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It's apt that we call the hundred years of constant fighting with the American Indian "The Indian Wars."
It was just the last battles of a conflict involving every tribe in every location on the continent that had been bouncing from coast to coast for as long as humans had been here.
After the 1890's those wars were over.
Western Civ won and not only did we stop them from fighting us, we forced them to stop fighting each other.
It was a victory for women's rights. It was a victory over slavery. It was a victory over racism and genocide. It stopped kidnapping, murder, torture and rape.
Noble savages my shiny pate.
Maybe, if we'd never come one tribe might have eventually conquered the continent.
Without horses from our coming, though, it might not be the tribe or nation you think.
But we ended the wars.
Like all wars, it was not clean or neat. But that's the nature of war.
War is messy and uneven.
What people are complaining about is akin to bitching the sun comes up in the east and it'd be better if it came up in the west. It isn't and it won't.
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