Our contemporaries love the mythical American Indian, part peaceful Christian saint and part Sierra Club environmentalist.
They would refuse to believe firsthand accounts of Indian behavior, beginning with the 1622 Jamestown Massacre and King Philips War and the atrocities that were commonplace. The squaws often outdid the men for cruelty inflicted on captives.
These were tough people. Sometimes noble, sometimes extremely cruel. Relishing in torturing their enemies. Colonists along the border could be just as rough, but it’s unfair to focus on them alone.
Yep.
And they are political pawns now.
They gave us Obamacare. They held their polls open until they saw how many more votes they needed to elect Jon Tester to the Senate from MT.
Tester’s victory gave Obama the votes he needed for Obamacare.
Now, they can’t even run their own town.
Look up the news on Browning, MT. They won’t pay taxes for their own town.