From: joe@blow.com   
      
   Yes, the major problem with the Anglo-Saxon peoples is that they don't walk   
   their talk. If we had actually practised the Christianity we preached to the   
   Indians, the "conquest" of the Indians would never have taken place. But   
   lying, cheating, stealing and murdering seemed preferable to our ancestors,   
   for the most part, while doing to others as you want them to do to you was   
   obviously deemed too character-intensive.   
      
   Not that everyone behaved that way, but too many did for the entire episode   
   to turn out any differently than it did.   
      
   I'm a Canadian, by the way, and my family came to western Canada in 1875.   
   Over the last 20 years or so I've carried out some very intensive research   
   on my country's absorption of the West and while it was not as brutal as in   
   the US, there is a LOT of shame to be shared.   
   --   
   Best regards,   
   Todd Sauve   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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