Alan: Sound research will show that for every white person killed by Indians, many thousands of Indians were killed by white people. (I am prepared for this hypothesis to be proven wrong, but for me the unbridled carnage wrought by white people is a self-evident truth.)
These same murderous white people were simultaneously stealing Indian land de facto and de jure.
When not killing natives in cold blood (often by putting bounties on Indian scalps), white settlers rounded them up on unwanted reservation land, forcibly sending their children to culture-destroying boarding schools where they were routinely abused both physically and metaphysically.
The Indian Removal Act
When not killing natives in cold blood (often by putting bounties on Indian scalps), white settlers rounded them up on unwanted reservation land, forcibly sending their children to culture-destroying boarding schools where they were routinely abused both physically and metaphysically.
If "the tables had been turned," white "natives" would have resorted to techniques worse than those of ISIS to protect their "turf" from outside invaders.
At bedrock, Manifest Destiny and The White Man's Burden were rhetorical rationales - disproportionately devised by "Good Christians" - to "exterminate the savages".
The Gruesome Story of Hannah Duston, Whose Slaying of Indians Made Her an American Folk "Hero"
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