Once upon a time the Injuns were savages and the cowboys defended good white folk from, well, the sorts of high plains violence depicted in Thomas Goodrich’s “Scalp Dance”:

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But these gentle spiritual people, with the complex cosmology, would not hurt a butterfly, modern scholars tell us; if they reacted it was due to white privilege.

Then there is the question of those smallpox-infected blankets, early biological genocide by the evil pale faces:

That is why we must feel eternal shame, and beyond.