To protect settlers in new mexico the spanish paid comanche and navajo allies to attack the1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() And they were amazingly stripped down in that they didn't have social organization or religious organization. Because of that, it was a military community and their old way of life was supplanted by the new way of life which mainly had to do with war. Because of their incredible military mastery, which derived from the horse - they were the prototype horse tribe, the tribe that could do more with the horse than any other tribe could. "The Comanches were kind of like the Spartans. Not only that but torture was institutionalized during things like the Counter-Reformation and the Spanish Inquisition and the Russian Revolution." We - being white European - did all of those things. In a lot of ways, I think we're looking back at earlier versions of ourselves. And you know, if you look at the Comanches and you look back in history at Goths and Vikings or Mongols or Celts - old Celts are actually a very good parallel. ![]() ![]() They swept everyone off the Southern plains. "There was even an attempt at one point to deny that Indians were warlike. On rewriting history to leave out Native American atrocities You have to come to terms with this - with torture, which they practiced all across the West - and these kind of grisly practices that scared white people to death." And it's an interesting kind of moral question as a historian about Plains Indians or American Indians in general. And all of the people in those settlements back in those years knew what a Comanche raid was - knew what a Comanche raid meant. The women were often raped and often killed. A lot of the children in say, the 3-10 range were often taken as captives. The white men were astonished by it but they were assumed that they would be killed. That was one of the reasons that Indians fought to the death. But the automatic thing in battle is that all the adult males would be killed. ![]() "This is what Indians did to Indians and this just happened to be Indians meeting whites. On what the raid on the Parker fort was like ![]()
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