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(this ain't exactly a thread-hijack....as someone else brought up this Indian-killing stuff)
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Oh sure, there are plenty of historical accounts of that happening --- Indian torture and mutilation.
Also plenty of historical accounts of white folks mutilating Indians, and whites.
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ps...if you want a really good read on that merde', pick up Duncan's book ' Hernando De Soto A Savage Quest in the Americas'.
De Soto's entrada into Florida and the southeast quadrant of America in the late 1530's......takes 'savagery' to a pretty disgusting level.
De Soto was a monster. As were many of his contemporaries in the period of the 'entrada'.
It always surprised me (after I read the 'DeSoto Chronicles') that there were southern communities proudly erecting statues to this murderous bloke. They were proclaiming with these statues and parades that he was a white guy bringing "Christianity" to the aborigines.
All the while, blithely ignoring the piles of hands and arms he had his men cut off Indians who didn't give him food or women.
Also, blithely ignoring the raping ---by the hundreds, perhaps thousands ---of aboriginal women.
Thankfully, Christianist now practice a flavor of that religion that is a bit more gentle than DeSoto's version.
So there is that.