Reply #72: it's kinda funny

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that you say that I am the one trying to deny history, when what I object to is a history that is written as myth, telling only one side, and framing it as a evil whites/native victims story. Would there be no objections if the story was told the other way?

"Settlers then were murdered whenever the Indians met them in the forests of New Jersey, and De Vries' innocent settlement was ruined."

Chief Metacomet wiped out 13 settlements and killed 600 adult white men before the tide of battle turned

"After this event, many Cheyenne, including the great warrior Roman Nose, and Arapaho men joined the Dog Soldiers and sought revenge on settlers throughout the Platte valley, killing as many as 20,000 civilians."

23 April 1637
Attack on settlers working in field near Wethersfield. Seven to nine settlers are killed and two girls are taken captive.

August 23, 1862 - About 650 Dakota attack New Ulm. Town is burned; 34 die and 60 are wounded, but the barricaded area holds out.

Well what do you know there. The Dakota apparently tried to do to New Ulm what the Puritans did to Mystic. The only reason we don't get to celebrate the death of 2,000 white people there is because they failed. If they had succeeeded and returned home, I am betting that mothers and fathers and brothers and wives would be giving thanks for the safe return of their warriors.

"A little more than a century before, in 1837, the Mandan tribe of the high plains found itself cooped up in two defended camps by their Sioux enemies when epidemic broke out. As a result their numbers were reduced from about 2,000 to a mere 30-40 survivors in a matter of weeks; and those survivors were promptly captured by enemies so that the Mandan tribe ceased to exist." Plagues and Peoples p. 205


It would almost appear that not all of the brutal, inhumane and evil chapters were written by white people. Or one could conclude that our country was founded on a genocide and slavery. Because, of course, all the farms and factories and roads of New York, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa were created by slaves.

Yes, Wendell Barry wrote the same thing "If there is any law that has been consistently operative in American history, it is that the members of any established people or group or community sooner or later become 'redskins' - that is they become the designated victims of an utterly ruthless, officially sanctioned and subsidized exploitation." p. 4 Unsettling of America