11-03-2015, 08:57 AM
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Originally posted by shockwave rider
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Originally posted by Punatic007
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Originally posted by Bullwinkle
From my days as a cultural anthropology student - I remember lectures stressing ritual cannibalism was practiced to absorb the Mana - not so much to gain the power of the diseased - but to prevent the spirit of the slain warrior from continuing the battle from beyond the hereafter
north american indians dismembered the bodies of their slain enemies for the same reason - reinforcing the immigrants flawed belief system that indians were barbaric cultures fit for extermination
Regarding you last paragraph/sentence, we have too many historical accounts of enough predatory Indian tribes with an agenda of exterminating the settlers to keep perpetuating the blaming the white man syndrome ad nauseum. No one was safe, what was done was defensive, period. Good God let it go, you weren't even there.
So fighting off an invading population, who crossed a vast ocean to move onto your land is not defensive, but the killing of the people who were already there by the invaders is defensive action?
You have really weird logic. If the reverse had been true, and hoards of people from the Americas had travelled to Europe, moved onto European lands, and then tried to kill as many of the Europeans as possible who defended their lands, would you still say that was a defensive action?
Shockwave it's incredibly simple yet too hard for many to grasp. Here's a recap:
Settlers to America weren't informed of the Indian conflict, they came in mass ,settled and the conflicts arose, fatal conflicts. I've read settler memoirs of the inability to co-exist due to brutal Indian attacks. Many Indian tribes were sadisticly barbaric. Regardless, what's done is done, those people, none of them exist today, what logic is there in blaming others or descendants? That simply stirs up racism like we see here in Hawaii. Totally and completely unproductive.