Post by rayancaleb on Jan 5, 2018 1:19:41 GMT -5
Hi,
I don't think anyone really seriously holds that stereotype to be true. I think the major message people generally try to convey is that the Native Americans didn't deserve to be subject to mass murder and genocide by the Europeans, mostly because there is literally no justification whatsoever for mass murder and genocide. None. At all. No, not even whatever it is you just tried to think of as a counter-argument.Europeans wanted furs, beaver furs. Natives hunted them and traded for guns. Beavers started to become rare, so natives started to murder each others over rights to hunt beavers.
There are also constant low-level warfare between Iroquois and their neighbors, Algonquian. Algonquian were agricultural civilization, which allowed them to match Iroquois numbers and keep them in check. Of course... during the Beaver Wars, "I have more guns" doctrine won out.
Also, Iroquois Confederacy member tribes used to regularly beat the nuts out of each others, until five of them agreed to form an unified government.
Now, we don't have detailed descriptions like with Asian or European societies, like with African societies. Because these societies didn't have (widespread) writing system, most of this information was passed down orally, which naturally tends to be lost over time. Not to mention when one tribe beats the nuts out of other tribe, the other tribe tends to lose all their history, so only the winning tribes history tends to be remembered.
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I don't think anyone really seriously holds that stereotype to be true. I think the major message people generally try to convey is that the Native Americans didn't deserve to be subject to mass murder and genocide by the Europeans, mostly because there is literally no justification whatsoever for mass murder and genocide. None. At all. No, not even whatever it is you just tried to think of as a counter-argument.Europeans wanted furs, beaver furs. Natives hunted them and traded for guns. Beavers started to become rare, so natives started to murder each others over rights to hunt beavers.
There are also constant low-level warfare between Iroquois and their neighbors, Algonquian. Algonquian were agricultural civilization, which allowed them to match Iroquois numbers and keep them in check. Of course... during the Beaver Wars, "I have more guns" doctrine won out.
Also, Iroquois Confederacy member tribes used to regularly beat the nuts out of each others, until five of them agreed to form an unified government.
Now, we don't have detailed descriptions like with Asian or European societies, like with African societies. Because these societies didn't have (widespread) writing system, most of this information was passed down orally, which naturally tends to be lost over time. Not to mention when one tribe beats the nuts out of other tribe, the other tribe tends to lose all their history, so only the winning tribes history tends to be remembered.
Thanks!
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