Yes they warred against other native tribes, and even enslaved and sacrificed them! LONG before the "white man" arrived! Can anyone document that carnage?
Their lives were brutal and short.
They gladly adopted what the "whites" brought to this continent, and adapted them into their own culture: horses! the wheel! axes, rifles, calico prints; they liked "fire water" pretty well.
And our ancestors learned from them as well. Native plants and cures, blanket designs, deerskin leggings and moccasins, fighting and hunting tactics. Etc.
It was the Brits that turned the tribes against the Americans. The Brits paid for American scalps in the Revolution and War of 1812, and in BOTH cases, ABANDONED their native allies! How much better had the tribes allied with the Americans!!
What could our relationship have been without the Brits encouraging their allied tribes to savage BLOODY MURDER against the American settlers?
Yes they warred against other native tribes, and even enslaved and sacrificed them! LONG before the "white man" arrived! Can anyone document that carnage?
Their lives were brutal and short.
They gladly adopted what the "whites" brought to this continent, and adapted them into their own culture: horses! the wheel! axes, rifles, calico prints; they liked "fire water" pretty well.
And our ancestors learned from them as well. Native plants and cures, blanket designs, deerskin leggings and moccasins, fighting and hunting tactics. Etc.
It was the Brits that turned the tribes against the Americans. The Brits paid for American scalps in the Revolution and War of 1812, and in BOTH cases, ABANDONED their native allies! How much better had the tribes allied with the Americans!!
What could our relationship have been without the Brits encouraging their allied tribes to savage BLOODY MURDER against the American settlers?
and some were eliminated
29 years unslaved from bureaucracy is 29 more years than we get.
Exactly...
Seems everyone conveniently forgets this part when they shout "death to Whitey", using every blessed thing Whitey created along the way...
How's South Africa doing?