[2banana]

I know it is hard to believe, but before Indians were running casinos and selling cigarettes tax-free in North America, they were a stone-age people. They had not learned to domesticate animals, they had no written language, they used only stone tools and they had not even yet invented the wheel. They had never seen a horse, a metal knife or a plow before Columbus. They also commonly practiced slavery, genocide and cannibalism against other tribes.

No matter how many times liberals watch "Dances with Wolves" and "Pocahontas," it will not change these facts.

[PeterPrinciple]

Liberals think honor is a zero sum game.......if we give honor to someone, it takes away from from someone else.

I think when you give rightful honor to someone it grows and multiplies.

[Spok]

The Indians struggled to survive against harsh, adverse conditions. When the whites arrived, they also struggled to survive against harsh, adverse conditions. When the two cultures found themselves to be competing, both cultures acted like people normally do when struggling to survive against harsh, adverse conditions. It's easy to judge behavior from a century away in the comfort of an air conditioned high-rise. We don't starve, bury 2 out of 5 five of our children or die before we reach 45. This was the world BOTH whites and Indians lived in. And when cultures under such conditions clashed, the side more technilogically advanced, which also was larger in number, naturally prevailed. This is a history which is not unique to North America, as practically every people on earth have been both victor and vanquished. It's the histroy of our specie and continues to be a reality.
As an Anglo-Saxon, I'm still ticked about the Norman Conquest (justy kidding).

[LittleJoe]

No matter how many times liberals watch "Dances with Wolves" and "Pocahontas," it will not change these facts

Are you saying Indians are liberals?