We persist in romanticizing the native peoples of America. The truth is far different.

Mackubin Owens - "...archaeology yields evidence of prehistoric massacres more severe than any recounted in ethnography"

David Black Mastro added a photo to the album: Lessons from History

For example, at Crow Creek in South Dakota, archaeologists found a mass grave containing the remains of more than 500 men, women, and children who had been slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated during an attack on their village a century and a half before Columbus's arrival (ca. A.D. 135)...
--Lawrence H. Keeley, 'War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage' (1996)

• Donald Sensing - In other words, they were doing what tribes of all races and ethnicities had been doing all over the world for tens of thousands of years.
• Michael Smith - Donald Sensing As I reminded someone the other day, history proves that superior civilizations always overcome inferior civilizations. It is the way of things.