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United States Is Responsible for All Tribal Conflicts By Polarisation [1]
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Date: 2023-11-06
(1)Kurt Kaltreider, PH.D. "American Indian Prophecies," p.44: ...It is estimated that 100 million Indians from the Caribbean, Central, South, and North America perished at the hands of the European invaders. Sadly, unbelievably, really, much of that wholesale destruction was sanctioned and carried out by the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant denominations.(1: p.37)
The predators are extremists —
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Norton, Katzman, Escott, Chudacoff, Paterson, Tuttle. "A People & A Nation." Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 52-53. Separatists were the first to move to New England. In 1609 a group of Separatists migrated to Holland, where they found the freedom of worship denied them in Stuart England. But they were nevertheless troubled by the Netherlands' too - tolerant atmosphere; the nation that tolerated them also tolerated religions and behaviors they abhorred. Hoping to isolate themselves and their children from the corrupting influence of worldly temptations, these people, who were to become known as Pilgrims, received permission from a branch of the Virginia Company to colonize the northern part of its territory.
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Puritans, Indians, and Manifest Destiny. p. 49. The fact is that to the Puritan, the Native American was the instrument of Satan. For Cotton Mather the Indians were "doleful creatures who were the veriest ruins of Mankind, who were to be everywhere on the face of the earth"; and even Roger Williams, the great friend of the Indians, said they were devil - worshippers.
who use religion as justification for genocide.
books.google.com/… According to the Massachusetts Records of 1676-1677 a day was set apart for public thanksgiving, because, among other things of moment, "there now scarce remains a name or family of them (the Indians) but are either slain, captivated or fled."
"In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians
were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them." "It may be demanded...Should not Christians have more mercy and
compassion? But...sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents.... We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings." -Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
Perhaps this was another verse extremists used to justify genocide.
"O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!"(Psalm 137:8–9 NRSV)
Or this one.
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And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. . . . Then they said to [the priest], 'Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.' The priest answered them, 'Go in peace. Your journey has the Lord's approval.' . . . Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city. . . . The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there." (Judges 18:1–28 NIV)
The above are tragic instances of genocide from 1492 to the mid to late 1600’s. Approximately two hundred years later, the Navajo fell victim to extremists. Here is but one instance.
Source In January 1861, Manuelito, Barboncito, Herrero Grande, Armijo, Delgadito and other rico leaders agreed to meet Colonel Canby at the new Fort being built, Fort Fauntleroy (later changed to Fort Wingate). The leaders promised it was best to live in peace and promised to drive the ladrones from the tribe that were causing the problem. Peace lasted until September 22, 1861, at which time the Navajos felt they had been cheated during a horse race at the Fort by the soldiers. Navajos, women and children, were shot and bayoneted. After the massacre no Navajos were seen around the Fort. In the meantime, the Civil War was underway and there were battles near Santa Fe between the Confederacy and the Union Army, with the Union Army defeating the Confederates at Glorieta Pass. That being done, Brigadier General Carleton, Commander of the U.S. Army of New Mexico Territory turned his attention to the Navajos. He called the Navajo land, "a princely realm, a magnificent pastoral and mineral country." "The Navajos were wolves that run through the mountains and must be subdued."
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Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee pgs. 16 - 20 And this time of friendship, the Navajos went often to Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate) to trade and draw rations from their agent. Most of the soldiers made them welcome, and a custom grew up of having horse races between the Navajos and the soldiers. All the Navajos looked forward to these contests, and on racing days hundreds of men, women, and children would dress in their brightest costumes and ride their finest ponies to Fort Wingate.... The Navajos, squaws, and children ran in all directions and were shot and bayoneted. I succeeded in forming about 20 men.... I then marched out to the east side of the post; there I saw a soldier murdering two little children and a woman. I hallooed immediately to the soldier to stop. He looked up, but did not obey my order. I ran up as quick as I could, but could not get there soon enough to prevent him from killing the two innocent children and wounding severely the squad. I ordered his belt to be taken off and taken prisoner to the Post.... Meanwhile the colonel had given orders to the officer of the day to have the artillery (mountain howitzers) brought out to open upon the Indians.... after the massacre there were no more Indians to be seen about the post with the exception of a few squaws, favorites of the officers.
What do extremists do, when they can’t exterminate everyone they want to? Extremists revert to softer methods, like pitting one tribe against the other after being unsuccessful with complete annihilation. For example, because of root-and-branch cultural genocide of all Indian Boarding Schools, a fluent speaker of their tribes’ language is mocked for speaking their language by other assimilated tribal members.
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Chapter 131. What is the difference between "gendercide" and "root-and-branch genocide"? Gendercide is the systematic killing of a specific gender, male or female. Gendercide typically targets a community’s adult male population because they are perceived to pose the most threat and opposition to the genocidal regime. Root-and-branch genocide is very similar to gendercide and typically accompanies or succeeds a gendercide against adult men. The “root” refers to the women in their child-bearing years. They are targeted for their potential to bear children of a new generation that will oppose the regime. The “branches” are the children. Children are targeted because they may grow either to fight and take revenge or to give birth to a new generation of resisters. In the modern era, gendercides against “battle-aged” men are more common than root-and-branch genocide.
Remember that the vast majority of white society wished the American Indian (all tribes) exterminated, and polarisation was used as a preliminary step
6. Polarisation Propaganda is employed to amplify the differences between groups. Interactions between groups are prohibited, and the moderate members of the group in power are killed.
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