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Wow, something like 11% of buried people appear to have been killed violently! I wonder if that was also representative of the common way of dying or just that
by Nutmog 11y ago
Wow, something like 11% of buried people appear to have been killed violently! I wonder if that was also representative of the common way of dying or just that soldiers were more often buried than grandmothers.
Sounds like the Europeans ultimately saved them from themselves. After doing their own bit of violence too of course.
- s986s 11y agoBit is an understandment, saved is disengenuious. The europeans decimated the natives and almost no culture is free from violence within the homeland
- coldtea 11y agoBesides the obvious racism overtone[1], basing an argument for something that happened from 1942 onwards all over the Americas, on some findings about a specific small part of the US, 5000 years ago, is not really scientific... [1] The whites that "saved" them by taking their land, forcing them to "sign" their land off with bloody wars, putting them in concentration camps, and lots of even worse things...