But OTOH, in waging war against the white man, the Indians were unspeakably barbaric to prisoners. My best friend is half Apache and a retired airborne ranger. He is also a history teacher. During our many conversations on the topic he enlightened me as to the methods employed by his ancestors against settlers and their women and children. Sounds a lot like the Jihadis to me.
Ultimate Red man's revenge: if you live on the reservation, you pay no federal income taxes AND you get to build multimillion dollar casinos that directly benefit the tribe. You also get your own police force and the right to ticket ANYBODY passing through reservation territory. Another revenue producing enterprise that isn't taxed.
I'm just a student of history and not a teacher but I was under the impression that the only verified case of intentional disease spreading was done by the english before the US existed as a separate entity. I'm very curious what historical data you would be referring to. Claims of "stealing" land from native Americans is also, from a historical perspective, misleading. Indians constantly fought over territory and "stole" land themselves. Indians also had a funny way of breaking treaties themselves.
I'm not suggesting that the US is or was always in the right concerning the indigenous peoples but we treated them better then they treated themselves. I also resent that they claim the term "native American". I was born here so I'm a "Native American" too. Of course all of this is beside the main topic.