[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Characterizing the Cherokees during Jackson's time, and during the Civil War, as having some sort of Napoleonic brilliance of military strategy is your variation on the sentimentalized "noble Red Man"-- and is actually far more condescending than characterizing them as savage.

Total BS! You were referring to them fighting the British then the French, or was it the other way around? Not a historian, but I think they were happy to fight against either side and fought for the side that gave them guns, simple as that. I did not try to make then noble, their voracity was as bad actually worse than the white man, but the white man was better educated and should have known better, but then again it was a more primitive time. Hopefully we as humans will know better the next time. However I do believe that the Cherokees were much better educated than most Indian tribes and their leaders capable of writing a declaration of war, something you seem to doubt. Or was that someone else?

[Mamzelle]

re: However I do believe that the Cherokees were much better educated than most Indian tribes and their leaders capable of writing a declaration of war, something you seem to doubt. )))

I suppose a chief could write it. And? What exactly would that mean? We still are not talking Crazy Horse.

I detest the sentimentalization of the American Indian. I find it highly demeaning.