“We Don’t Deserve This”

Jack R. Noel
September 16, 2023

It is common today to see blame-aiming ideologues blaming either “White people” or “Europeans” for “destroying” Native American cultures, which, according to them once had “thriving cultures and human values.”

The blame-aiming is what triggered me. On the face of it, this is divisive and creates hard feelings all around. It’s also inaccurate and unneeded unless someone has an interest in dividing us all. Which of course they do.

Let’s do a brief review of actual events. Starting with the original occupants. Archeologists and anthropologists are still trying to pin down the time when humans first arrived in North and South America. But so far the consensus is about fourteen thousand years ago. In other words, about 10,000 years before there was a pharaonic Egypt, any such thing as a nation of Isreal or a Roman empire.

So the native Americans of four to five hundred years ago had barely begun to build a few settlements with as many as 50,000 people.

And it was no more than five centuries ago that Europeans even became aware of North America and South America. And they did what every human does, they used “Finders Keepers” as their founding assumption.

Especially because the North American indigenous people were behind their South American neighbors in that there were no megalithic structures north of the current border with Mexico. The northern tribes were still deep in the Stone Age and…