"The Feds versus The Indians" Topic
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Tango01 | 29 Sep 2018 3:27 p.m. PST |
"History books and the popular culture are full of stories about how "the white man" brutally mistreated the American Indians during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Greedy capitalists are usually portrayed as the villains, killing Indians by the thousands to make way for the railroads in particular and economic development of the West in general. But it was neither all white men nor all capitalists who brutalized the American Indians. The dispossession of the Indians—culminating in the late 1880s with the surviving tribes of the West being herded onto reservations—was the result of a corrupt and immoral relationship between certain Northern industrialists, particularly government-subsidized railroads, and the federal politicians whose careers they financed and promoted. The eradication of the Plains Indians by the Union army was an indirect form of corporate welfare for politically connected railroad companies who enlisted the coercive powers of the central state to steal Indian property while engaging in a genocidal policy. Like many citizens today, the Indians were victims of governmental power, not of capitalism or European culture, as today's politically-correct historians insist…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Lee494 | 01 Oct 2018 2:29 p.m. PST |
It's always all about the money! |
Tango01 | 02 Oct 2018 11:49 a.m. PST |
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