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To: JakeStraw who wrote (391)3/17/2005 3:56:54 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 399
 
Is your real name Ward Churchill? You sound a lot like him.

Look, a lot of white men were evil and stupid when it came to dealing with native Americans. What happened to them was tragic, but it wasn't any different than what they did to each other on the scale that they were capable of with their technology. If they had had a more advanced technology, there's no telling what would have happened. Who is to say that their warfare, which was an imperative in their society, would not have escalated to a level where some or all of them could be wiped out? We'll never know.

Native Americans are human beings just like every body else. No more, no less. They have the exact same attributes, and the exact same propensity for good and evil.

DDW did not paint an accurate picture of native Americans.

The only thing that works is to live and let live. I doubt if that is going to happen any time soon, given human history as it is.
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