Did you know that George Washington?

Question

claimed there was no difference in "Indians" from wolves, helping to justify overwhelming hatred of Native People whom he labeled redskin savages:
"BOTH BEING BEASTS OF PREY, THO' THEY DIFFER IN SHAPE."

He waged a personal war of genocide instructing Major General John Sullivan in 1779 to hunt the Mohawk like wild animals and to "Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed," urging the general not to "listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected." Sullivan did this reporting he had, "destroy[ed] everything that contributes to their support" turning "the whole of that beautiful region from the character of a garden to a scene of drear and sickening desolation." Washington's troops amused themselves by skinning the bodies of Indians "from the hips downward, to make boot tops or leggins."

Happy President's day.

This is my source

http://www.iwchildren.org/redskinhate.htm

Answer 1

Normally I try not to answer pointed one sided question for it does not benefit my point standings.

There had been several Indian wars prior to the American revolution, and all of them very terrible and bloody. To say that ." Washington's troops amused themselves by skinning the bodies of Indians "from the hips downward, to make boot tops or leggins." does not mean that the Indians did any better with their victims. It was a very bloody time and a very blood war. The British recruited the Indians to lay waste to all the settlements. The troops who defeated the Indians were mostly local militias made up of men from the area who had survived the Indian attacks, ( becasue they were out fighting the British) had lost kin, their families and farms, or had known people who were killed by the Indians. The troops that did participated in this action were under the command of General Gates, and only under Washington command because Washington was Gates superior officer. In fact in memory serves me then some of these troops were under the direct command of Benedict Arnold.

As far as "Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed," urging the general not to "listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected." the Indians had a habit of taking to the field and then sneaking back to their settlements and wanting to go on the peace trail (so they can hunt and fish) until later ( when they had enough food to go back to fighting.

War is about destroying an enemy. One wins because he destroys the other or destroys the others will to fight.

Had the Indians not wanted to join the war they should not have taken the money that the British gave them. They could have sat out the war without doing nothing, but they were paid, they took the money and they slaughtered every settlement and farm they could find, men , women and children, they even tool a couple for slave and to tortured, including the girlfriend of a British officer.

And as far as your wed site such a load of propaganda I have not seen in a long time.

The Indians of the America were done an injustice yes, and the have suffered and continue to suffer. But the Indian culture was doomed. The divisions of the contents by the oceans isolated the Asians (Indians) that had migrated to the Americas from Asia, and their culture never developed much beyond the hunter and gathers of the stone age barring the Mayans, Aztec, and Incan. So when the next farther advance civilization came around they would either advance, join in , or become extinct, just as all the other civilizations, peoples, and cultures, had done in the pass. The real North American Indians were not like the romantic versions that are portrayed in the films. You can not change history, stop progress, or turn back the clock. The purpose to learn from history is not to make the same mistakes twice.

George Washington was a man like any other man. He was not perfect, fought Indians, the French, and the British. He fought for the freedom of men but held slaves. He even knew slavery was wrong and he set his slaves free and it took him awhile to do this, fore that was the way he grew up and that was life as he knew it. But he did father a great country, and most of all he did what so many like him before and after failed to do. When he won the victory against the British he did not proclaim or make himself ruler of the new country he created but released the army and went home, when called into office as president he served 2 terms then stepped down and when he stepped down the American Democracy was born. And that was his greatness, not fighting Indians. Think of all the others who lead a successful revolt and became dictators, Napoleon, Castro, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Ho Che Min, Chavez, Alexander. The world is still full of them.

Happy Presidents day.

Phil Sherdian is Quoted as to the saying "the only good Indian is a dead Indain" and this was a miss quote. Prior to serving in the US Civil Sheridian served in the west and lived with Indians in the Willamette Valley in 1855. In 1869 an Indian known as Silver Knife told sheridian the he was a good indian and Sheridians reply was "All the good Indians I know are dead."

Answer 2

A lot of Americans felt this way and it was because during the Revolutionary War many Indians supported the British. What provoked this statement was when an Indian tribe attacked Americans in western New York and killed woman and children. Washington made this statement during wartime.

Answer 3

Yes--that's hardly news, and unless you believe a person must be perfect to deserve respect, it's no reason not to respect Washington--for the good things that he did, not for everything he did.

Answer 4

Yes. But did you also know that Andrew Jackson said that "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?

Answer 5

Good for George. The George we have now should do the same about Iraqis.

Answer 6

Eeeeeeh! That is so horrible. What a history we have.