Fred Reed – The Unz Review Jan 2, 2020
As part of wokedom’s fantasy-ridden fascination with indigenes, sports teams, such as the Redskins and Braves, race to change names. (For Washington’s team, the Federal Folders has been suggested.) Outraged conservatives see the changes as nauseating prissiness by historically illiterate ninnies. It is every bit of this. Still, the teams should be renamed. What civilized nation would name teams after murderous, torturing stone-age savages? Which the Indians were.
Yes, I know. Quite. Today one shouldn’t refer to torturing stone-age savages as torturing stone-age savages. No, the Indians were contemplative, spiritual beings at one with nature, living simply and nobly, like a pudding of Buddha and Henry David Thoreau.
I recommend to those imbrued with this dreamy understanding of Native Americans a couple of books, Over the Earth I Come, by Duane Schultz, a history of the entirety of the Sioux uprising in Minnesota of 1862, and Dakota Dawn, by Gregory Michno, of the first week. These recount the deaths of some 800 settlers, almost entirely civilians, at the hands of the noble, contemplative Sioux. It was not a rebellion against Federal troops of men, but butchery of families, usually defenseless. War parties went from farm to farm, killing men, women, and children.
In one act of contemplation, they nailed children to a door and slowly vivisected them to death in front of their parents, who themselves were then tortured to death. Teenage girls were staked to the ground, raped by a dozen or two of braves, then hacked to death.
Tidbits: Children deliberately burned alive in flaming cabins. Children shot, quickly if they were lucky, otherwise left to die in agony. Whole families tomahawked in their cabins, girls taken prisoner for later amusement.
These things actually happened, over and over, not as isolated incidents. The descriptions are from original accounts by those who were there. If you think I am inventing, or exaggerating, read either of the books mentioned above. The links go to Amazon. Both are by historians, not by lying heartless racist conservative Trump-loving just-like-Hitler and so on. Both comport closely with many accounts I have read by men (usually) captured or even raised by Indian tribes. These spiritual beings were of the Stone Age by literal definition and were most assuredly savages by any definition.
If the events in these books are judged inadequate, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, by Thomas Goodrich, provides accounts of similar grotesque torture by Western Indians. For example, a cavalry unit found a man who had been staked to the ground, disemboweled, and later burned to death.
Why the grotesque torture? Because the Indians enjoyed it. They took prisoners for the specific purpose, making village celebrations of the procedure. American soldiers took seriously the admonition, “Save your last bullet for yourself.” Gunga Din all over again.
Torture as amusement was not restricted to a few tribes. The Iroquois were famous for gruesome technique, being artists of the genre. Captured by the Indians, by Herman Lehmann consisting of fifteen accounts by captives, provides many examples.
Why did the natives erupt in Minnesota and on the plains? Easy. Because the settlers followed the policy usual across the continent of lying to the Indians, breaking treaties, pushing them out of the best land, killing off the buffalo on which they depended and sometimes massacring whole villages. The whites placed avaricious and incompetent officials over them, forced them onto reservations, and allowed corrupt traders to exploit them mercilessly. Ask and ye shall receive, says an old book. Whether this justifies disemboweling a pregnant woman and nailing her almost-infant to a tree—this was done—may be argued. It happened.
Contrary to Kevin Costner’s “Dances with Wolves,” the Sioux tribe was feared by even other savage Indian tribes. Minnesota tried hanging most of them, but Abraham Lincoln would only allow Minnesota to hang 38.
Another book of contemplation and oneness with nature is the Thomas Goodrich book, including first-hand accounts of Custer’s error in judgement. The Indians acted like…Indians. I won’t multiply horrifying examples.
Nobody doubted that the plains Indians were superb warriors, the best horsemen on the continent. They were not stupid. They were loyal to their tribes and sometimes enrolled captive whites into their tribes as equals. Yet east and west they were unspeakably cruel, for example tying prisoners naked to poles and keeping them alive for hours while burning the with flaming branches.
Women’s rights? In many tribes, perhaps all, they were treated almost as slaves, doing the physical work of the villages. Captured white women were beaten and passed among the braves as sexual toys, sometimes being pregnant when released in one way or another. An Indian woman caught in adultery might have her nose cut off while the man suffered no penalty.
All of this is well, multitudinously, and voluminously documented. Again, it would be easy to sicken the reader with example after example.
