***Wrong word. The word should be "Greed".***
Wrong.
What changed the word "Dweller of the green forest"
to mean unmitigated brutality.
One preacher of the time thought the Indian tribes were the lost tribes of Israel. After geting to know them better he concluded they were the children of the devil because of their sadistic savagery.
yup. We were sooooo much more savage than the whites who came here. Yup. I tell ya, what possessed us to kill Europeans, who only wanted to come here and live in peace and harmony with those already here? We should be ashamed of ourselves. We were so bad. Can you ever forgive us?
In case you didn't know, that was sarcasm. The bottom line is simple - the "Indian Problem" was the direct result of one simple thing - Greed.
To say that it was a problem because of our "brutality" is completely and totally false, simplifies an issue to a point where it makes zero sense, and totally excuses the greed, dishonesty, and brutality of the other side.