[RedMonqey]

the liberals would have us all believe that the “native” Americans were all living in peace and harmony at one with nature...

Long before I found FR, I got into an argument with a bunch of liberals who claimed just that.

I asked them "What were the stone axes, war shields for? Don't need either of them for hunting and leather shields won't stop lead bullets?".

At that point they stopped "contributing" to the discussion...

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

exactly.

[driftless2]

While both sides could be guilty of atrocities, the idea that Indian tribes didn't do their own share of slaughtering people is a myth propagated by the academic and entertainment industries. Case in point, in western Wisconsin close to where I live there is a memorial to the Sac Indians who were starving in the 1830s and left their reservation seeking food. A federal army chased and eventually caught up with the Indians about thirty miles south of La Crosse, Wisc. near the Bad Axe River. Many Indians were killed by federal troops. Some Sac Indians tried to escape by re-crossing the Mississippi River.

The army had some help in their killing. It was the Sioux Indians. They were bitter enemies of the Sac, and were only too happy to help the army in killing the Sac Indians. So whenever I read about and feel guilty about the treaties broken by the government in dealing with Indian tribes like the Sioux, I remember there were no tears shed when the Sioux killed their enemies and took their lands.