I once read the story of a French fur trapper who operated in the Great Lakes area around the time of the American Revolution.
Well, one day he visited the land of a tribe he had done business with the year before. The tribe was nowhere to be found. Puzzled by that, the trapper asked a neighboring tribe what happened to the first tribe.
“We killed them all,” was the response.
So evidently Native Americans had a bit of the conquering streak in them too. And we’re not even talking about the Aztecs or Incans.
WHAT? You mean they didn’t sit around all day making baskets, rugs and clay pots? What the.......................
And lets talk about all the different Tribes in Africa that to this day are still warring with each other.
That true.
The Chippewa tribe chased out every other tribe in that region. Some were Sioux.
Evidence points to the upper James River Valley near the present location of Lynchburg, Virginia. They were likely pushed there by the more aggressive Powhattan related tribes.
Anyway, about 1430 a.d. or so, the Little Ice Age was evident in the northern region and the Huron (among others) moved down from Canada to press the Siouxian tribes to move on. Not being as aggressive, they did so.
The first group or Mandan band, over the course of the next century or so, made the long trek to the Knife River Valley south of present day Mandan, North Dakota. They picked this spot not only because of the fertile soil which reminded them of their Ohio River Valley homeland but because it was isolated enough that they figured they'd be left alone for at least a century or two, which they were.
The other Sioux tribes didn't want to go this far and stayed in present day Minnesota where they were eventually pushed further west by the Chippewa (from Canada) and the white man. The Chippewa actually did more killing and displacement of the Sioux, but you'd never know that by reading revisionist history.
In fact, the revisionists would like you to think they came from the lower Mississippi River Valley (a partial truth, at best, since the Ohio empties there) and moved north. However, the Mandan have a long tradition of facing their dead toward the Ohio River Valley, which makes it harder to blame whitey for the displacement.
They were a warrior culture. To pretend otherwise is dishonest.
Wasn’t it the Ute’s who used to capture and sell the Navajo to Mexicans as slaves? All this first nation saint hood is garbage, they were human beings just like every other race. I can say that because I am part Cherokee down the family tree.