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To: rollo tomasi

actually north american indians were a mixed bag. There were vicious tribes, so-so tribes, and peaceful tribes. Of course the PC left doesnt' do nuance, so they have to make them all sit around singing Kumbaya.


13 posted on 12/08/2006 5:31:32 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12
You are right not all where blood thirsty savages. In my research the ability of the land to support a living determine the blood thirstiness. Natives that live in fertile lands tended to be more hospitable to trespassers.

In general, more native Americans where hostile to people not of there tribe or tribal association then neutral or friendly. The great European invasion on balance did more to bring humanity to North America through trade, large scale agriculture and peaceful monotheism than the existing eye for an eye justice, slash and burn agriculture or wandering existence could have ever of accomplished.

28 posted on 12/08/2006 5:57:50 AM PST by 2001convSVT ("People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence")
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To: dogbyte12

Indeed. When the Brits took over New Amsterdam from the Dutch, they wanted to get rid of the pesky (but peaceful) Canarsie Indians that lived within Brooklyn, Queens and the rest of Long Island. They brought down the Mohawk from the upper Hudson Valley and they wiped the Canarsies out.


121 posted on 12/10/2006 8:53:05 AM PST by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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