Four-step programme - thismodernworld.com
'"There was one little child, probably three years old, just big enough to walk through the sand. The Indians had gone ahead, and this little child was behind following after them. The little fellow was perfectly naked, travelling on the sand. I saw one man get off his horse, at a distance of about seventy-five yards, and draw up his rifle and fire - he missed the child. Another man came up and said, ‘Let me try the son of a bitch; I can hit him.’ He got down off his horse, kneeled down and fired at the little child, but he missed him. A third man came up and made a similar remark, and fired, and the little fellow dropped."
'Colorado generally still beams with pride over Sand Creek.'
"The ideas that dominated the thinking, if it may be termed that, of Americans who flooded the West during the nineteenth century are not beyond explanation. To achieve an understanding of them one only need remember that by far the larger number of persons, both male and female, who crossed the Missouri as emigrants were not blessed with great intellects. They were people of the backwoods, of the city slums, unlettered common laborers and farmers and hunters and trappers, a vast proportion of them the dregs of American society. They were, with some notable exceptions, uncouth, crude, ignorant and greedy. They were religious and racial bigots. All of them were looking for something for nothing."'
home1.gte.net - 'Lies i was sold' ... quite a read ... Baum who wrote the Wizard of Oz cheered on the Sand Creek Massacre, apparently, as did Theodore Rooseveldt ..... and something for Mqurice -
'The Spaniards melted down 99.999% of the gold and silver artifacts that they plundered from New World cultures, but the early examples of pre-Columbian gold and silversmithing astounded the European artists who saw them. When Cortés sent back the first royal bribe from the plunder of Mesoamerica, no less than Albrecht Dürer, one the greatest artists Europe ever produced, saw the treasures on display in 1520 and was awestruck. Dürer was once an apprentice goldsmith himself, and his appreciation of Mesoamerican artistry rendered him mute. Dürer wrote “In all the days of my life, I have seen nothing which touches my heart so much as these for, among them, I have seen wonderfully artistic things, and have admired the subtle ingenuity of man in foreign lands. Indeed, I do not know how to express my feelings about what I found there.”[82] When a subsequent bribe was sent by Cortés to Spain after the Aztecs were conquered, French pirates seized the biggest haul of loot to hit Europe's shores to that time, and the haul was eventually admired in the French Court. One of Europe’s greatest goldsmiths, Benvenuto Cellini, saw the loot at the French court and gave the opinion that Aztec goldsmithing was the most ingenious he had ever seen.[83] Those opinions by Europe's greatest artists did not prevent the director of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art from defending the fact that not one piece of pre-Columbian native art was on display in his museum. He said that native art was not art at all, but a curiosity that belonged in the natural history museum, next to the stuffed polar bears.[84] That director's opinion is not from a hundred years ago, but was uttered in our "enlightened" generation. ' |
