…of this land has been horribly twisted to put white European settlers as some sort of heroes, when the truth is far from that.
From Indian Country, exploring the Native American side of that history. Contrary to belief, this land was not a “wilderness”, but a carefully cultivated eco-system that worked, amazingly, for 10,000+ years…and it took the Europeans only a few hundred years to trash the place…
There are several links at the bottom of the story. I don’t have time to click on all of them, but did this one. When I told my son about the smallpox infested blankets, he didn’t believe me. He couldn’t imagine someone being so evil. Bio-warfare, like drones, is a coward’s way to win at war–“if we can’t win by our physical and mental stamina, we’ll cheat and introduce a disease that will knock them out…” Sickening.