Wyatt earp
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Ignorance is showing, native lands are only governed by the tribe or Congress.
They don't follow local or state laws .
Newsflash the Reservations aren't real Nations.
News flash yes they are
Nope, but how does that change that many Native American Holy sites aren't even on Reservations?
Read a history book
Then this must the have been the "Nation" predecessor of Palestine.
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem - Wikipedia
Mark Twain's book on the Holy Land is still controversial - some would say Trumpian
Mark Twain vist to the holy Land 150 plus years ago
Biblical Shunem is today Sulam, a Muslim Arab village near Afula in northern Israel. Mark Twain, the greatest of American writers,wrote 150 years ago about Shunem: “We found here a grove of lemon trees – cool, shady, hung with fruit. One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare, but to me this grove seemed very beautiful. It was beautiful. I do not overestimate it. I must always remember Shunem gratefully, as a place which gave to us this leafy shelter after our long, hot ride. We lunched, rested, chatted, smoked our pipes an hour, and then mounted and moved on.”
This description is very unusual in Twain’s book “The Innocents Abroad, or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress,” the last part of which describes his travels in the Holy Land.
You have to rub your eyes to believe from his description of Shunem – Twain goes out of his way to praise a beautiful place. He certainly did not experience many such pleasures during his visit to Ottoman Palestine. Most of the book about his trip is taken up by complaints, allegations and horrible insults about the land, landscapes, cities, villages and residents living there. Because of that, in order to mark the 150th anniversary of Twain’s famous visit, I searched for a place he liked, so I went to visit Sulam-Shunem.
Twain described Shunem as a place with camel dung stuck to the walls of the huts, but he loved the nearby shady grove of lemon trees. Other places, such as Migdal, Tiberias or the Jordan River, earned far less admiring descriptions. Camel dung on the walls is not so bad according to Twain’s criteria for the Holy Land