Is The California Drought the Curse of the Native Americans Luis and Salvador? Or the Belgian, Hardcoop?
California is in the midst of a great drought, caused by either Climate Change, or the Curse of the Native Americans Luis and Salvador, or the Curse of the Belgian, Hardcoop.
The worst thing ever done to the Native Americans were the fates of Luis and Salvador.
It is their fates which may be cursing California today.
The Donner Party came west in 1846, heading to California through the Sierra Nevada. They were late in coming west, so they were in a race against the snowstorms. They lost.
They were trapped in the Sierra Nevada.
"Of the original 87 pioneers, 39 died and 48 survived. Five died before reaching the Sierra Nevada, 14 at the lake camp, eight at Alder Creek, and 12 while trying to escape the mountains. Two California Indians who helped bring supplies from Sutter's Fort were trapped along with the emigrants and also died, bringing the total to 41 dead."
Those two California Indians were Luis and Salvador.
When the Donner Party got trapped in the Sierra Nevada, they sent people ahead to Sutter's Fort(where Gold was discovered in 1848, starting the Gold Rush of 1849).
Colonel Sutter sent two Christian Indians, Luis and Salvador, with food and supplies to help the late arriving and very incompetent settlers.
Luis and Salvador delivered the food and got trapped, with the Donner Party, in a severe snowstorm.
The snowstorms did not subside, and the supplies ran out.
Some of the settlers had died, and so the Donner Party, made like that Uruguayan rugby team in the film ALIVE, which, while trapped in the Andes, ate their dead teammates. The Donner Party started eating the dead settlers. The Donner Party became cannibals.
All the Christian settlers became cannibals, except the two Christian Indians.
"The Indian guides, Lewis and Salvador, would not eat this revolting food. They built a fire away from the company, and with true Indian stoicism endured the agonies of starvation without so much as beholding the occurrences at the other camp-fire."
So the only two Christians at the campsite full of Christians, not prepared to be a cannibal,were the two Native American converts, Luis and Salvadore.
"Two California Indians who helped bring supplies from Sutter's Fort were trapped along with the emigrants and also died..." That line in Wikipedia is disingenuous.
For you see, the two California Indians, Luis and Salvador did not also died......when the Donner Party had finished picking over the bones of their dead companions,after the last of the human stew, they murdered and ATE the two Christian non cannibals, Luis and Salvador.
They ate them, after they murdered them.
"two Indians, Luis and Salvador, were killed for food"
When this Blogger thinks about all the problems besetting California, he thinks about Luis and Salvador sitting in heaven, munching on a vegetarian diet, drinking fresh water, cursing us.
None of Governor Jerry Brown's grand edicts slapping mandatory water rationing on Californians will save California from the Revenge of Luis and Salvador, eaten for food, the commodity drought stricken California may soon be running out of.
Or then again, California may be suffering because of the curse of the Belgian Hardcoop.
" An old man named Hardcoop .... He was a cutler by trade, and had a son and daughter in the city of Antwerp, in Belgium. It is said he owned a farm near Cincinnati, Ohio, and intended, after visiting California to dispose of this farm, and with the proceeds return to Antwerp, for the purpose of spending his declining years with his children. He was a man of nearly three-score years, and the hardships of the journey had weakened his trembling limbs and broken down his health. Sick, feeble, helpless as he was, this old man was compelled to walk withthe others. At last, when his strength gave way, he was forced to lie down by the roadside to perish of cold and hunger. Who can picture the agony, the horror, the dreary desolation of such a death? The poor old man walked until his feet actually burst! - walked until he sank utterly exhausted by the roadside! It was a terrible death! To see the train disappear in the distance; to know he was abandoned to die of exposure and starvation; to think that the wolves would devour his flesh and gnaw his bones; to lie down on the great desert, hungry, famished, and completely prostrated by fatigue - to meet death thus is too dreadful to contemplate."
They left him, and none came back to reclaim him or bury him. Now they were good people, and not thieves, so they left all his belongings and possessions by the side of the trail with him. They had scruples about that; they were not thieves, they were Californians to be, dooming the state to multiple curses.
SIDEBAR
What effect does cannibalism have on your life span?
