Let’s finally recognize the slavery, conquest, and genocide of Native Americans by Native Americans

[rangerrebew]

Let’s finally recognize the slavery, conquest, and genocide of Native Americans by Native Americans

Opinion by Christopher Tremoglie
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Pre-Columbian Native American culture on the American continents was one of war, massacres, genocide, and slavery. It doesn’t make Native Americans unique in any way but rather, just like every other culture, society, and civilization that has existed in history.

However, these facts are typically excluded from today’s public education system. Instead, a radical left-wing revision of history is taught that portrayed Native Americans living in peaceful and docile societies that fell victim to the greed and brutality of European invaders. It is and always has been a fictitious historical narrative.
 
History did not begin in 1492. The truth is Native American tribes were brutally killing each other in the Western Hemisphere for centuries before the first European settlers ever appeared. Left-wing scholars from the Howard Zinn school of thought have valiantly tried to hide these facts; nevertheless, they’re true.

Native American tribes were empire builders no different than the ancient Romans, Greeks, and Germanic tribes of Europe. Indigenous people were no better than Genghis Khan and the Golden Horde of the Mongol Empire. The tribes lusted to conquer, enslave, and pillage for power, resources, and land, just as the Ashanti, Mali, Ghana, and Egyptian empires of Africa.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/let-s-finally-recognize-the-slavery-conquest-and-genocide-of-native-americans-by-native-americans/ar-AA1hWl0N?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3e76668ad4564b609e78d5ab4333ce47&ei=24

[Timber Rattler]

General Miles was right!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN90wZRnyM0

[PeteS in CA]

The Iroquois League was not some sort of experiment in republican governance, it was a military alliance against Algonquian-speaking tribes.

The Apaches and Comanches were at war for a century or two before the Spanish arrived in what is now the SW US and accidentally reversed the balance of power. Etc. ......

Besides modern Victim-Oppressor dogma, the Noble Savage romantic fantasy and dearth of archaeological evidence hinder learning about and understanding the reality that inter-tribal warfare was frequent, and the purpose was territorial conquest.

[Fishrrman]

I will hazard a guess that at least some of the Indian tribes were mostly-peaceful. Probably in the east.

But a good number of others were nothing less than... savages.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, they were very likely worse than Ghengis Khan and the Mongols.  If you submitted to Mongol rule and paid your taxes, the Mongols granted you freedom of religion (first country to do that), tax exemption and stipends for your clergy, encouragement of whatever agriculture or industry you had, brought you into what was then the largest free-trade zone in the world.  If you didn't submit, well, after some horrific treatement, you ceased to exist.  St. Aleksandr Nevsky -- one of the few soldier-saints we Orthodox Christians have who weren't martyred for their faith -- had Novgorod submit to Mongol rule precisely because they granted freedom of religion, and nothing this-wordly was worth fighting a war over.  He fought and defeated the Teutonic Knights because they were intent on forcing Latin Christianity on Russia by force of arms.

[Smokin Joe]

I will hazard a guess that at least some of the Indian tribes were mostly-peaceful. Probably in the east.

But a good number of others were nothing less than... savages.

They all played rough with others. While we are on the subject, the tribes of Europe were pretty rough, too--and for that matter, most everywhere else. Our Human sensibilities about slavery and 'cruel and unusual punishment' aren't more than a couple centuries old, no matter which culture or how much we pretend.

Blaming it all on the white man is just so much bullshit.