——The way we treated the Indians was horrific.——
Yes it was....and some treatment were well deserved...
The way Indians treated each was often culinary!
Ask the Aztecs? or read these! (see below)
Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America 1st Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Cannibalism-Headhunting-Human-Sacrifice-America/dp/0911469338/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cannibalism+in+north+american+indians&qid=1566240206&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World (Early American Places)
https://www.amazon.com/Insatiable-Appetites-Imperial-Encounters-Cannibals/dp/1479877654/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=cannibalism+in+north+american+indians&qid=1566240313&s=gateway&sr=8-2
Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Corn-Cannibalism-Prehistoric-Southwest/dp/0874809681/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=cannibalism+in+north+american+indians&qid=1566240427&s=gateway&sr=8-8
This is an academically explored subject (Hence the books!) but one which ignored by those laboring in sweat shops of the college/university classrooms! It doesn’t fit the white man bad, red man good narrative! Nobel savage nonsense still prevalent! (Rousseau has a lot to answer for!)
The natives were a Stone Age people!!!!!! They did stone age things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s been recent work done on sites in Neolithic Europe (New Stone Age)
The brie & white wine (or is it whine!) crowd of academic Europe are shocked! Shocked I say ! To discover that eary Euorpean man kild ate & massacred each other left & right!
Many many new excavations show frotresses (built for a reason!), destroyed , burned & teh inhabitants killed!
Its what stone age people do!
And to be fair, here’s a US mountain man that the movie Jeremiah Johnson was based on:
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)
and Africa & Asia is full of the same!
Why? They are human beings too!
One things humans definitely share across all races & cultures is killing each other be it family, clan, tribe, race or nation!!
my previous response was
Not a rant aimed at you
Just a rant aimed any notion that the Indians were all Tonto and somehow were more moral then anyone else!