Louis L'Amour said in interview that, if the North American tribes had had a Genghis Khan to weld them into a single nation, "we would not have succeeded." The point he kinda missed there is, the tribes weren't all one nation or even one language, and shared a history of thousands of years of war against one another. The talking points are wrong -- the tribes weren't "victims", they made war, and they lost. And if the "whites" had actually conducted genocide, there'd be no one around to complain about it.
Forty five years ago I read COMANCHES: THE DESTRUCTION OF A PEOPLE. I figured it would be a usual “Low the Poor Indian” type of book, but it was a brutal assessment of them. Took me by surprise!
Any tribe that would burn the face off a captive white girl before trading her back to the whites needs to be crushed.
” Matilda Lockhart, a sixteen-year-old White girl. Matilda, who had been captured with her sister in 1838, claimed that her captors had physically and sexually abused her.
Burn scars, coupled with the mutilation of her nose, supported her stories. She also said that fifteen other captives remained in Comanche hands and that the tribe’s leaders intended to ransom these hostages one at a time.”
I remember Louis L’Amour, on a morning news show about forty five years ago, saying that the Indian tribes broke as many treaties as the whites did.
This is conveniently forgotten by the revisionists.
There once was such a man.
His name was Tecumseh.
As soon as we killed him, among his allied British troops at the Battle of Thames in Canada in 1813, the success of our primary War aim in the war of 1812 was assured.
That war aim was to prevent the British-Tecumseh-Creek-Shawnee alliance from stripping the U.S. of The Northwest Territories and the Louisiana purchase.