And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Paul Pichette and Paul Charley, two men on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stand on a striped blanket near a creek on the reservation. - Boos - 1905-1907
I just started a book detailing the rather extensive history of the "Indian Wars." From almost the first page of the Prelude, it appears that it is going to be a very heart-breaking story.
I just started a Time Life book, The Great Chiefs, that I got off a thrift shop shelf. It too starts off pretty sad with Indian vs Indian and no quarter given. Perhaps a common theme.
Every nation in the history of the world has been born and paid for in the blood of conquest. If you can't or won't defend your country, somebody will take it from you. Call it national original sin. So what. It doesn't matter how your country was formed, it's what you do with it afterwards that matters. And for the losers, those that are still alive, it's a choice between bad and worse: assimilate or revanchism. Life sucks, then you die. So whattayagonnado?
Yes, life certainly can be unfair and even brutal. But sometimes when you look back and consider HOW and WHY they died, that is often the sad part. And that we should try to learn something from the mistakes of others.
I just started a book detailing the rather extensive history of the "Indian Wars." From almost the first page of the Prelude, it appears that it is going to be a very heart-breaking story.
ReplyDeleteJohn, are you also detailing the tribal wars between the various tribes across the American west?
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Both the tribes conducting non-stop warfare on themselves and the White Man decimating them at the end.
DeleteDecimate hell.
Deletethey were nearly wiped out.
I just started a Time Life book, The Great Chiefs, that I got off a thrift shop shelf. It too starts off pretty sad with Indian vs Indian and no quarter given. Perhaps a common theme.
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ReplyDeleteEvery nation in the history of the world has been born and paid for in the blood of conquest. If you can't or won't defend your country, somebody will take it from you. Call it national original sin. So what. It doesn't matter how your country was formed, it's what you do with it afterwards that matters. And for the losers, those that are still alive, it's a choice between bad and worse: assimilate or revanchism. Life sucks, then you die. So whattayagonnado?
ReplyDeleteYes, life certainly can be unfair and even brutal. But sometimes when you look back and consider HOW and WHY they died, that is often the sad part.
DeleteAnd that we should try to learn something from the mistakes of others.
Here's a different spin on it...
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