All of the foregoing is written to illustrate the absurdity of painting the Indians as woodland philosophers and oppressed innocents. Oppressed, yes, innocents, no. The whites often behaved as savagely as the Indians, suggesting we should rename the Cowboys and Forty-Niners. Anyone doubting this might read of the Sand Creek Massacre in which American soldiers attacked a village that had been promised peace, killing men, women, and children. For example, using a toddler for target practice. The link is to a Wikipedia entry and, while long is worth reading if you believe the Disney fantasy of brave, honest settlers bringing principle and Christian morality to an exceptional new nation. There were plenty of massacres by whites, including by later-President Jackson.
Sand Creek bits and pieces:
“I saw the bodies of those lying there cut all to pieces, worse mutilated than any I ever saw before; the women cut all to pieces … With knives; scalped; their brains knocked out; children two or three months old; all ages lying there, from sucking infants up to warriors … By whom were they mutilated? By the United States troops ..”
— John S. Smith, Congressional Testimony of Mr. John S. Smith, 1865
“Fingers and ears were cut off the bodies for the jewelry they carried. The body of White Antelope, lying solitarily in the creek bed, was a prime target. Besides scalping him the soldiers cut off his nose, ears, and testicles-the last for a tobacco pouch ….”
“Before Chivington and his men left the area, they plundered the teepees and took the horses. After the smoke cleared, Chivington’s men came back and killed many of the wounded. They also scalped many of the dead, regardless of whether they were women, children or infants. Chivington and his men dressed their weapons, hats and gear with scalps and other body parts, including human fetuses and male and female genitalia.”
The impenetrably woke and the hyperpatriotic will insist respectively that these things didn’t happen, and that anyway they were isolated incidents. But they did, and weren’t. Few things die harder than illusion.
Or something bad may happen to you. I have friends in the garment district.
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Well thats what happens when you invade their lands. Their biggest mistake was first to welcome the europeans to their lands that they shared with nature. “White man make many promises , he kept only one, to take our lands”
So, what’s the moral of this story?
I have my own conclusion, but I get the feeling that it would not coincide with that of the author of this article…
This is an EXCELLENT article.
There is nothing wrong with the Truth, everything wrong with making up, promoting and enforcing lies in order to destroy your own Race, Religion and Culture.
I don’t mind reading about atrocities and treacheries committed by Persons of Pallor at all, as long as it is given no more or less prominence than context requires.
Truth is MUCH more important than opinion.
Nobody’s ‘opinions’ are worth the keyboard they type them on if they are governed, as most peoples’ are, in the post-Education Age, by emotion over the only thing that really matters in these things- the primacy of Truth.
The Native Canadian actor Chief Dan George (he was the old boy who played Lone Watie beside Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josie Wales) said, “When the white men came they had the bible and we had the land. Now we’ve got the bible and they’ve got the land.”
Leftists are nuts, always saying “their land” where foreigners are concerned but freely offering White territory to anyone who can float in, as if Europe was never ours. We lost ours to fake Israelites, by the way, in the same way that the Indians and then the Whites lost theirs in America. It is just that Whites have been taught that they own no land as a people. Israel would be Christians if the foreign Priesthood had not written Leviticus, and then they would not have needed Satanism to keep their sibling rivalry alive. During the supposed lockdowns of 2020, four times more turds floated in to Britain than in 2019. The BBC gave that a good five seconds of attention. I will explain about Satanism and the Jews later, as it is complicated.
Fred Reed is a race baiter of the lowest type. Why he is published by thetruthseeker I couldn’t say.
Notice when whites migrate to new lands, the anti-white liberal/communist scum term them ‘invaders’ or ‘colonists’, but when nonwhites do it, they call them ‘immigrants’ or ‘refugees’.
The American aborigines should be thanking the white man for ‘stealing their land’. If it wasn’t for superior Caucasian created civilization & beneficial technology (electricity, automobiles, TV, telephone etc) the Indian would still be existing & stagnating in some primitive Neolithic society. So instead of blaming the white man for conquering their land (land belongs to whoever conquers it, whether by force or cunning) they should be grateful for Caucasians migrating to North America & concomitantly raising them to a better material existence.
When Jews & Communists repeat to the white gentiles, that whites stole the savages land, they’re conditioning them, through neuro-emotive linguistic programming (guilt) to submit to the power of Jews/nonwhites, which is pernicious propaganda, since all races with natural healthy instincts are conquering, dominating races…
There is only one way to deal with communists, because they weaponize everything, leaving you only that out.
