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Sure, I appreciate the recommendation. I’ve actually read a decent bit on the subject and having been born on an Indian Reservation and lived next door to them
by ethanbond 3y ago
Sure, I appreciate the recommendation. I’ve actually read a decent bit on the subject and having been born on an Indian Reservation and lived next door to them my entire adolescence (the impoverished kind, not the casinos-near-major-cities kind), participated in crown dances, etc it’s not all that alien to me.
Does this book explain how stealing children and sending them to boarding schools to be tortured, raped, murdered, and buried in unmarked mass graves is “not extermination” and is “an attempt to confine them” to the literal shittiest plots of land that settlers could locate on the continent?
- WalterBright 3y agoI wouldn't want to spoil things for you! The Comanche were a lot like the Vikings. They were empire builders like the Vikings, and you wouldn't want to be their neighbor any more than you'd want to be a neighbor to the Vikings. It's a great epic, and I don't know why somebody hasn't created an epic series about them. There have been a couple pathetic westerns about the Comanche, which are best ignored. Check out the book. You won't be disappointed!
- dragonwriter 3y ago> I wouldn’t want to spoil things for you! The Comanche were a lot like the Vikings. A myth based on mistaking an activity for an ethnicity?
- WalterBright 3y ago???
- dragonwriter 3y agoViking is a job title, not a people.
- llamaimperative 3y agoI don’t really understand the implicit argument you’re making here, could you just state it explicitly? Is it that the Comanche were bad and therefore genocidal campaigns against them (and all other native tribes) were justified or somehow non-genocidal?