The Comanches_ One of the Most Feared Tribes by North American Settlers - See U in History (720p)
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Native Americans were "noble savages"?
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At least this video reminded me of one of my favorite Black Angels songs, "Comanche Moon": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzm9BK5UbIA
The fact is that civilized and governed people cannot live side by side with the primitive, wild and ungoverned. You can't have law and order where the anarchy of stone age warriors reign. When white outlaws committed crimes on the frontier, they were subject to the rule of law while natives, who had an ancient tradition of raiding and plunder, were protected by their tribes and you couldn't just arrest Indian raiders without fighting their entire tribe. Our history has been molded to pity the natives getting slaughtered in battle by the military but ignore the many years of murder, mutilation, rape and plunder that whites were often forced to tolerate before the military finally took action. Years and decades of smaller atrocities had whites living in constant terror which was only relieved when the natives were crushed by warfare, sent to reservations and taught the arts of civilization so they could learn to leave their brutal stone age warrior lifestyle behind them.
I honestly don't even know what I would set out to read in the way of attempting to research/find/learn TRUE HISTORY of the "Native American". At least, I do know that when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, we weren't yet being fully inundated with a new history that implies the only bad race of people are the Whites. I was never made to feel guilty about anything we may have been learning about in history, and I actually can't even remember a whole lot of Native American talk. I had "American History" in my junior year of high school and it was taught by this very nice, older, bachelor gentleman type. He didn't seem to like our 1957 textbook all that much & usually spoke the entire class about his experiences from back in the day.
@Dani : As a beginning research volume on "native Americans", I would recommend "The Ecological Indian" by Shepard Krech III.
@Dani : Older books in the library used to reveal the brutal reality of the natives but have likely been weeded out and replaced with more politically sensitive subject matter. When you learn what terrible things Indians did to captive priests, women and children, you realize primitive, violent, superstitious stone agers were not the kind of people you'd want living next door to you. It would be like trying to get along with the Manson Family. "History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner" describes the horrors of enslavement of white women by savages. There are also various books describing the horrific ordeals that martyred Priests suffered at the hands of Indians, where they were burned alive, tortured, beaten, mutilated to look like monsters with no nose, ears, fingers, and generally treated worse than camp dogs by everyone including the children - who also took delight in wickedness.