Naomi Pike, 3, was rescued by the First Relief. She married John L. Schenck, and lived til 1934, the second-to-last survivor of the Donner Party.
Isabella died in 1935, the last survivor of the Donner Party
The worst thing ever done to the Native Americans were the fates of Luis and Salvador.
It is their fates which may be cursing California today.
The Donner Party came west in 1846, heading to California through the Sierra Nevada. They were late in coming west, so they were in a race against the snowstorms. They lost.
They were trapped in the Sierra Nevada.
"Of the original 87 pioneers, 39 died and 48 survived. Five died before reaching the Sierra Nevada, 14 at the lake camp, eight at Alder Creek, and 12 while trying to escape the mountains. Two California Indians who helped bring supplies from Sutter's Fort were trapped along with the emigrants and also died, bringing the total to 41 dead."
Those two California Indians were Luis and Salvador.
When the Donner Party got trapped in the Sierra Nevada, they sent people ahead to Sutter's Fort(where Gold was discovered in 1848, starting the Gold Rush of 1849).
Colonel Sutter sent two Christian Indians, Luis and Salvador, with food and supplies to help the late arriving and very incompetent settlers.
Luis and Salvador delivered the food and got trapped, with the Donner Party, in a severe snowstorm.
The snowstorms did not subside, and the supplies ran out.
Some of the settlers had died, and so the Donner Party, made like that Uruguayan rugby team in the film ALIVE, which, while trapped in the Andes, ate their dead teammates. The Donner Party started eating the dead settlers. The Donner Party became cannibals.
All the Christian settlers became cannibals, except the two Christian Indians.
"The Indian guides, Lewis and Salvador, would not eat this revolting food. They built a fire away from the company, and with true Indian stoicism endured the agonies of starvation without so much as beholding the occurrences at the other camp-fire."
So the only two Christians at the campsite full of Christians, not prepared to be a cannibal,were the two Native American converts, Luis and Salvadore.
"Two California Indians who helped bring supplies from Sutter's Fort were trapped along with the emigrants and also died..." That line in Wikipedia is disingenuous.
For you see, the two California Indians, Luis and Salvador did not also died......when the Donner Party had finished picking over the bones of their dead companions,after the last of the human stew, they murdered and ATE the two Christian non cannibals, Luis and Salvador.
They ate them, after they murdered them.
"two Indians, Luis and Salvador, were killed for food"
When this Blogger thinks about all the problems besetting California, he thinks about Luis and Salvador sitting in heaven, munching on a vegetarian diet, drinking fresh water, cursing us.
None of Governor Jerry Brown's grand edicts slapping mandatory water rationing on Californians will save California from the Revenge of Luis and Salvador, eaten for food, the commodity drought stricken California may soon be running out of.
Or then again, California may be suffering because of the curse of the Belgian Hardcoop.
" An old man named Hardcoop .... He was a cutler by trade, and had a son and daughter in the city of Antwerp, in Belgium. It is said he owned a farm near Cincinnati, Ohio, and intended, after visiting California to dispose of this farm, and with the proceeds return to Antwerp, for the purpose of spending his declining years with his children. He was a man of nearly three-score years, and the hardships of the journey had weakened his trembling limbs and broken down his health. Sick, feeble, helpless as he was, this old man was compelled to walk withthe others. At last, when his strength gave way, he was forced to lie down by the roadside to perish of cold and hunger. Who can picture the agony, the horror, the dreary desolation of such a death? The poor old man walked until his feet actually burst! - walked until he sank utterly exhausted by the roadside! It was a terrible death! To see the train disappear in the distance; to know he was abandoned to die of exposure and starvation; to think that the wolves would devour his flesh and gnaw his bones; to lie down on the great desert, hungry, famished, and completely prostrated by fatigue - to meet death thus is too dreadful to contemplate."
They left him, and none came back to reclaim him or bury him. Now they were good people, and not thieves, so they left all his belongings and possessions by the side of the trail with him. They had scruples about that; they were not thieves, they were Californians to be, dooming the state to multiple curses.
SIDEBAR
What effect does cannibalism have on your life span?
Naomi Pike, 3, was rescued by the First Relief. She married John L. Schenck, and lived til 1934, the second-to-last survivor of the Donner Party.
Isabella died in 1935, the last survivor of the Donner Party
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