• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The esteem which the islanders nevertheless held for Cook caused them to retain his body. Following their practice of the time, they prepared his body with funerary rituals usually reserved for the chiefs and highest elders of the society. The body was disemboweled and baked to facilitate removal of the flesh, and the bones were carefully cleaned for preservation as religious icons in a fashion somewhat reminiscent of the treatment of European saints in the Middle Ages. Some of Cook’s remains, thus preserved, were eventually returned to his crew for a formal burial at sea. (on Wikipeda )

      It’s a complex story.

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        It is.

        Cook was an explorer and worthy of respect. It’s not like it’s a casual jaunt to the other side of the world, it was an arduous task and a remarkable feat.

        Unfortunately Cook’s arrival heralded that age’s colonialism, itself a mixed blessing.

        It’s only now, with the wealth of the world’s history at our fingertips and an objective view of the past up to the present that lets us judge the effects of past events.

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        Yesterday I saw five posts in a row that were either about wanting to commit murder in the future or celebrating past murders. Which is fine but gets cringe in excess especially from people who will never do anything. Then there was this post that looked like it was about something else but then he tied it back into murder again with comedic timing.

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          Well at least it had comedic timing lol yeah that’s annoying seeing stuff like that over and over again.

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    That dude looks exactly like the kind of person that would make a tweet like this.

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    United States Public Law 103-150 of 1993 (known as the Apology Resolution), acknowledged that “the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States” and also “that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi or through a plebiscite or referendum.” Hawaiian Kingdom