thought of yet. The cutthroat mentality necessary for europeans to live in such large numbers so close to each other hadn't been necessary for the native tribes who populated North America. The europeans needed weapons to kill each other that took fairness and honor out of the equation. The natives of North America didn't need such dishonorable things. They had so much space that sooner or later every tribe knew Peace.
From my favorite Queen song:
Oh the red man knows wars
With his hands and his knives (I think this was actually "his mind"
On the Bible you swore
Fought your battle with lies
A simple, primitive culture were caught off guard by a culture who was already well versed in ways to kill other humans... and thought little of doing so if it meant gaining an inch of land. A culture who bred like roaches, and needed to find new places to live not ONLY because of their proximity to one another, but also for their propensity for turning weaker peoples into feudal slaves.
I don't care that white europeans use the tribal names of my ancestors to name their killing machines. Words are just words. I don't care because I know that if the europeans had shown up on these shores armed with the same weapons the First Nations had, they wouldn't have stood a snowball's chance in hell of surviving their first contact. The europeans would have continued sending boats, only to have the passengers on those boats subject to worse and worse punishments. The only reason they sent the boats in the first place is because they lacked the good sense to live in close proximity to each other without claiming the land each other lived on.
CALL your killing machine the Apache. Call your killing machine whatever you want... WE know your reason: You don't want to call your killing machine a "White European". It cheapens you somehow.
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