Reply #40: From a liberal textook on history I had [View All]

[The Straight Story]

(and worth noting, was one of the first liberal texts on American History, circa 1935) Indians would capture other tribes in the ohio valley and the males would made to act like women and serve the male tribe members who had defeated them.

And it goes on and on.

This was not a land governed by one people. Each tract was fought for and many died for. There was no consensus among the Indians here. They took sides in the whole thing.

Sure - they got screwed by us. And it was certainly wrong IMHO. But overall, things were up for grabs and the euro folks grabbed em. How they did it and why might well be wrong, but I think it was par for the course back in the day.