aS. Russell Means, the great leader of the American Indian movement, says in his autobiography where white people are afraid to walkColumbus was a murderous heather who ‘discovered’ the heaven on Earth that was home to the Native Americans and immediately agreed to turn it into a living hell for them.
Until Columbus’ landing in the Caribbean in the late 15th century, and European settlers began to herd the continents for three centuries, the Americas were a haven for Native Americans, a way of life characterized by unbridled personal freedom and social was based on equality.
in his book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanityauthors David Graber and David Vengro quote from the memoirs of Frenchman Lahontan to show that Native Americans were better off than Europeans: “They think it is irresponsible to have one person more than another.” should, and that the rich should have more. esteem than the poor. In short, they say, the name of the wild beasts, which we give to them, would be better in itself, for there is nothing like that in our actions Who gives the impression of knowledge.”
Eurocentric historiography always tells us that the Native Americans were barbarians. The book clearly proves that Europeans borrowed the basic principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, the basis of democracy, from Native American societies.
the book is summer moon kingdom Which tells the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was abducted by the Comanche, the largest horse tribe of the Great Plains of North America.
Cynthia was kidnapped by the Comanche in 1836 when she was nine years old. “She was the best known of all the Indian captives of the time, discussed in the drawing rooms of New York and London as the ‘White Squaw’ because she repeatedly refused to return to her people. , thus challenging one of the most fundamental Eurocentric assumptions about Indian ways: given the choice between the sophisticated, industrialized, Christian culture of Europe and the barbaric, bloody and morally backward ways of Indians, any sane person Would never choose the latter.”
Cynthia lived with the Comanches, married the young war chief Peta Nocona. His son Kwanna Parker was the last and most famous Comanche war chief, having fought the American offensive in the prairie lands of the Comanche and Apache to save a herd of buffalo from the Whites.
The herd of buffaloes was being wiped out collectively by whites.
About this mass destruction, Peter Mathiesen says in his book In the feeling ofcrazy Horse: “The government had meanwhile set about exterminating the sacred buffalo, which the Indians viewed as the companion of the sun and numbered between thirty and sixty million when the first horses hunted the plains by the Indians.”
When Kwanah was 10 years old, in December 1860, American troops attacked the remote village of Peta Nocona, the Kingdom of Summer Moon, killing him and his men, setting their village on fire and killing Cynthia with their daughter Prairie Flower. Captured with, who was a child. Since the Comanche boys were splendid bareback riders until the age of six, Kwana escaped on horseback and the soldiers could not overtake him. He grew into a great war chief, but since then he has never seen his beloved mother.
The history of the eradication of millions and millions of Native Americans and their bond with nature is one of the most heart-wrenching chapters in the annals of world history. And the story of Cynthia Ann is one of the most poignant in the tragic history of Native Americans.
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