im sorry, but there is never a good reason to smash babies skulls in front of their mothers before raping and torturing them, as well as dissecting settlers while alive and other atrocities documented as having been committed by the Sioux, Comanche and other tribes. One well known tribe (whos name escapes me now) were outright cannibals, treating the hands and feet of their captured as delicacies. Is there ever a good reason for that? Sorry, but No moral equivalency here. Whatever abuse was eventually bestowed upon the tribes was mainly in retribution for the countless atrocities that were committed upon innocent people.
I’m sorry, but I never said there was a good reason for the atrocities committed against settlers. Can you see that there was no good reason to commit all sorts of atrocities against the Dakotas and Winnebago many of whom were non combatants? The first ones to get the whole thing started were the federal government.