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Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 10:56 am EDT 10/29/15
In reply to:	Cut-your-throat-able - reed23 05:37 pm EDT 10/28/15

"The politically-correct don't have their history down any more than the purveyors of the old stereotype. A lot of people were killing a lot of people for all kinds of reasons throughout North American history from the fifteenth century on (and presumably well before.) Native Americans made different alliances with different American settlers for different goals." I'm sure that's true, and yes, I know THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. What I'm saying is that the entire center section of the song "Colonel Buffalo Bill" is about a peaceful, innocent party of presumably white people in a stagecoach set upon by "very notable, cut-your-throatable" Indians, who then "take everyone by force." I realize it's just a song, and that it's the kind of reference to Native Americans that was heard frequently back then. But today, it's hard to take by those who understand that the Europeans basically stole this country from the natives and destroyed their culture. I'm sure there were some venal, mercenary, evil Native Americans, but that doesn't change the main plot line of the history. That's all I'm saying.

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