How horridly terrifying.
My history professor doesn't focus on the violent aspects of the Natives, but he does love to talk about how the Natives plundered the land a lot more than we are typically taught. We are taught they respected the Earth, when really, some Indians actually chopped down trees like there was no tomorrow and wasted natural resources like crazy.
Can't say I wouldn't have done the same thing if I had been in their position. I recall reading how the Plains Indians used to slaughter huge numbers of buffalo, just for the hell of it. But this kind of thing scandalizes the PC crowd, who just must have their own peculiar vision of the Indian. For my part, I'd rather know the truth.
Fortunately I'm old enough to have attended school before political correctness took over - when we studied the native peoples of America, we heard all about the human sacrifices they made. It makes one think more kindly of the Conqusitadors - it was indeed the triumph of civilisation.
Regards, Ivan
Indeed. The Plains tribes, before the reintroduction of the horse to North America, hunted Bison by using fire to drive a huge herd off a cliff, then butchered the dead and dying beasts, taking only choice parts, leaving tons of dead bison to rot. I said that the horse was reintroduced to North America, and it's true. There had been large herds of wild horses some centuries before, but the Native Americans had eaten them into extinction...
the infowarrior