"Vicious murdering savages" is what Robert Freeman, historian for Sons of Confederate Veterans, dehumanizes Quapaw, Osage, and Caddo tribes and the other Native American nations who inhabited Arkansas before France or Spain exercised dominion over Arkansas" as being.
“Do not lose sight of the nature of the Indian tribes to be commemorated, they were vicious murdering savages,” Robert Freeman told the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee, KATV reported. “Especially the Caddos, who when aligned with the Kiowas, raided the early settlements of Arkansas territory killed and scalped men, women, and children from the Arkansas River to southwestern Texas."
Why, besides his ignorance and Genocide Denial, did he say that?
The Arkansas flag features a star that was added in the 1920s to symbolize the Confederate States of America. The star is located above the word "Arkansas" while three stars below it represent the United States, Spain and France, with the latter two once exercising dominion over Arkansas.
Rep. Charles Blake, a Democrat, first introduced legislation that would have changed the meaning of the Confederate star. HB1487 would represent the Indian nations that called Arkansas their home before being removed to present-day Oklahoma.
History is written by the executioners. While the "Indian tribes to be commemorated" acted in self defense to survive extermination - peacefully or not - it was the white man who were "vicious murdering savages."
In response, black sharecroppers in Arkansas attempted to form a union. The reaction from whites was incendiary. September 30 marks the 98th anniversary of the Elaine, Arkansas massacre, in which 237 black Americans were killed. It’s been describedas possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States.
The summer and autumn of 1919, in fact, has been termed “Red Summer,” after racist-fueled violence in cities across the country ended in hundreds of deaths, mostly of black people killed by whites.
Sand Creek Massacre of November 29th, 1864: 154th Anniversary
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Adding still more misery, were facts that hunting was scarce on this land tract, nor was it suited to farming. Also, white encroachment from the Pike's Peak gold rush escalated, while Civil War soldiers roamed onto their grounds. Then, Chivington, the butcher of Sand Creek, began his campaign of extermination and genocide.
Source www.lastoftheindependents.com/... In the spring of 1864, while the Civil War raged in the east, Chivington launched a campaign of violence against the Cheyenne and their allies, his troops attacking any and all Indians and razing their villages. The Cheyennes, joined by neighboring Arapahos, Sioux, Comanches, and Kiowas in both Colorado and Kansas, went on the defensive warpath. www.lastoftheindependents.com/...
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