Posted on 10/11/2017 4:32:24 PM PDT by SJackson
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I remember watching 3:10 to Yuma and Russell Crowe remarked why their party cant go through a pass, even thought the govt offered them land and the scene was when he was being escorted as a prisoner. He said “Well Sir, because those Comanches love to butcher and murder people. You wont make it.”
We used to be able to call it savagery.
For those of us who love reading about American Indians, there is lots and lots of original literature written by first person observers from the time, including the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Modern scholarship on Native Americans is a joke, it’s just a weapon in the ideological jihad against America by radical faculty. It’s all intended to support the genocide and racism narrative for modern political goals of open borders, redistribution, anti-white racism and ending national self-government.
We name our most deadly .mil gear after their tribes for a reason.
I had an 1805 geography book with definitions. It defined savages as people who had no written records.
Texas Rangers were key in the early success of the revolver. Rangers sought after it because of the volume of fire it provided. Up until then the settlers on the western frontier (bounded by the Comanche) had to face fast firing bows and close combat with single shot muskets. The Colt Patterson revolver was key in securing and expanding westward expansion in Texas and the Plains states.
An early allusion to the importance of 2nd Amendment rights. Lawmen and Rangers couldn’t be everywhere on the frontier at once, and if you weren’t adequately armed you were dead.
Read “Empire of the Summer Moon”, an excellent history of the Comanche Indians in Texas and Oklahoma during the 1800’s.
I’ve read a lot of history books which dealt with wars, conquests, and tribal warfare. When it came to savagery, cruelty beyond imagination, and atrocities, the Comanches were absolutely the worst American Indian tribe by far.
After I read this book, it confirmed for me that some cultures/societies throughout human history deserved to be defeated and exterminated. The Comanches were one of these cultures.
Yes, but it was noble savagery. In many ways the noble savage early fake news.
Chief Seattle owned slaves too, but......
I thought it was fake years ago. Look, it says:
I am a savage and do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.
It was supposed to be written in 1854. There weren't any railroads in Washington State at that time. And when I read it now, I can also see that buffalo weren't common in the Pacific Northwest Indians. They weren't prairie Indians, and the big kill-off of buffalo on the plains hadn't yet begun.
Dumb forger, but a lot of people believed it.
On some level I really believed that Native Americans were kinder and gentler and more spiritual.”””
Not me. They tried to sell me the “noble savage” rubbish way back in the 60s when I was in grade school. I had one problem with this : Were these Indians not Men? Were they not as innately flawed as any man? To think them somehow spontaneously noble is itself a bigotry.
Read books by Terry C. Johnston.
Not every culture is equal and deserving to survive.
The Hekawi are a peaceful tribe.
When I was a boy, I lived a couple of houses down from one of Quanah’s grandsons and his boy.
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