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Sun, 15 Aug 2010

Native Americans

Sister-in-law, Evelyn sent a link to some photos posted on the Facebook site of one of her friends. I'm posting one which has her standing near the restored monument to General John Sullivan. Sullivan fought in the late 17770s against "Tory-Indian menace".

It made me wonder whether the alliance between the British and the Native Americans helped to create the conditions which caused the almost unending battle between troops of the U.S. and the various tribes which were encountered as European immigrant families spread westward from the east coast. Perhaps there would have been a greater desire for live-and-let-live if the fighting hadn't begun so early, well before most of the expansion by the pioneers.