Speaking of genocide didn’t those “indigenous people” grow tobacco. Even King James called tobacco a “noxious” weed. Millions of people died over the centuries from lung cancer, COPD and a host of other respiratory ailments from that noxious weed.
Hard times make for hard people.
The Indians were living in hard times.
What galls me is the papering-over of their history and the swipe at Americans of European Descent for being too “hard” on the Indians.
Good post.
One of the Roosevelt boys said: If it wasn’t for the white man, there wouldn’t be any Indians left...they killed each other.
Skinning alive was also common practice among native American tribes. The entire false history that the white man came to America just to kill the peaceful native inhabitants is just another human sacrifice to the god of political correctness. Native Americans didn’t own North America—they lived in individual tribes separated by vast areas of no man’s land. They no more owned it than the wild jack rabbits and buffalo that lived there. They talk about Europeans spreading diseases, but plagues also appeared in Europe that came from America. Syphilis, for one, killed millions.
As has been said many times, “The white man didn’t do anything to the Indians that they didn’t do to each other before he got here.”......................
Like dummy NFLers who stood for England’s anthem and knelt America’s. The British empire had nothing to do with the slave trade.’
We should call it Cannibal Day.
Sicilian actor Espera de Corti cries because he can't get a job unless he pretends to be an Indian.
Excellent post.
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz should be required reading for every American school child in High School.
Here is my review and summation:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/06/review-of-true-history-of-discovery-and.html
Here is a link to the Amazon page:
Don’t forget that the native Americans who ‘lived in harmony’ with nature hunted numerous species to extinction including:
Mammoths, mastodons, aurocs, great sloths, saber tooth tigers, etc.
I’ve read a number of books about life’s on the frontier (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky) with first-hand accounts. The natives were ornery cusses, you might say. They would lop limbs off captured enemies, roast them, and have the victim watch them eat him! They would open your abdomen, tie an end of your intestines to a post, and force you to walk around the post, wrapping your guts around the post.
We should honor this?
Besides, what the hell did they accomplish in 10,000 years? Maybe invent the wheel? Nope.
Liberals want to demonize Europe and America, so they paint Native Americans as a unified group that was peaceful and loving. The truth is that both the Europeans and the Native Americans were savages, but the former was much stronger than the latter.
Finally, it's not right to retroactively apply today's morals to that time, much less to do so selectively. How many of those who want to rip down statues of Columbus have a problem with Communist greats like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao?
Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean while indigenous people were dragging their homes around behind them from place to place.
If these folks want to emulate “indigenous people” so much they should accept a 45 year lifespan, and give up their cel phones, computers, cars, and indoor plumbing. Oh, and hunt or raise their own food.
Next I will be told that the native people did not tame unicorns and use their rainbow farts to craft peace and plenty among all people.
Read some Allan W. Eckert historical novels. The dialogue is fictional but the events are thoroughly researched historical facts. There was a lot of sadistic brutality going on perpetrated by all sides. The Indians committed more than their share.
There were also people on all sides who rejected that brutality.
Times were different. A lot different.