Someone needs to send Mark to spend a winter or two on the Pine Ridge Reservation, or the Navajo Reservation, where the Navajos have no potable water and no electricity.
Indians should be grateful that God made it possible for them to occupy a fruitful land they did not cr4eate, did not buy, did not have to steal or did not have to fight for. In the same respect Christians should be thankful God made it possible for them to occupy a portion of His land that they did not have to create, buy, or wage eternal wars in order to occupy.
Where is there any evidence of that? American Indians are not noted for being particularly enthusiastic Christians. There are good reasons for this.
Many of them were kidnapped by the government and sent to government schools where they were shaved bald and punished for speaking their own languages. Christian missionaries seriously abused Indians in both the US and Canada.
American Indians are not noted for being particularly enthusiastic Christians. There are good reasons for this.
Many of them were kidnapped by the government and sent to government schools where they were shaved bald and punished for speaking their own languages. Christian missionaries seriously abused Indians in both the US and Canada.
"Indian massacre" is a phrase whose use and definition has evolved and expanded over time. European colonists initially used the phrase to describe attacks by indigenous Americans which resulted in mass colonial casualties. While similar attacks by colonists on Indian villages were called "raids" or "battles", successful Indian attacks on white settlements or military posts were routinely termed "massacres". Knowing very little about the native inhabitants of the American frontier, the colonists were deeply fearful, and often, European Americans who had rarely – or never – seen a Native American read Indian atrocity stories in popular literature and newspapers. Emphasis was placed on the depredations of "murderous savages" in their information about Indians, and as the migrants headed further west, they frequently feared the Indians they would encounter.
The phrase eventually became commonly used to also describe mass killings of American Indians. Killings described as "massacres" often had an element of indiscriminate targeting, barbarism, or genocidal intent.
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