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Has Thomas McDonald have a post for you!<\/a> \u00a0 I\u2019m as sensitive to the screwing that the Indians got at the hands of the US government as the next guy. \u00a0My great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee. \u00a0My wife is descended from no less than three lines of Indian. \u00a0Probably there is enough to claim some benefits in a grant or scholarship there. \u00a0But I also don\u2019t buy into the Dances With Wolves<\/i> notion that Indians were pure, beautiful, godlike beings of utter perfection. \u00a0In fact, like most things, the more actual hard evidence we find, the more a balanced take on the history of the period unfolds. <\/p>\n

Perhaps what happened was inevitable. \u00a0The Indians lost. \u00a0Their culture was such that it was incompatible with living next to the encroaching Europeans. \u00a0After all, we\u2019ve all heard about the White Man and his armies sweeping in and razing an Indian village and killing the women and children. \u00a0But we seldom hear of the Indians doing the same. \u00a0Perhaps we figure the white men and their families had it coming. \u00a0It wouldn\u2019t surprise me. \u00a0But nonetheless, what little evidence we pick up seems to suggest that, in the end, the Indians were as varied and as complex as the Europeans, and they waged war with one another and against the intruding immigrants from across the ocean. \u00a0And they lost. <\/p>\n

We can make amends, but not at the expense of ourselves. \u00a0At some point, unless we just don\u2019t care, we will have to stop disassembling the Civilization that the Church built as a way to make amends since, in the end, I doubt it will do much to assuage the anger anyway. \u00a0And furthermore, I will have to believe at some point that such bickering<\/a> has little to do with making amends, and a lot more to do with putting as many bullets in the dying leviathan that was the West. \u00a0A second and final last stand you might say.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"