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.
I think you are confusing cause and effect. Often times it was the soldiers and settlers who started the cycle of violence.
Sprawling reservations? You really do have blinders on, don't you? Look at what is left of the Souix reservations, versus what had been promised over the years through treaties, and get back to us.
You are quiet gifted in area of wild speculation when it comes to my friends and 'culture'. I did not 'assail' antiquarian books, I was just pointing out that they shouldn't be relied upon as a soul source of historical perspective.
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.... Christians knew that lies were subject to God's punishment.
You have a very simplistic view of that history coupled with an over abundance of self righteousness.
It was Christianity, in fact, that contained men's bloody instincts and allowed the savage, barbaric Indians to live peacefully on sprawling reservations.
You really need to do some serious study in this area if you think the reservation life was (and is today) an effective expression of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Here's a little example of YOUR culture. Are these the good Christian men to whom you allude?
On November 29, 1864, Colorado Volunteers attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho village camped on Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. Under orders to take no prisoners, the militia killed and mutilated about 200 of the Indians, two-thirds of whom were women and children,[26] taking scalps and other grisly trophies of battle.[27] The Indians at Sand Creek had been assured by the U.S. Government that they would be safe in the territory they were occupying, but anti-Indian sentiments by white settlers were running high.
jiminycricket000.. Sir, I like the cut of your jib!