From: bigmitch@nospam.com   
      
   Don't forget about the deeds of the noble red man.  Little babies were   
   held by the feet and swung into trees, effectively knocking their brains   
   out.  A soldier at Little Bighorn was pinned to the ground after an   
   Indian woman hammered a picket pin through his testicles.  Atrocities   
   were committed by both sides.   
      
   Loon E. Toon wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > zulu.pacifier.com@shell1.pacifier.net says...   
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   >>Chivington showed what that difference led   
   >>to, while Custer's presence with the 19th   
   >>Kansas prevented a similar atrocity.   
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   >>Bob T   
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   > And perhaps you can excuse the action of   
   > US Cavalry at Wounded Knee too? I make no   
   > claim to being an authority on the Indian   
   > Wars, and I read as much fiction as non-fiction   
   > and admit to sometimes getting the two mixed   
   > up in my aging mind. But I don't think it was   
   > ONLY militia types who took scalps, breasts, etc.   
   > as souvenirs. Interestingly, there are   
   > those who have tallied the loss of life on   
   > both sides, and certainly as many Europeans   
   > as Natives were massacred over the course   
   > of "settlement."   
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