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I thought the indians did teach colonists how to grow crops like corn and often shared food with them. But then large amounts of Indians would die from a plague every time the colonists visited (disease moment), and then they became suspicious that they were purposefully killing them. And then the colonists grew suspicious that the Indians were planning on killing them and then they all killed each other. Except the colonists had guns and so they won.
This is a revisionist lie taught in American schools as genocide denial, there was no unhappy accident that led to an "unfortunate misunderstanding" between the natives and the settlers, the settlers understood from the moment they landed that this was someone else's country and their only possible route of expansion was to remove these people
long extract from the first chapter of Settlers
Plus hundreds of treaties saying "OK we gonna occupy only up to this line but no more pinky promise, just stop raiding us and we'll all get along in peace UwU" that were systematically broken by the same crakkkers that imposed them in order to stiffle the natives from full on war
Reminds me of something messed up I once read where native Americans who had tentatively been 'accepted', who chose to try and live like crakkkers and even fought other native Americans and were given some place to live ended up finding the acceptance they thought they'd achieved disregarded by crakkker settlers eventually and hunted down and murdered, the supposed protection they were promised nothing more than empty promises.
That's what you get for being a Malinche
Uh, no it isn't a lie. The effects of novel diseases brought into the U.S. has been studied and... I can't believe I'm writing this, proven. It literally changed native American immune systems, and actually made them worse. As in, they were well adapted to the diseases of their land and became worse as more people died. The reason for this is still unknown.
Like yeah, native Americans were also killed by settlers. But this dumbass narrative you're supporting suggesting settlers were "shocktroops" is actually fucking hilarious. Something like 90% of the native American population died from diseases. The rest, unfortunately, were outnumbered by racists.
LMAO,
No, the settlers had always have genocide in their mind because they craved the "free real state" and slaves that comes with massacring societies.
Again: The Crusades stopped when Europe discovered America and so had an easier place were to do expansion/ocuppation/imperialism
whew
You should really read the diaries and historical accounts of the settlers, their thoughts on the native population and their goals for colonization. Get it straight from the source
My cracker ass grandfather on my dads side was saying to my mom "your people are savages" in like... 1998 and that's not some random slur he just decided to make up on his own
Did they ever tell you that the very first ship to travel back from America to Europe had enslaved natives on it?
The natives were chill and their help was the only reason the settlers survived in a lot of cases, but uhh... the same could not be said the other way around.