There is plenty of evidence that many of the American Indian tribes are descended from Chinese settlers.
I can’t remember lots of details and haven’t looked into it much. But one of the tribes had a straight out Chinese dialect. Throughout North and South America there is ancient Chinese influence.
China was an advanced society. So I wonder if rather than backward stone age savages they were people who lost some of their civilities. And were they all bad??
As Fred Reed implies,cruelty and savageness is capability we all possess. White, Jew, Black, Polynesians you name it we got it and each race has been there.
When Whites came to America, it was a blessing!
They brought theWord of God.
What people did with that, or after that, is quite another thing.
The “Noble Savage”… everyone should try and get a copy of Englishman Samuel Hearne’s journal of explorations to locate the Coppermine River 1769 – 73, and read just how “noble” the Amerindians were.
That will clear up the propaganda of the “evil” white man. And we only have that knowledge, because thankfully, Hearne was the only one who could write about that exploration, the Amerindians had no written language of course. One last thing, when non-whites, lately arrived in North America, complain about whites(settlers), occupying lands, simply ask them, “then what are you doing here ?”
white men are savages in suits
no such thing as civilisation
It is hard to remember all the lessons of Jesus e.g. he separates even people within the same household and so racial cohesion will be miles away from possibility.
@ Nico X,
Correct me if i’m wrong, you are blatantly saying that it’s okay to kill, murder and commit genocide on millions men, women and little pure innocent babies from 1492 for at least 300 yrs, and then invent the TV, phones etc almost 500yrs later as compensation ?
wow ! there are indeed some sick minds walking the face of the earth. Hitler ain’t got nothing on you.
And please do show the appreciation letter from the Native Indians collectively thanking White people for killing them from Canada via the USA to the Falklands and also their thank you letter for these technologies you gave them.
Try to maintain perspective and use historically accurate references when discussing our history. Hernan Cortez was a slaver and a privateer but he was required to submit a healthy commission and full report to the King and Queen of Spain in order to guarantee their support for his adventures. These letters have survived and are archived for current historians access. Cortez was successful in subjugating Meso-America with his rag tag army of mercenaries with the help of his wife/consort known as Dona Marina (in Mexico Malinche), whom he purchased as a sex slave from Mayans. A native Azteca, she turned out to be an excellent linguist of local dialects and quickly mastered Spanish becoming Cortez interpreter. She also happened to be a member of one of the opposing tribes of Moctezuma, the Emperor of Mexico at the time. Once Cortez became appraised of the significant resources of their civilization he was also made aware of their religious practices which included human sacrifice and other practices aberrant to normal Christian sensibilities. The Aztecs were every bit as misogynistic as their Castilian counterparts and it seems that Dona Marina became enamored enough with Cortez to participate with him, along with her tribal cohorts, in the total destruction and liquidation of the Aztec Empire. The details, along with the rest of the story on both sides, is available for historical verification. Of course the moral of the story being, once again…..
Too complicated for superficial aggrandizement.
@jason…I don’t know who you are, probably some Christian or your typical mentally sick anti-white liberal-communist freak…Nonetheless, when the whites migrated to North America, they were met with many violent attacks from the American aborigines. Thus one will have to fight violence with violence.
Just go ask a group of Indians if they’d rather live with electricity or not. Most, if not all of them, will affirm they want electricity. Thus proving me correct, & you wrong.
to R2b
there were indeed no blessing in spreading the teachings of that jewish
genocidal demon JHVH with his doubtful constructed son by katholic
dogmatism. all native tribes had their culture and innocence without
implementation of guild through christianism . shurely there were also
most agresive tribes decimating peaceful tribes . we seen it specialy last
150 years in africa . bringing the bible is throwing out the devil with
baalzebub !
well bugger me, I don’t recall seeing any indians when I was in the Falklands must have been disguised as sheep or something but if jason says they were there they must have been. Some of the Argies looked a bit suspect but can’t say I saw them scalp anyone though. Oh well you learn something new every day, as they say.
@ Nico,
Your reply is evasive, electricity is good on the surface (emphasis, ‘on the surface’). now tell me if you have conducted a survey among the Indians titled ‘Electricity, phones and TV for the Genocide of millions of your people and land’.
when you do, please furnish me and the world with your answers, because childish supremacist conjecture and suppositions won’t suffice here.