Posted on 07/06/2013 3:54:21 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Indians were killing Indians like it was their full time job for centuries before white Europeans set foot on the continent. The most civilized among the Western Indians, the Anasazi, were cannibals. French priests named them “savages” for a reason. Its because they were. They decimated species of animals all over the continent for a milenium leaving tens of thousands of whole buffalo rotting where they were killed after eating a leg. The three legged carcasses are all over the west. Over 20,000 bison were killed by running whole herds off a single cliff near Beulah Wy. The cover up of their disgraceful history is what created the biggest myth of the American West.
Not to manage how much of the plains were set on fire every year to hunt game.
“... an eye opener a debunk all of the lies that we heard from our history teachers and media.”
Let’s get our debunkings in better order.
Dee Brown is pretty well known across the high plains, as a propagandist and Left-inclined revisionist, all too enamored of taking on the Indian-as-victim stance - especially if there is money in it. I’d point out he’s a novelist more than a historian, but noting how the latter trade has failed to cover itself in glory in recent years, the distinction might mean little here.
S.L.A. Marshall may be a more distressing case. A journalist and Army officer wannabe, he was inclined to puff pieces. He was widely known to have embellished his WWI service; when WWII came along he fast-talked his way into an special-purpose billet and conned commanders into believing hehad invented a new way to quantify history, that he could collect data from after-action interviews on a scale and with a speed never before seen.
He was taken extremely seriously; no slouch as a writer, his work “Men Against Fire” remains a classic. Small arms firepower doctrine was completely revamped after the war, in large measure on the strength of Marshall’s body of work. He prospered inside the institutional infrastructure of the US Army until the end of his days
Trouble is, there was no credible data and his “conclusions” had no support.
Veterans he claimed to have interviewed could never remember even meeting him. Large numbers of them. And none of the support personnel he would have had to have interacted with - to corral and debrief dozens and hundreds of war-worn dogfaces, in more than one theater - could summon the faintest recollection of the interviewing process, nor even his presence: activities that would have been a giant pain in the neck and a disruption to the huge task of helping troops recover from the fight. Many have since maintained that even had Marshall been there and been working as he said he had, he hadn’t a fraction of the time to do all he claimed he did.
Weak sources to base such an article on.
So, basically, politicians and bureaucrats have been messing things up for 200 years.
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