Back in the early 1970s everything became pro-Indian, from TV shows to movies to advertisements. “You call it corn, WE call it Maze!” (Mazola spread.) White Man Bad! Indian Good!
They completely ignored the history of the past to make the Indian living in Paradise, got along well with his neighbor, only did the Happy Dance, did not scalp(White Man did it!) or torture!
Then came the find at Crow Creek that threw all that into a cocked hat! Soon more finds, and archaeologists who had to hide their work began to republish their findings. Suddenly a new knowledge of the Indian emerged, and it was not happy dancing.
How the tribes treated each other BEFORE The White Man arrived...
https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge
https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/basketmaker-ii-cave-7-massacre-or-cemetery/
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/
https://prezi.com/z9ioohxrdgat/anasazi-cannibalism/?fallback=1
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873
https://www.historynet.com/when-the-sioux-ambushed-pawnee-hunters-at-massacre-canyon/
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1593823
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-skulls-not-crime-scene-human-sacrifice-ad-900/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexican-site-reveals-brutal-sacrifice-of-spanish-conquistadors/
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002
http://blogoklahoma.us/place/117/kiowa/cutthroat-gap-massacre
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CU012
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CL003
Very sad to see these close.How are we to learn anything about those who arrived here before we did.
There are those who wish to erase any trace of history at all
(we know who “they” are).
History is history,and cannot be changed by ignoring it or trying to erase it.