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Originally posted by Sampson1986:
As far as the genocide thing, there was wrong on both sides. It was wrong for the U.S. cavalry to charge in and massacre Indians. It was also wrong for the Indians to kill whites and fight with other Indian tribes. |
Uh... it was wrong of them to fight with other Indian tribes? First of all, that's irrelevant; second of all, take a European history course, it was nothing compared to what Europe did to itself, let alone the rest of the world. And you can't really blame the natives for fighting (trying to, at least) to protect lands that had been theirs for thousands of years. We basically just said, okay, get out of the way, America's coming-- it's our manifest destiny! There's no way that the natives were in the wrong just for protecting themselves and their lands.