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From: Anna G
Subject: Native Americans & Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:02 PM
http://www.apfn.org/thewinds/1998/03/weapons_of_destruction1.html[snip] "The news media these days continues on in its historic path of
the perversion of information and the facts. The drums of the daily news
still beat the population into a frenzy over some far-off leader who
threatens the world with mass destruction. The ignorant mob rushes off
to save the world for democracy while killing off millions of innocents.
Such is the nature of man and his media....."
[snip] English general Jeffery Amherst, 1763: "Could it not be contrived
to send a smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on
this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them. You will
do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets to try and
extirpate this execrable race." The tribes "inoculated" in this campaign
were the Shawnee, Odawa and the Onondaga tribes. One native remarked
afterwards, "terrible sickness among us, nothing but dead bodies among
us."
[snip] "They are a dissolute, vagabondish, brutal, and ungrateful race
and ought to be wiped from the face of the earth." Rocky Mountain News
editorial March 1863. In that same year out of twenty-seven articles
dealing with Native Americans, twenty called for extermination. The
populace was fully indoctrinated with death towards the Cheyennes and
Arapahos. The Rocky Mountain News reported in August 1864 "go for them,
their lodges, squaws and all." The News inflamed the situation to the
point where men had no conscience for indiscriminate killing.
Looking forward to the Sand Creek massacre, Colonel John Chivington
expressed the thought of many when he said, "Well, I long to be wading
in gore." Chivington headed a 700-man, 5-battalion army who massacred
the Cheyennes and Arapahos at Sand Creek November, 1864. The report
Chivington gave of the senseless slaughter of the Native Americans as
reported in the Rocky Mountain News stated it was, "one of the most
bloody Indian battles ever fought." The News went on to elaborate that,
"Cheyenne scalps are getting as thick here now as toads in Egypt.
Everybody has got one and is anxious to get another to send east." The
battalion didn't meet with much resistance.
One chief, Black Kettle, flew an American flag in front of his tepee,
assuring his tribe of safety. Previously, the tribe had willingly
disarmed themselves as a gesture of non-hostility. They only kept those
weapons essential for hunting. When Black Kettle saw the firing begin,
he raised a white flag on the same pole as the American flag and told
his people to gather under the flags. Of the 600 tribal members present
only 35 were estimated to be braves. The other braves had been sent off
to hunt being assured of the protection of Fort Lyon. The rest were old
men, women and children. Only a few escaped alive. Black Kettle's wife
was shot several times but lived.
One senator who visited the horrible scene, walked among carnage more
terrible than words can portray. Soldiers who saw the battle ground the
following days described it in the following language: "All manner of
depredations were inflicted on their persons," "women and children
mutilated in the most horrible manner," "all cut to pieces", "nearly
all, men women and children were scalped," "worse mutilated [sic] than
any I ever saw before." The senator who saw and heard these atrocities
assembled an investigational debate about the slaughter. Chivington, the
Colorado Governor and the general public were invited. During the debate
the question was asked, "Would it be best henceforward, to try to
'civilize' the Indians or simply exterminate them?" "Exterminate them!
Exterminate them!" the crowd roared. Some said the roar was like a
battlefield cry loud enough to raise the Denver Opera House roof. The
congressional committee did nothing.
Almost four years later another congressional committee, composed of
generals from the U.S. Army and other officials met for seventy-two
days. The final report stated: "It scarcely has its parallel in the
records of Indian barbarity -- men, women and infants were tortured and
mutilated in a way which would put to shame the savages of interior
Africa." But the Rocky Mountain News won the day for the bloodthirsty
colonel. Nothing was done to Chivington for the slaughter, that he
termed, "the most bloody Indian battle ever fought." He took his
notoriety on the road as an after-dinner speaker.
Later, Theodore Roosevelt's comment on the Sand Creek massacre was, "a
righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier.".
Another comment of Roosevelt's concerning the Native American plight
was, "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead
Indians, but I believe 9 out of 10 are, and I shouldn't like to inquire
too closely into the case of the tenth.".
Despite congressional evidence to the contrary, the Rocky Mountain News
reports still held the feeling to Roosevelt's day and, as we shall see,
far beyond.....
