That, unfortunately, was a two way street in the Indian wars.
These Indians were trecherous people, with no guiding principles to reign in their human instincts.
I assume you got this from your antiquarian books. Did those same books tell you about the soldiers who "routinely slaughtering women and children"? Probably not. A more accurate history requires a little distance from the events. Ask George Bush.
I assume you got this from your antiquarian books. Did those same books tell you about the soldiers who “routinely slaughtering women and children”?
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I think the Time Life series had a photograph of a cavalry trooper’s tobacco pouch made from an Indian woman’s tit. I loved the old matinee movies too, but they were kid’s entertainment, not history.
It wasn't routine.
That's why the PC history books make such a big deal out of Sand Creek and a few other occasion where it actually took place.
Did women and children get killed? Absolutely, but in most cases as a result of collateral damage. At Sand Creek, quite a number of Chivington's officers objected strongly to his murderous orders to take no prisoners. The massacre was a huge scandal at the time, precisely because it wasn't "routine."
For an alternative where "kill them all" was the norm, may I refer you to the history of Argentine, which was fighting its last Indian wars at the same time we were.
Argentina has no Indian problem because it has no Indians. They killed them all.
OTOH, it was indeed routine for American Indians to kill white (and enemy Indian) women and children, often by torturing them to death.
The problem with your aboriginie, pagan friends is they learned that slaughtering white women and children came with a heavy price. It got their own people killed, often in the same way. It's not a pretty site to come home to see your wife stabbed, raped and burned to death, and your daughters taken as sex slaves. But you cannot see that it was the Indians who caused their own troubles, you've been brainwashed.
And it does figure that you'd try to assail American written antiquarian books that were written as the facts actually unfolded, with no time and no desire for revision. White villages were attacked and burned to the ground after the men left, and that didn't set well with the Cavalry, who went to settle the score. It was the European settlers who wanted to live in peace, by and large, but the Indians were having none of it. You see, I believe my American forefathers and what they wrote, because they were men and women of great integrity. Lying was not a family value as it is today, in YOUR culture. Christians knew that lies were subject to God's punishment. It was Christianity, in fact, that contained men's bloody instincts and allowed the savage, barbaric Indians to live peacefully on sprawling reservations. Were the white settlers just like the Indians there wouldn't have been a single Indian left standing. And if your Cheif Sitting Bullshit had the chance he'd have wiped out whites to the last man, woman and child. Perhaps thats what you'd have preferred, it would seem.