[jonascord]

Research the Battle of Wyoming and the Sullivan Expedition, in Luzerne County, PA, during the Revolution.

Colonists had LONG memories, and just because some native wasn't an Iroquois didn't make them innocent. It was just payback.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Man it’s going to suck for the snowflakes when the hammer comes down and collapse hits everywhere.

Long memories....Hmmmm....

[hanamizu]

Colonists had LONG memories, and just because some native wasn’t an Iroquois didn’t make them innocent. It was just payback.

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Of course. And when three generations has passed and no one heard the horror stories from someone who had lived through them, you start to hear of the “noble savage’. Starting in New England and then spreading west. In the far west this didn’t happen until the 20th century. Easterners were shocked by Wounded Knee, out west not so much, there were still folks around who could remember.

Imagine a human hunting you. A human who knows the land better than you do. A human who strikes without warning and then disappears. A human who seems to take pleasure in destroying your family and scattering their body parts with the intent to drive you mad. That’s what people faced in New England into the 1700s. It is why early New England farmers walked from their villages to farm their land, not live on the farm itself.

So yes, now that the Indians have been totally defeated and are no longer a threat to us, we can feel sorry about what happened to them. But before, they were a worthy and formidable foe—which is why sports teams are named after them.

[sauropod]

Research the John Corbly Massacre.

Greene County, PA, 1784.