Lets see...'but these rituals were part of a complex worldview: the U.S. Calvary who killed the Indians at Wounded Knee believed...'
It ain't PC, but it's not that bad. One of the biggest lie perpetrated on our history is that we commit "genocide" on the Indians.
BS. They hit us as hard as we hit them. The only difference is technology. This nation would be split in half if they have the same tech we do or vice versa. In fact, I heard that in the first conflict between colonists and indians, they drew first blood.
it goes back so far in time that who drew first blood gets lost in the mist, but one thing that you don't hear about in today's PC "evil White Man" genocide b/s is how indian warfare allowed for attacking of undefended settlements, capture, torture and killing of innocent non-combatants - the women and children.
This may have been ok for the injuns - but when they came up against a Western Civilization people to whom such "acts" are the most vile atrocities, their number was up.