[Jimmyclyde]

The written comments left by other visitors were divided, but most said they hoped the museum would keep both interpretations of history.

Yes I like this idea. Let's get the Nazi interpretations of WWII or their interpretations of say the "summer camps of joy and fun" known to us in our interpretation as the death camps.

What a joke.

[Jimmyclyde]

bump

[KellyAdmirer]

Down the memory hole....

[JulieRNR21]

Next....they will probably cover up this offensive quote on the Deerfield "Civil War Monument which stands on the Old Meetinghouse Hill which is within the limits of the Old Fort built A.D. 1689 and which remained until A.D. 1758. And which was one of the chief defences of the early settlers against the attacks of the savage indians."

"Aye call it holy ground
The spot where first they trod!
They have left unstained what here they found
Freedom to worship God."

[BenLurkin]

"On the night of May 13, a group of warriors raided Hatfield and made off with cattle, driving them up to the campsite by the falls. The settlers were determined to recover their cattle. Word was sent out: who wants to join a force against the tribes at Peskeompscut. Local inhabitants, some from as far south as Springfield, and a few garrison soldiers responded to the call. By May 18, 150 men and boys assembled in Hatfield. Captain William Turner led the group past Bloody Brook and the edge of Deerfield, where they crossed the Deerfield River. Then they wound through about 2 miles of unbroken forest, crossed the Green River, and then pushed on to Mount Adams which was within a mile of the falls."

[Cicero]

I had a colleague at NYU, since dead, who wrote in a book review that his ancestry was part Indian and that in his opinion American Indians often behaved with excessive cruelty. Torture was a regular part of their culture.

There was much to admire about the Indians, too. But the bad has to be taken with the good. Rewriting history to make loonie PCs feel more comfortable isn't the way to deal with the problems of the past.

[Looking4Truth]

Phrases like 'bloodthirsty savages' are hurtful to people," said Suzanne Flynt

What a load of crap!

'Hurtful' is another word like 'diversity' that I'm sick and tired of hearing. 'Hurtful' is when the 'bloodthirsty savages' put your feet in the fire or when the 'settlers' bus' a cap in yo' ass!

The feminization and wussification of America continues.

[pdlglm]

If they really wanted to be hurtful...

"Mary decided to stay in their heathen and backward culture that had yet to even invent the wheel by the time the colonist settled the land."

[Verginius Rufus]

If people ever read the Declaration of Independence past the first two sentences, they might be upset at the part about "the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions."

Upset, that is, at Jefferson's wording, not at the incidents which provoked his language.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Do you know that the monument to those slain by INDIAN SAVAGES on the square in Santa Fe,NM has the word savages chiseled out?

The word "Selvege" originally meant "dwellers of the green forest". It was only after the shear brutality of Indian warfare that the term took on a new meaning.

"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless INDIAN SAVAGES, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

[GATOR NAVY]

"It was hard for me and other members of the staff to rationalize the words. Phrases like 'bloodthirsty savages' are hurtful to people..."

How about this rationalization: "These words were written over 120 years ago. People thought differently than they do now."

If the museum curator is too stupid to understand this simple but powerful fact of history then she needs to find a new job.