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.
Hanging out on the Rez mostly. Utes were never very populous, being trading based nomadic hunting-gatherers in small tribal groups unlike the relatively very numerous Navaho.
Serious ten gallon hats action. Serious men. They need a brace of Winchesters. Be a righteous photo. I mean any serious Indian, like Geronimo, be holding their trusty beloved lever gun. Like the man said, "We never should have given up our guns."
smallpox, pneumonia, measles, etc plus western mil-tech-culture. they saw war as a single battle - we saw war as eradication of the enemy w/ sustained logistics. It was the usual slaughter of stone age vs industrial revolution.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder what they were doing 15 years earlier?
ReplyDeleteHanging out on the Rez mostly. Utes were never very populous, being trading based nomadic hunting-gatherers in small tribal groups unlike the relatively very numerous Navaho.
DeleteSerious ten gallon hats action. Serious men. They need a brace of Winchesters. Be a righteous photo. I mean any serious Indian, like Geronimo, be holding their trusty beloved lever gun. Like the man said, "We never should have given up our guns."
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing wreaks of 'cultural appropriation'.
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How in the Hell did we defeat such folks !?!
ReplyDeletesmallpox, pneumonia, measles, etc plus western mil-tech-culture.
Deletethey saw war as a single battle - we saw war as eradication of the enemy w/ sustained logistics. It was the usual slaughter of stone age vs industrial revolution.
What's a ute?
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DeleteWe did this
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