Give it up!
Indians were not saints and engaged in slaughter just as the whites did. This is not news.
The BIG problems was that whites were in the millions and spreading like locust in the last half of the 1800s. No amount of nuance will change that fact. The bison had to go so ranchers and farmers could industrialize agriculture in the western US. The Bison disappeared because of European settlement. Full stop.This does not make Europeans bad. Our ancestors were not evil because of it. It is what it is. ALL GAME IN THE WEST DECLINED because of European settlement.
Same story with the timber harvests in the east. Wasted billions of board feet of priceless timber. Our ancestors raped the North American continent. That is a fact.
Good article OP and good post Hat. That’s about how I see it too.
