Happy "Indigenous Peoples' Day"!!!
This sort of propaganda needs to stop. Casting a net over Native history and painting them all as inferior savages is deceitful and arrogant. Especially coming from a peoples who's continent inherited the same fate for centuries if not millennia under the Vatican - and is now facing it again under Islamification. You don't know how Natives lived hundreds of years before the settlers came so stop pretending to.
Then don't cast a net over anyone.
This isn't painting them as inferior, this is painting them with the same brush we paint ourselves, as humans.
Everyone has waged war for land, for resources, for women, for ideology and faith, it's a very human thing to do, and painting American natives as uniquely not like that is making them out to be very inhuman.
We do know how they lived, we have archeological evidence of warfare, first hand accounts of barbaric acts performed by natives, ranging from South America to the far north.
You adhere to propaganda, the noble savage myth, I implore you to stop pretending native aren't human, they are entirely capable of the violence every human in history was capable of, and committed.
You are attempting to validate all the atrocities of humanity as "just human nature", in a single breath to try and justify the worst in humanity (rape, murder, etc.) Then further extending that case to accuse the victims as "well they did it too", which, let's be honest, is nothing more than a reach to make you feel better about it.
The only evidence you have are assumptions based on bias and claims made based on whatever someone found buried in the ground. The only exceptions are the Aztecs down south and perhaps the Anasazi, whom were just creating problems for the rest of the people living on this continent.
Correct, look throughout human history, every single race and ethnicity has committed atrocities, fought for land, resources, killed, raped, plundered, conquered, even the natives of the Americas.
There are no people in history that didn't do this, that didn't act as humans do, as territorial apes who loathe each other.
Long-held perceptions of pre-Columbian Native Americans as peaceful have been challenged by archaeological, osteological, and iconographical evidence showing that warfare was widespread.
Evidence of pre-European warfare in the Americas includes skeletal remains with trauma, the destruction of settlements, and defensive structures like fortifications.
Ancient peoples in the Americas fought for control over resources, to legitimize rulers, and for ritual purposes long before Europeans arrived.
For example, mass graves at the Crow Creek archaeological site contain the remains of hundreds of people killed in a pre-Columbian attack, and sites in the American Southwest show evidence of violent destruction, including the burned Sand Canyon Pueblo.
The Crow Creek site in South Dakota contains a mass grave with over 500 individuals, brutally killed, scalped, and mutilated around 1325 AD, well before European contact.
Many prehistoric settlements show signs of being deliberately burned, a common consequence of warfare.
At Sand Canyon Pueblo in Colorado, a large pueblo was almost entirely burned, and artifacts within the rooms were smashed, with bodies left on the floors.
The practice of using human scalps as trophies is well-documented among many pre-Columbian peoples.
Some large confederacies, like the Muscogee, formed to stand against larger tribes, suggesting frequent conflict between groups.
The northern Southwest experienced extreme violence in the late 1200s, an era when the region's population of about 40'000 people vanished over 30 years.
Nearly 90% of human remains from this period show signs of trauma, such as blows to the head or arms.
At the Sacred Ridge site in Colorado, archaeologists found evidence of a massacre around 800 A.D., which some have interpreted as an ethnic cleansing event.
Victims were tortured, dismembered, and disemboweled, with their heads, hands, and feet possibly taken as trophies.
Cannibalism may also have been practiced in the ancient Southwest, as evidenced by human tissue remains found in preserved human waste.
At the major Mississippian city of Cahokia, near modern-day St. Louis, sacrificial burials in Mound 72 reveal organized ritual violence dating back to at least 1030 A.D.
Other Cahokian burials show that warriors sacrificed noncombatants, including women and children.
Early Canadian Iroquoian societies built increasingly elaborate, multi-layered log fortifications, indicating that sieges and assaults were a concern before European contact.
Some of the great confederacies, such as the Iroquois Confederacy, may have formed to stem centuries of internecine warfare.
Early hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert, known as the Chinchorro culture, show evidence of persistent interpersonal violence between 10'000 and 4000 years ago.
Archaeological analysis of mummies revealed that male individuals had suffered high rates of head trauma and unhealed injuries from weapons like spears and slings.
We have decades of research, and thousands of years of evidence, you have nothing but a common myth, the noble savage myth.
See, all you've done is listed a bunch of stuff that neither you, nor I, can verify. I could say the same thing about aliens building the pyramids and you would call me a weirdo. Also, I have heard compelling arguments offline that Columbus was not the first man to discover the Americas and that visitation occurred long before that on multiple occasions - probably to harvest resources. So we don't know who to blame in either case.
But that's besides the point. You are ignoring the overall cultural significance of Native Americans while ignoring the fact that this land was "theirs" in the first place, even though they wouldn't call it that because they have more respect and reverence for the Earth apparently than it being some sandbox to harvest resources from and fight petty wars over. Their "faith" is beyond your vision. Which is why you try and lump them in with yours as being barbaric and 'fair game', while dumping a bunch of stats and supposed archeological evidence of their brutality. This is the same thing that gave rise to the Every Child Matters movement which was nothing more than fodder for propagandists to piggy back off of BLM. And now were getting wind that the "mass graves" weren't even real so what are we supposed to believe now?
Yeah, Tribal Citizen here, cannibalism and turf wars were absolutely a thing. There was a tribe my people called the man eaters, who literally went to war just to take victims for cannibalistic ceremonies. Nobody liked those guys, a lot of native scholars believe they were wiped out before the settlers ever arrived. For good reason.
War also existed? Not sure why you think it didn’t. Most tribes had their own territory, and seeing as the common school myth that all natives were nomadic is in fact a myth, shockingly the tribes that weren’t did in fact defend their land. There were over a thousand different tribes before the settlers came over, each one with different culture, language, and morality. So shockingly, those clashed and led to war and fighting and all types of ‘bad behavior’ you seem to be unable to imagine.
And for the record, there are still over a hundred Native American tribes still active today, so you could just ask any one of them about their tribes’ oral history and they would happily tell you about their war and feuds and what not? What do you mean we can’t prove these things happened, the tribes aren’t dead, we’re still here, just ask. There’s tribal museums too, put on by the tribe itself, you could do some basic research before assuming natives were like children who didn’t have the capability of being bad.
