The article doesn’t deny significant mistreatment. But what Sherman encountered, if your article is fair (and I am not competent to assess it), are not the Indians who had populated the New World, but rather the last ragged remnants thereof. Indeed, the Great Plains would have been uninhabitable to the the Indians whom Sherman abused, had not the horse been introduced from Eurasia: The Sioux, for instance, were not native to the Dakotas, but to the upper Allegheny.
Too bad we cannot just get bill o’r to comment on all these discussions—being the foremost numbnutz of all, I’m sure he could settle all questions once and for all.
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Dick G
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