This op-ed column by a Stanford political scientist gives a misleading picture of atrocities in the American West. For just one example of Indian atrocities, read this firsthand account of the Fetterman massacre by an Army surgeon, Samuel M. Horton. I'm a lifelong student of the American West, and I can say without the slightest hesitation (or exaggeration) that the atrocities committed by Indians were far more frequent and much worse than those committed by whites. I laugh whenever I hear someone say the native peoples of North America were peaceable. They were savages. The world was a better place when they were forced onto reservations.
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