Went to bed early. No I was speaking in general most liberal teaching of American expansion has a racist slant. “The white man” Im not defending the near extinction of buffalo or of Native Americans. Our government has made a lot of mistakes along the way some horrendous but I refuse to be made to feel guilty about them. I recommend reading “Bury my heart at wounded knee” for a good perspective of the demise of the American Indian.
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I try to enjoy it but they still blame the white man for everything. Also notice how they always que the flute music when their talking about Indians, excuse me Native Americans. Comanche chief Quanah Parker was a bad ass a half breed as they say but a master of guerrilla tactics.
So are you saying that white Americans weren’t heavily responsible for the decimation and near extinction of the American Buffalo heard?
Didn't a white man also save them !?
Wouldn't say that they saved them. Just turned them into glorified cattle to keep them from being extinct.
There’s a little problem had bison not been hunted to near extinction. That problem is there wouldn’t have been the agricultural boom in the Midwest with millions of them still free ranging. Wouldn’t have been much fun to spend virtually everything you have to buy land, fence it, plow it up, plant, then have a herd drive through tearing the fencing down before completely destroying your investment. Not many farmers would make that mistake more than once. Right now the amount of free ranging bison on this continent is the practical amount it can handle and unfortunately it’s a fraction of what it was.
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