"I was told that if you killed any Indians/Native Americans that resided on the land that you could have it but that it was not true in all cases. Is this true? V. Jenkins Answer: No. It just sounds politically correct. The land lottery was an act of Congress. Stop and think about it. "I propose a bill that would give land to people who kill any native Americans on it." I don't think so. For Revolutionery war service against the British in the fight for independence . . . I think so. We don't have to rely on "someone who says" or "I was told." The laws proposed and passed in the United States are a matter of public record. Try the Library of Congress Web site, and search for Land Lottery. Everyone has been dumped on: Vikings, Romans, and others invaded England, changed the customs and religeon, took the land, property, and women. Today Japan has posession of Olympic medals won by Koreans after the Japanese invaded and occupied Korea. They say that since they occupied Korea at the time, the medals belong to the Japanese. Christians lost to the Muslims the place where they believe Christ was born and crucified. The Jews had lost their country until 1945 when it was more or less re-created out of other countries in North Africa. My family farm, and many others, were taken by the government in 1939 to build Ft. Stewart Army Post. My grandmother, whose husband had just died, had to move off, got nothing for the crops in the field, and waited eleven months for the government to send the check. Another grandfather's stepmother cut him out of the will. My father died when I was seven. So what.\ I don't know of anyone, or any ancestry, who hasn't been dumped on. A person can use it as an excuse or get on with life. You can bet your tuschnakoyatah I don't have any complexes about anything that happened 100 or more years before I was born. A person can drag it through their life if they want to. As for me, I'm free at last, free at last -- thank God almighty I'm free at last. I didn't rip off a continent from the natives, and I didn't enslave a race of people either. You see, my wife and I don't vote the same, and my kids don't always listen. If I were influential enough to do all the stuff I'm supposed to be ashamed of, I would have just had a lot more sex and money instead. Brigham Knight -----Original Message----- From: tuschnakoyatah [mailto:tuschnakoyatah@email.msn.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 8:37 PM To: GABURKE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Burke Co. Land Lotteries 1803 What exactly was the land lottery? I was told that if you killed any Indians/Native Americans that resided on the land that you could have it but that it was not true in all cases. Is this true? V. Jenkins ==== GABURKE Mailing List ==== NO SPAMMING