Explanation: The US has a horrible record with regards to actually upholding its treaty obligations with Native American polities. Especially in the second half of the 19th century, in which treaties rarely lasted a decade before the US broke them or forced the issue with a new war.
What sticks in my mind is always General Sherman’s career after the Civil War. General Sherman, despite doing good work in whipping the slaver scum, was not humanely inclined towards the Native Americans. He was one of the architects, even, of the buffalo exterminations which sought to starve out any Native polity which refused sedentary agriculture on what little reservation land they were left with - so not exactly a paragon of humane behavior.
But even he regularly expressed disgust and disdain for the violence and lawlessness of white settlers towards the Native Americans. Mr. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it” was disgusted - because those white settlers had no notion of respecting any law or treaty that was made, whether made by them or by the Federal government. Certainly not out of a surfeit of sympathy towards Native Americans, but because even by the standards of an unjust time, the behavior of white settlers on the frontier was deeply fucking unjust and arbitrary.
Coworkers said she committed treason and should be executed for this.
When asked about literally trying to overthrow the government when Dementia Donnie lost, that was somehow NOT treason and also somehow democrats doing a false flag, and also antifa did it, and also those people are heroes for NOT being there NOT trying to do anything and NOT actively hanging their previously elected VP in effigy.
It’s one of those things that seems merely ‘ordinarily’ ugly until you see it in the context of the surrounding landscape, and then you realize that, in addition to being an intentional offense against the Sioux, it’s fucking hideous
Huh, I’ve never actually seen it like that before, looks pretty dumb when you see the surroundings with it.
Holy shit, I never knew it’s that bad.
They couldn’t even clean up the tailing pile. Disgusting
I will say it once under anonymity. I am not American, it took me way too long to find out Mt Rushmore exists. For the longest time I thought it was a painting or something, not real!
It’s one of those things you’ve always known of, but feels surreal when at some point you actually think about it. Happened to me too.
Texas history in a nutshell.
Sam Houston = lets be friends and at least fucking try
Mirabeau b lamar = LETS KILL EM AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE YEEEEHAH
The white settlers turned out to be untrustworthy, duplicitous shits? Shocked pikachu face.
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