Reply #100: Are you aware that BEFORE 1615, almost one fourth to one third of those who arrived in the New Land

[truedelphi]

(At least the Northern Part of the New Land) Went off and lived with the Native peoples.

This was a major bummer for the religious leaders who had planned on having large congregations to lord over.

So the Anti-Indigenous People's rhetoric came into being. Driven by the ambitions of the Pilgrim OverLords.

Native Americans = heathens. Equals "bad" people that the Good Lord wants killed.

Same thing is happening today within the RW congregations. Each Sunday they are instructed that the Muslims must be smited, so saith the Lord.

Not everyone who arrived on this soil had it out for the natives. A study of literature of the colonies will show you that people in Virginia in the Seventeen hundreds liked to go and sauna with
the tribes there. (What the tribal people called "sweats")

It is said that Benjamin Franklin took the wisdom of the New York tribes like the Mohawk and Seneca and imported it into the documents that became the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution.

In the early 1800's, Dolly Madison hosted parties and soirees to which the princes and princesses of various tribes were invited. Their presence was feted and they were mini celebrities of the era. This period of interaction did not last long - the visitors took influenza, small pox and other illnesses back to their tribes, which were then inadvertently wiped out.

People in the Carolinas lived side by side with the Native Americans. William Randolph Hearst's
biography talks about how the tribal people and their lives were interconnected with the whites. Everyone shared the land and the wildlife. This in the mid eighteen hundreds.

The Civil War hardened and corrupted the soldiers who survived. Many of them continued to need to be part of the Army - and joined with the Cavalry that was heading West to secure land for the settlers. Thus began the final extremely hostile and genocidal policies of our nation against the Native Americans.

And these programs were not necessarily supported by the liberals in New York City, Chicago, or Baltimore. Letters to the Editor pages always featured the opinion that the settlers and the Native Americans should live side by side. However, that viewpoint was not supported by the Federal Government. Our government wanted the Native AMericans exterminated, period.

Adolph Hitler would later say that it was a study of American history that led him to understand what could be done to any populace that a country needed to exterminate.