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Wasn't it the naive Americans that killed all the native Americans? One letter missing, and the country changed so much.
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How naive can this get?
Just to rebut all the history rewriters, Americans didn't wipe out the innocent native Americans, the VAST majority of the people who committed wholesale killing on any "Indians" they ran across were native Europeans... Swedes, Germans, Irish, English, Italians, etc.; people came to the New World looking for land and a fairly interference-free life, arrived in the middle of thousands of miles of unoccupied land and built homes and began farming.
Nomadic tribes who wandered thru the area when it suited them, found and killed, tortured, and robbed anyone they found unprotected enough to get to. This was their lifestyle, by and large. Many raiding parties wandered until they found a source of booty and fun, did what they wanted and went home, eventually. No one's territory was was a factor to a raiding party.
So, people saw any "Indians " as a threat...so would I, and anyone else who lost the means to survive from theft or destruction of food crops, or lost a wife, children, and friends to torture and casual slaughter.
Not that many tribes and settlers didn't co-exist peacefully...just what happened miles away affected the "whites" anywhere they settlrd in. Eventually, conflicts with different tribes became a big threat to all settlers, and for various reasons the conflict took on a countrywide inclusion.
Most tribes took their teritory from other smaller or weaker tribes, and killed, tortured, and enslaved their adversaries. A common lifestyle among the nomadic North American tribes. Some exceptions, of course.
There are still many Native Americans alive and well today, disease and warfare did not eradicate all the tribes, nowhere near.
And we Americans did indeed settle here, in the US, but we were not Americans until later, much as the German and Dutch settlers in Africa (and there the populations were purposely eradicated to clear the area for imigrants). There were precious few actual Americans in our early history.
Please spare us all the simple-minded blanket rewriting of history that seems to serve some people's need to sneer at others and claim a higher plane of existance for themselves.