That was exactly my point. The Indians were killing each other for centuries before the first Europeans showed up, and they were certainly as aggressive as the whites (both sides who fought the French and Indian War employed enthusiastic Indian allies).

James Huggins makes a very valid point in that if the Indians had not been conquered, the United States would not exist in its present form. I would add that there is a dilemma that comes from wholesale condemnation of the treatment of the Indians, since every American reading this has profited directly from the conquest of Indian land. If what was stolen must be returned, are we not morally obligated to hand over most of the country? Should the colonists have been happy with the just the eastern seaboard?

So long as tribalism does not interfere with or replace moral and ethical concerns, a certain amount of tribalism is vital to a people’s survival. Naturally, it is only white people who have had the tribalism beaten out of them over the past several decades. Slowly but surely, it is returning. All other things being equal, the interests of my people trump yours. My people, right or wrong.

In the interests of transparency, I will also state that this woman was my blood. She was abducted with several other women and children by the Comanche, raped, impregnated, beaten, and brainwashed. Her grandfather John Parker had his genitals cut off before being scalped. Those who want to chide me into feeling guilty about what happened to the Indians will be waiting a long while.

I made a note to myself at that point that I wasn’t going to go see any of his movies until everyone else has seen them.

That’s pretty easy for me to say, however, since I rarely go to movies.

First, a belated Happy Thanksgiving!

Second, in regard to Van Wijk’s comment:
It seems to me that he was repudiating the “Nobel Savage” myth that is common among leftists in regards to the Native Americans. While the Europeans certainly weren’t saints, neither were the Native tribes. Many of the tribes were fierce warriors, not meek little innocents. The colonists nearly lost the fight against the Native American tribes.

PS- Van Wijk, please correct me if I misinterpreted your comment.

As is always the case, the history books are written by the victors.

Dan

The word “native” is used by liberals in order to delegitimize the actions of Europeans (“They were here first”), but liberals always attempt to arrest that train of thought before it can arrive at its logical conclusion. Once the “native” argument is begun, it never stops. The land that the natives occupied when Europeans arrived was owned by other “natives” at one point, before these were displaced or massacred by the “natives” that came after. All nations are created from conquest, including those of the “natives.”

If you make a treaty, you should keep it, but the Indians were not civilized people. The depredations common to virtually all the tribes, including the murder and scalping of women and children, could never be forgiven or forgotten. When one looks at the vast sweep of military history, it quickly becomes apparent that warfare is common to all mankind, and the primary sin of the Europeans is that they were simply better conquerors than the “natives.”

[What was done to the Indians, on the other hand, was not very civilized either.]

I would love to see privileged leftists like Angelina live in accord with their believes; it doesn’t happen.