I would challenge you to spend a week in Peru and still tell me the Incas are gone. Quechua and Aymaru speakers are the largest slice of the population pie, almost the majority of the population. The indigenous cultures we call the Incas are still very much alive, although rather irritated about 500 years of colonial domination. Evo Morales in Bolivia shows they aren't gone, just suppressed.
On Texas, I take it you mean T.R. Fehrenbach's "Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans"? I'll give it a look.
-Jester
However, I would challenge you to spend a week in Peru and still tell me the Incas are gone. Quechua and Aymaru speakers are the largest slice of the population pie, almost the majority of the population. The indigenous cultures we call the Incas are still very much alive, although rather irritated about 500 years of colonial domination. Evo Morales in Bolivia shows they aren't gone, just suppressed.
On Texas, I take it you mean T.R. Fehrenbach's "Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans"? I'll give it a look.
-Jester