After discussing our book Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask pages 15-38, it really opened my eyes to how brutal they were to the Indians. I really feel that we should be taught at a younger age of what the settlers from Europe really did to the Indians. If students get taught about the Holocaust in middle school, then they should learn how our nation was started. They should also learn about how excepting the Indians were to the settlers, but the settlers took it as they wanted them to be their ruler.
I really did not like to hear that they would cut of the hand of Indians if they didn’t bring back gold, or would use children as targets to practice shoot. They would feed the Indians to dog, burn them alive. Rape the Indian women, and shun them even though in the Indian culture they were equal to men. They also thought it was okay because they would bless them before or after they were dead. I thought it was different that the settlers thought if they blessed them, they would automatically go to heaven. The settlers should of been punished for the violence they caused.
blengel June 15, 2018
I agree 100% with you Zach. I too think our whole nation could benefit from learning the past of our discovery. Not that America isn’t a great country, but sometimes as a whole we think ourselves above all others. With the knowledge of how our country came to be, we can realize that we too have our faults. As far as the acts of violence they performed, I think it is tragic that they were never held accountable for their actions. Even for back in that time, it seems extremely cruel. It makes you wonder what was going through their mind when they were doing these things. Nowadays, anyone who performed these kinds of actions would be thrown into jail and would be seen as a psycho killer. But instead people have praised him for “finding” America.