| If you give it a little thought and wander back to the early days on the plains and prairies of America, it's plain to see that the origins of the country were based on total control.
The white man {The majority of us reading these pages are probably in that category} was similar to a gigantic Tsunami careering across the plains, mountains, valley's deserts, woods and anything that stood in it's way.
Nothing at all was going to be spared the wrath of this powerful and 'righteous force'
Philip Sheridan {a hero} is well credited by Ralph Andrist with the original remark
about a 'Good Indian'
It was at Fort Cobb, {Indian Territory} a Comanche named Turtle Dove introduced himself to General Sheridan with the humble self attribution that he really was a 'Good Indian'
"The only Good Indians I know" Sheridan retorted, "Are dead!."
Americans have and always will pride themselves on being able to achieve anything to which they dedicate themselves, and the extension of 'White Rule' across the length of the continent represented such a communal dedication.
Nothing was going to be a barrier to them, be it men, women, children, ponies, bison, grass or the very land itself would be permitted to check the Tsunami like operation. If any of the clean up operations appeared bloody it was simply classed as part of the inevitable hardship of making the continent. The whites proved far more apt in being able to bear the difficulties than the Indians.
The whites showed far more ingenuity in their killing and mutilating than the Indians who they incidentally classified as 'savages'
As an example no Indian would have even thought of the actions of of certain white residents in Montana, who cut the heads off murdered Indians, pickled the ears in whiskey, boiled the skin from the skulls and then inscribed the bleached bones with witticisms as 'I am on the reservation, at last'
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All the women take their blouses off
And the men all dance on the polka dots
It's closing time ! |