[NativeSon]

The Civil War was an opportunity to make war on Federals

Yes. Trying to cloak it in nostalgia for the 'good old days of America' is bunk. To them the good old days were pre-America.

[Mamzelle]

I did point out earlier that the Cherokee made a lot of wars and dominated surrounding tribes. This wasn't to denigrate--just to put some reality in all the romance. It wasn't the biggest tribe around by accident--it absorbed many other tribes. Andrew Jackson betrayed them cruelly--but they were not without cruelty themselves.

No human being is.