(November 2, 2015 at 9:23 am)ChadWooters Wrote: If those other counties had had the means they'd have done the same or worse to the West. No one is innocent. Many of those cultures were brutalizing each other long before Europeans came along. The Sioux fought the Cherakee. The Navaho fought the Apatche. Winners aren't always bad and losers aren't all saints.
The Sioux didn't fight the Cherokee. The Sioux were a northern Plains grouping of tribes which ranged from Alberta and Manitoba in Canada to Nebraska and Minnesota in the US. The Cherokee, on the other hand, were a Southeastern tribe (in fact, the largest in that area) living as far east as the Carolinas and as far west as Mississippi, but they didn't see the Plains until the US government force-marched them into Oklahoma.
Your point, that the tribes fought each other, is mundane. Of course they did, and no one is saying they didn't. But there's a difference between fighting a war and perpetrating colonialism, especially at the expense of another society. You're right, there's good and bad in every society and culture. But you should at least get your facts straight in supporting your point.
