You ever learn some shit about history you already knew from school but it kind of bothers you all over again? I've been watching Ken Burns "The West" and obviously I knew about the horrible shit done to the Native Americans and to the buffalo but learning it all over again as an adult makes me feel pretty sick. This is a great country but we did horrible things to bring it about
I mention handing out small pox blankets and sending the Indians on a death march every Thanksgiving and Columbus Day to my kids.
I don't know if it was aggressive. It was manifest destiny. It was God's will that Christians colonize the Americas. Allahu akbar and all that shit.
This motherfucker right here personally presided over the extermination of an entire Native American camp, including all women and children. Don't get it twisted; it wasn't all slow attrition from disease and random skirmishes that took out the Indians. The US govt and private citizens with their support had no problem just wholesale murdering them like Nazis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chivington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre
I feel like I need to make a point that my post was sarcastic. I was pointing out how we conducted a mass extermination of an indigenous people in the name of "God" to institute our "Sharia" law in place of their laws/society.
Chivington and his men took scalps and other body parts as battle trophies, including human fetuses and male and female genitalia. He was also Methodist preacher
I can't believe they took that part out of the peanuts Thanksgiving special. Pussification of America
I'm reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee for the first time and finished the chapter on Sand Creek last night. Immediately looked up Chivington, hoping he got strung up for that. Instead, he wound up marrying his dead son's widow. She filed for divorce (pretty rare and gutsy back then) and he bummed money off of her relatives. Died saying he stood by what he did at Sand Creek. It did ruin his political career, apparently, so there's that.
The ken burns doc has you pumped up to like chivington at first because of his success in the civil war. Then he has to go and slaughter hundreds of women and children
He was in a meeting in Denver with the governor and some chiefs who had come to negotiate peace. Indians said he looked all large and wooly with unstable eyes, matching the buffalo they hunted on the plains. Turned the page, saw that pic TC posted. Chiefs nailed it.
It is superb. Sadly the Indian wars were inevitable but the biggest tragedy was the end game...obviously.
That pic belongs in the African American thread...that dude is lit as fuck. His squad is ready to dance or else
So here's a not so fun fact. While going through some old boxes a family member found an article about my maternal great grandmother. After the trail when they got closer to what is now Oklahoma she was briefly taken in by a white family because all her family died on the way there. She was eventually adopted by another Native family of a different tribe. We did not know this nor do we actually have proof other than the article. Now let's switch to the fraternal side. My last name is one tribe's language meaning the name of another tribe. One theory for this is that when families died on the trail the children were adopted by other families on the go. All doing a DNA check tells me is that I'm Native. In closing, fuck Andrew Jackson.