> > I read recently that history is the lie that we all agree on. If that is so, let us all agree that what we did to America's Indians, was not as bad as what Germany did to their Jews.
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> Actually, it wasn't. They were rounded up and forced to move, but they weren't slaughtered in concentration camps. They were cheated, but not by everyone. There was war, but most of the Europeans came in peace. Revisionist history would have us think the Europeans all came over as a single-minded international army of war, as if Christopher Columbus sailed over, found some "savages," and decided to get the Spanish and the French and the Brits together and lead a war campaign himself, hundreds of years after his own death. There were a great many motives the Europeans had, a great many groups of Europeans, a great many tribes of Indians, and several hundred years of peace in some places and times, war in others, co-existence in some places and times, prejudice in others, justice in some places and times, injustice in others.
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> Yes, in the course of things, a whole lot of people were done grave injustices. Forcefully moving people out of their homes, on the basis of race, and restricting them to reservations was rephrensible and inexcusable. But let's not equate that with what the Jews endured under Nazi rule. The Indians that were killed died fighting. The Jews were simply executed. By the millions.

Recommended reading on this subject is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
Howard