You know, over the last eight to ten years, I have invested considerably in re-establishing a 21st Century pastoral semi nomadic cohort, principally for purposes of land and resource management but also for national security, disaster preparedness, and a way to both create lasting careers with which to support families and deal with the coming displacements of increasingly capable automation. Needless to say, that research dovetails considerably with the historic interests and cultural predispositions of Indian tribes.
So to see you dwell with such bitterness and at least distorted impressions by emphasis upon events from 400 years ago appears to throw up a barrier to any degree of rational reconciliation, redress, and restoration of the connection with the land that animated Indian people for millennia.
Drop the bile. It's not good for you. It doesn't build a future or buy much of anything. It alienates those who would invest in a richer and more productive planet both for people and for wildlife.
I’m a bit out of touch because a colleague and close friend of 35 years just died, but I do have time to relate to those interested, a perhaps indicative book in which a US Army officer’s choice tells us much about the Indian culture.
When faced with where to have his child spend the summer while he was away, he chose the local Indian community, not the white community. The boy’s recollections were taken just before the boy’s death and are available on Amazon.
I think the title was Indian Summer. Carry-Okie can tell you the details, as I learned of them from him.
For those who believe the recent ‘history’ taught in the Pooblic Skrewl Collectives, might I suggest a Google search of “revanchist history”.