• Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    The idea that we were warmongers was made up to justify stealing our land. Who was it that welcomed the colonists with open arms until they spat in our ancestor’s faces? Our stories talk about war parties going out and coming back home with zero blood shed. What conflicts we did have were extremely low intensity, we didn’t have the numbers for the horrific wars like the ones waged against us by the colonists.

    Many of the tribes were nomadic, we didn’t have oil reserves to war over. We had hunting grounds and fishing spots and art, and just about everyone agreed that these things weren’t worth dying for.

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      11 months ago

      I’m not saying that indigenous Americans were warmongers, but the idea that there was no blood shed frankly strains credulity. I don’t put much stock in oral tradition that claims a continent of war with no blood shed.