The Buffalo
a book he was reading
suggests(inanely) subtly seductively
-- as if it were trying to talk a
girl out of her panties -- that the Native Indian tribes across pre-historic
America and into its western push plugged
as Manifest Destiny(Gaaaad -- aint that the best reason ever) saw benefits
from the European White Man’s arrival on the shores of the Continent(Their
Continent would have been more appealing but they did not conceive of land ownership --
another White Man’s concept
and His Appropriation)
the author touts how Natives were
introduced to horses
he touts the benefit they learned
of improved hunting by the introduction of firearms
the enlightened trade of tangible
Goods for liquor
the writer even touts
how the White Man tried to stop Indian tribes from becoming infected by
smallpox and while methods of vaccinations
were had in the Cuntry’s(even then) urban centers they did not make them available to the
Indians
aptly quoting the writer:
“(1837) In Dakota the smallpox
left a wide stretch of open land on both sides of the Missouri from Fort Pierre
about 250 miles upstream, in country formerly claimed by the Arikara, Mandan,
and Hidatsa.”
while he and who he associated with
would call that genocide
the
writer did not
it was among many genocides perpetuated
in the New World(not America
-- he had to catch himself) with
a deathly agent
either a trick picked up from Cortez
the Killer in 1521 against the Aztecs
a priest who witnessed the events
wrote:
“As the Indians did not know the
remedy of the disease they died in heaps like bedbugs. In many places it
happened that everyone in a house died and, as it was impossible to bury the
great number of dead, they pulled down the houses over them so that their homes
become their tombs.” *
or the Massachusetts(it wasnt called
Massachusetts then) smallpox genocide of 1617 – 1619(a historical footnote) where
an estimated 90% of Native Indians died
its survivors were
the Machicans of Berkshire who limited their contact with the infectious Europeans
evidently the New World tribes couldnt
handle Old World cooties
the corruption of
European(Eurasian) plagues and diseases
they never became so civilised to
squander their health their nearness to
the Land or its Earthling Brothers and Sisters
and while many tribes fashioned
and wore elaborate ceremonial headdresses
not one was fashioned
like the Plague doctors anteater masks
or
did they make lousy their villages with the foetid squalor that existed in Old World
cities
those who claimed to be Gaaads Chosen the Most Perfect People existed only in their racial and societal
constructs
and their bloodlust for armament
to kill The Other
this book of The Buffalo
unleashed more than he bargained
for
Fadder’s Day
afternoon, 21 6. 15
* http://mason.gmu.edu/~alaemmer/disease/smallpox.pdf
