[cripplecreek]

It so happened that an 11-year-old boy came home from school one day and told his parents that the first European white people who came to America were so mean that they tried to kill the Indians by giving them blankets with smallpox germs.

Most smallpox transmission to indians was purely accidental. More often than not the disease was passed to the indians through casual contact and legitimate gifts and trade items.

[Sacajaweau]

Indians were their own worst enemy. They did not wear halos. I think it was one of the Roosevelt boys who said "If we didn't come along, they would have killed themselves off."

This "wonderful Indians" is wearing thin.

Yes, they're peaceful now...but they sure love our courts...and the handouts.

[Mogger]

At various times smallpox was used as a way to dispose of Indians, as they lacked any immunity to it, and our Army did give several tribes smallpox infected blankets.

I have no problem with this, considering what many Indians did to many white settlers, many of which were my ancestors and cousins.

Atrocities work both ways.

I descend from Vermont settlers who were captured in Royalton and Sharon, Vermont, hauled to Quebec and kept or sold to the French as slaves.

Several of the siblings of my ancestor were killed by the Indians on the way north for not keeping up or making noise.

One, a baby was grabbed by the ankles and had his brains dashed out on a rock. Two others who were older were tomahawked and scalped as they died.

And yes, many ideas used in the Constitution did come from the Iroquois nation, which was a confederation of six Indian nations.

Too bad more people don't know the real history of this country.

Many savage acts were committed by both Indians and Whites.

That was then, now is now.

We all need to know about it, but other than that, get over it.

One of my best friends is a full blooded Indian.

Friday I pulled out his truck that was mired in the mud with our Unimog.

Last fall I bought a bunch of solar stuff and a composting toilet from him. He gave me a really good deal.

Every Friday we, and a bunch of other VERY politically incorrect people have dinner together.

[MtnClimber]

The evil white people gave the indians iphones with intentionally faulty GPS apps. They did this so the indians would go into the forest and get lost, never to return again. Bad, bad white people.