Was "Dick" just something people got called, irrespective of their actual given name, till the Richards stole it for good? "Noriyuki Morita? You'll go by the traditional 'Pat' of course?"
Yeah but I am not happy they chose the first reference of the name, where it is interrupted by his legal first name. Two paragraphs down it says "Dick Butt fell in love" and THAT is the line they should have emphasized.
I mean his brother seems to have only sought out to marry the women from one family and have them both shoot out children their entire child-bearing years...
The Mormons were incredibly racist and still are. However they were also hated by the US government. I hate to side with the Mormons but they actually had a vaguely similar experience to the natives. The natives had it way worse obviously but the US government were the main players in killing the natives
Mormons did their own kinds of ethnic cleansing. Not just from the end of a gun, but also through proselytizing and adopting (stealing) native children to raise white and LDS. Mormons had/have a huge drive to convert native americans as a way to reinforce their own doctrine as being 'True' since the Book of Mormon supposedly tells 'their' story of settling america after fleeing from isreal.
I used to believe in the whole prevalance of "settlers vs indians" but when you look any actual event up it's usually building tension, maybe even a few dead on either side, then the US army comes in and massacres the natives, or drives them away.
It documented that the early Mormon settlers wiped out whole villages of indigenous people. For two basic reasons, they wanted, (deserved) the land in the name of their savior, and the native people were less than human. Locally, they killed the whole ( unarmed ) Koosharem tribe one night. Natives of north America were not a warring people until white man came and started killing them. Fighting back became necessary for survival.
ThatAintRightItsAllLeft
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squishybarnyard
“Dick Butt fell in love”
SometimesMage
Dammit. Now I gotta see if I'm related.
Futchm
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JackDawesLovesmybigwhat
That family is still in the area. My dad went to school with some Butts.
Jaqdakloun
jridley
Wait until you hear about his cousin Seymour.
themavericktoyourgoose
Look up the founder and owners of HEB…..
ShearingBlizzard
Dick Butt fell in love ❤️
BrickSprickly
Had a guy in my army unit woth the last name of Buttdls. Didn't go over well for him. He legally changed his name.
Apeofdeath
Butt
jaggcomputing5
"Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one of the Butt sisters"
A song about a caveman from the early 70's.
dirtyFrenchman
Nice.
eadanke
Willard > Willy > Dick: Is that right?
emu314159127001
Was "Dick" just something people got called, irrespective of their actual given name, till the Richards stole it for good? "Noriyuki Morita? You'll go by the traditional 'Pat' of course?"
Mindyourowndamnbusiness
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69Voltage
I’m happy there was a dickbutt
ArcaneM37
Yeah but I am not happy they chose the first reference of the name, where it is interrupted by his legal first name. Two paragraphs down it says "Dick Butt fell in love" and THAT is the line they should have emphasized.
Sebastopol140
Fahrenheit536
Dick Butt cometh, and that right soon.
miked854
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zeacorzeppelin10
BagOfPrayers
Sherrif Dick Butt
CJAW
Sheriff Dick Butt was legendary for his bravery, wisdom, and fairness
BananaForScaIe
But... where's Seymour?
HandoB4Javert
ME2BNS12
His real name was Willy Butt though
StabbyMcMurder
Does that mean we're Mormon now?
shameofslate
I mean, it’s funny because dick butt. But if you read the whole thing, that guy had quite a life!
AtmaDarkwolf
I mean his brother seems to have only sought out to marry the women from one family and have them both shoot out children their entire child-bearing years...
StonesTwice
And they probably killed all the indigenous people they met along the way
MarkWatneysVicodinPotato
"This is a map of atrocities committed by the settlers of Pawnee upon the Wamapoke Indians... The atrocities are in blue."
MattoJanai
The Mormons were incredibly racist and still are. However they were also hated by the US government. I hate to side with the Mormons but they actually had a vaguely similar experience to the natives. The natives had it way worse obviously but the US government were the main players in killing the natives
HikariShade
Mormons did their own kinds of ethnic cleansing. Not just from the end of a gun, but also through proselytizing and adopting (stealing) native children to raise white and LDS. Mormons had/have a huge drive to convert native americans as a way to reinforce their own doctrine as being 'True' since the Book of Mormon supposedly tells 'their' story of settling america after fleeing from isreal.
Source: Ex-Mo and Native
PrincessWasabi
The real adventure was the people we killed along the way /s
Sebastopol140
Dick move.
q2grapple
Butt……
SlydFox
....head
astrangehop
I used to believe in the whole prevalance of "settlers vs indians" but when you look any actual event up it's usually building tension, maybe even a few dead on either side, then the US army comes in and massacres the natives, or drives them away.
Erisianistic
Probably on land that was promised to the Natives multiple times too
StonesTwice
It documented that the early Mormon settlers wiped out whole villages of indigenous people. For two basic reasons, they wanted, (deserved) the land in the name of their savior, and the native people were less than human.
Locally, they killed the whole ( unarmed ) Koosharem tribe one night.
Natives of north America were not a warring people until white man came and started killing them. Fighting back became necessary for survival.
SergeyPrkl
there is tv stuff of it, where the mormons are the badguys. American Primeval.
StonesTwice
watched it.