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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.
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.
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.
Progressives see the flaws in our system, and imagine that we could have a perfect utopia if only we could get rid of our system. In order to make a belief in utopia more plausible, they point at examples of people who were almost perfect before the Europeans came along and ruined everything. They count on the fact that very few people know anything about Amerinds.
My family farm is less than 10 miles from Fort Parker. Growing up I remember stories of my great great grandfather and family having many conflicts with the Comanche.
One of them was of the family seeking shelter at the fort and having to fight a running battle with them trying to get to there.
The Left loves its myths ...
Bmk
It’s not simple. Certain tribes were raiders, warlike, and savage. Others like the Hopi, were not. Like any other race, or culture, the American Indians represented a spectrum. Historically, they good ones were treated badly, and the bad ones probably weren’t treated badly enough. They are people, just like any other, with all the failings and success of all humans. People can disagree, and personal experiences likely have much to do with the impressions today. Sadly, ‘savages’ often gained territory and influence, while ‘peaceful’ Indians suffered. Perhaps the greatest thing to learn from the past is how lucky we are to have a Constitutional Republic, and how much it’s worth fighting for.
Most of this American Indian revisionist history began in the late 1960s and increased after the 1973 takeover at Wounded Knee.
Two of the worst movies, fun to watch but totally inaccurate, were LITTLE BIG MAN and the horrid SOLDIER BLUE.
After 1973, the American Indian could do no wrong. Movies about modern Indians showed them to have a sixth sense about nearly everything, and showed the evil White Man to be stupid. Older movies were recut to make the Indians look better. I remember seeing THE WAR WAGON on TV out of Tulsa Oklahoma. When Howard Keel says “Dumb Indians!” the sound goes off.
Anyone remember the Mazola Margarine commercials from that time?
In the early 1980s OETA, out of OKC, put on a series called IMAGES OF INDIANS, about how Hollywood has portrayed the Indians. at one point in the program they talk about Indians torturing, and one young man breaks in and says..”That’s not so! Indians NEVER did anything like that!” But the did!
About that time, National Geographic published a dig in which they found the bones of a white woman who had been scalped in the late 1500s. Letters to the editor claimed it to be false, but NG then mentioned how proof of scalping had been found in the past. NG had earlier published engravings by Theodor de Bry showing Indians dancing over the scalps and cut off limbs of their enemies.
Anyone who doubts should look at Massacre at Crow Creek, long before the evil White Man came.
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/stories/0201_0122.html
Da*n! Now you got me started!
