TCNPress.Org Original Coverage - Yes It Was Horrible But Get Over Yourselves

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Byline - Fort Smith, Arkansas

May 29, 2025 - 6:20 AM

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Have you ever considered what passes for American history concerning the Original Nations people?

Over the last week, three major television series have focused on the people of the Original Nations and their colonization by the colonies and the United States.

All three shared the same narrative: what happened to the Indians was terrible, but the United States needed to grow, so the Original Nations people should just shut up, accept it, get over it, and quit bitching and moaning about it.

It seems like every historian and commentator on these series appears to promote the acceptance of the genocidal practices of the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny because the United States grew larger and became a superpower.

Each of the series seems to glorify the wanton murder, theft, rape, pillage, and plunder of Original Nations people and then justifies it as a necessity for the new nation to expand to fulfil its potential.

Why did they not interview one person from any of the main Christian religions about how the Christian God was used to promote this behavior and whether they still approve or repudiate the practices in glorifying the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny?  If they repudiate it today, what are they doing to day to restore the Original Nations people with their lands and riches lost?

We must teach people to read American history with a grain of salt and not trust it.  The Colonists, squatters, settlers, and the United States government had one policy concerning the Original Nations' people:  Subjugate them and take their lands; if they refused to be subjugated, kill them and take their lands.  Best summarized by Captain Richard Henry Pratt and adopted by the American Indian Schools: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.

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