College boy. Product of the revisionist historian era, no doubt. They indians are LUCKY they were conquered by us?? Spoken like a true believer in Manifest Destiny. Or Darwinism at the very least. Survival of the fittest.

The Japanese used the same rationale to legitimize their WWII campains in the Pacific. I wonder.... If the Germans had finished their work on the atomic bomb before we did and Nazism spread across the world; if they constantly told us how inferior and backward we were before they arrived to help us; how many of us would consider ourselves lucky to have been conquered by such a technologically advanced people?

All a matter of perspective, don'tcha know. History is written by the victors.

As a person of mixed blood, I don't harbor any romaticized, idealist notions about the lives of my Native American ancestors. I don't harbor any romanticized, idealist notions about the lives - or motivations - of my white ancestors either. The truth is never pretty.