[dirtboy]

True, in the short term. In the long run, the exploding white settler population would eventually want the land of the Indians, who were declining in number. The only way to prevent them from taking it would be by means of an absolute monarchy which would protect the Indians.

The Walking Purchase shows the Indians from Penn's era were willing to sell more land - but were shafted by Penn's heirs.

I do agree that what happened with the Indians was typical of contact with indigenous peoples in the past. Doesn't mean it should be sugarcoated, though.

[Psalm 144]

I do agree that what happened with the Indians was typical of contact with indigenous peoples in the past. Doesn’t mean it should be sugarcoated, though.

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This sort of cuts to the chase.

Frontier, existential wars are inherently ugly. The image of Rousseau’s “Noble Savage” is propaganda, but so is this drool about the Custer, Crook and BIA as avenging Christian paladins and angels of light.

As another poster noted, Sitting Bull is being co-opted by the agitator in chief to agitate. As Voltaire noted, “[h]istory is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”