Highland clearances

**Fedgunner** · 27th July 07, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by ScotlandonTV

Hi all

There's an stv news piece about the statue unveiling on www.scotlandontv.tv

Here's a link: http://www.scotlandontv.tv/?channel=...id=1380_SMG911

Enjoy!

The ScotlandonTV Team

Thank you for that video!

**David Dalglish** · 27th July 07, 10:08 PM

Good video.

**cessna152towser** · 28th July 07, 03:59 AM

Very interesting. I'm wondering how an ancestor with a highland clan surname McKenzie came to be living in Paisley in the Scottish central lowlands in the 1780's - maybe the family fled from the highlands at the time of the clearances.

**Riverkilt** · 28th July 07, 08:30 AM

I often talk about the Clearances to the Navajos I work with. The Navajo had the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico. Eventually, they were released and allowed to walk home.

Just a few years earlier my ancestors were cleared and shipped to Nova Scotia, never to return, save in War 2 to help defend the old country.

Certainly an event of strong and mixed emotions.

Hopefully, someone will be allowed to make smaller replicas of the statue for purchase and display in homes and offices.

Ron

**Archangel** · 28th July 07, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

I often talk about the Clearances to the Navajos I work with. The Navajo had the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico. Eventually, they were released and allowed to walk home.

Just a few years earlier my ancestors were cleared and shipped to Nova Scotia, never to return, save in War 2 to help defend the old country.

Certainly an event of strong and mixed emotions.

Hopefully, someone will be allowed to make smaller replicas of the statue for purchase and display in homes and offices.

Ron

Hey, Ron, something else to put in the bank. The Scots share so many of the troubles that the natives have had, for the same reasons. Briefly the policies used were developed on Scots, then the Irish, and finally Blacks and Natives. When it became apparent that white Scots and Irish could hide among whites. The policies became racist with the difference structured to Natives losing land and the Black's gaining land. Gets complicated there but it's summed up in Greene's Pursuit of Happiness.

What Scots faced around the 1750s is what Natives faced around the 1850s.

Still working to get you back to kilted at work.

**ChattanCat** · 28th July 07, 10:54 AM

I am very touched by the statue. It is nice to see the video, but I only saw one kilt. I expected to see all the men in kilts. Is being kilted in Scotland not accepted over pants?