The US appropriated the Black Hills from the Lakota Sioux, (not Sue), thousands of years removed for the control of the black hills which is a coveted mountain range.
But when you look at history the black hills many tribes fought for it and committed murder, pillage torture, and scalping for thousands of years.
The US did not take the black hills from its original occupants. The US arrived long after to take it from its original occupants.
The original occupants had long since been exterminated by other native American tribes. To be accurate, the US took the black hills from the most recent tribe that had taken it from the tribe before them.
The point is that white settlers were not introducing some new horror to the continent.
The Indian tribes that occupied the black hills were not scandalized like the settlers are now.
The white settlers were playing the same game of conquest that the Indian tribes were playing for thousands of years.
The same game that all people everywhere from across the earth had been playing since the dawn of human civilization.
It's absurd to treat the theft of the land of Europeans as a unique evil and we must take down our monuments in shame. Slavery, rape, pillaging and every evil thing you can imagine were common features of Indian conflict before the first light-skinned person showed up.
The white Europeans came and jumped into the fray, they didn't invent the fray. And we cannot say that white people were unique in their barbarism. Such a study is rendered absurd by studying the Comanche.
Read the literature and you will find that Indian tribes were brutal and warlike throughout the continent.
Not to mention the Spanish conquistadors who encountered the Mayan tribe's human sacrifice atrocities.
I mean what would you think when you saw beating hearts being ripped from babies? Beheading on a massive scale.
This does not excuse the white settlers during the 400 years clash of civilizations. You go back far enough and everybody was that way everywhere. But it does underscore the need for historical context. It was a harsh and violent age.
It's not whataboutism talk. It's about men that were taming a harsh and violent world throughout history.
Do you think that when people took the land, they had debates and dialogue? This whole thing of stolen land is silly. It's a movie.
But when you look at history the black hills many tribes fought for it and committed murder, pillage torture, and scalping for thousands of years.
The US did not take the black hills from its original occupants. The US arrived long after to take it from its original occupants.
The original occupants had long since been exterminated by other native American tribes. To be accurate, the US took the black hills from the most recent tribe that had taken it from the tribe before them.
The point is that white settlers were not introducing some new horror to the continent.
The Indian tribes that occupied the black hills were not scandalized like the settlers are now.
The white settlers were playing the same game of conquest that the Indian tribes were playing for thousands of years.
The same game that all people everywhere from across the earth had been playing since the dawn of human civilization.
It's absurd to treat the theft of the land of Europeans as a unique evil and we must take down our monuments in shame. Slavery, rape, pillaging and every evil thing you can imagine were common features of Indian conflict before the first light-skinned person showed up.
The white Europeans came and jumped into the fray, they didn't invent the fray. And we cannot say that white people were unique in their barbarism. Such a study is rendered absurd by studying the Comanche.
Read the literature and you will find that Indian tribes were brutal and warlike throughout the continent.
Not to mention the Spanish conquistadors who encountered the Mayan tribe's human sacrifice atrocities.
I mean what would you think when you saw beating hearts being ripped from babies? Beheading on a massive scale.
This does not excuse the white settlers during the 400 years clash of civilizations. You go back far enough and everybody was that way everywhere. But it does underscore the need for historical context. It was a harsh and violent age.
It's not whataboutism talk. It's about men that were taming a harsh and violent world throughout history.
Do you think that when people took the land, they had debates and dialogue? This whole thing of stolen land is silly. It's a movie.
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