zippetydude wrote: That, incidentally, is the only reason the white people took the land from the native americans. The bravery and sheer audacity of the natives would have easily lead to their victory had they had a unified front and a real vision of the full campaign against them.
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I know this is off topic but there's no way the Natives could have formed a unified front to fend off the American move West anymore than all the Europeans nations of the period could get together. They were mortal enemies with different languages, customs, history and traditions. Indians were not one unified group. I think the Americans used that against them.
And I don't think they were more brave than anyone else—more savage, perhaps—but gained the reputation of fighting valiantly to the death because, unlike Americans and Europeans, they treated captors ruthlessly, torturing, burning, dismembering and raping anyone captured alive. Indians would not be captured alive because they knew what was coming and because of that gained a reputation as fierce fighters.
And I don't even want to get into them getting "their" land back. The BLM land grab is the only thing that comes to mind in this respect.