[dirtboy]

You haven't read your history on the Indians yet, or have the wrong books.

The fight over history is usually about what gets put into the books.

I'm sorry, but the history of Indian affairs in this country is a largely shameful one. William Penn showed that it was possible to live peacefully side-by-side if affairs were conducted fairly.

[Sherman Logan]

the history of Indian affairs in this country is a largely shameful one.

Quite true. But it's shameful because we violated our own laws and principles. What happened here is what has always happened whenever a primitive people comes into contact with a more advanced one.

William Penn showed that it was possible to live peacefully side-by-side if affairs were conducted fairly.

True, in the short term. In the long run, the exploding white settler population would eventually want the land of the Indians, who were declining in number. The only way to prevent them from taking it would be by means of an absolute monarchy which would protect the Indians.

Does anyone think there was some scenario by which white settlement could have been permanently stopped at the Appalachians or Mississippi? If the US had done so, it still wouldn't have saved the Indians, as the unprotected land would have been settled by some other white nation.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘William Penn showed that it was possible to live peacefully side-by-side if affairs were conducted fairly.’

The Delaware were not the Comanche.