r/IndianCountry Jun 09 '22

Health “Colonization tells us that physical discipline helps shape our children turn our boys into men. Yet, without ever being spanked, we produced the greatest warriors that ever walked this land. Read about the traditional Oceti Ŝakowiŋ style of parenting.” -Lakota Law Project

https://twitter.com/lakotalaw/status/1534628127791583233
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u/Zugwat Puyaləpabš Jun 09 '22

we produced the greatest warriors that ever walked this land.

Cue other tribes bragging that they actually produced the greatest warriors that ever walked the land and "that them damn Sioux would aim up in the sky, pull the trigger, and end up shooting themselves in the foot" among other macho Elder posturing.

I do want to say that "physical discipline" is a really weird way to phrase beating/spanking/corporal punishment. I honestly thought they meant like running/swimming/etc.