How many settlers were killed by indians

Women often fought alongside the men. The Comanche bands were loose associations of warrior-raiders, like a confederation of small street gangs. In every society, teenage and twenty-something youths are the most violent, and even if they had wanted to, Comanche tribal chiefs had no way of stopping their young men from raiding.

But the Comanche found their match with the Texas Rangers. They were a tough guerilla force, as merciless as their Comanche opponents. They also respected them. The Texas Rangers often fared badly against their enemy until they learned how to fight like them, and until they were given the new Colt revolver. During the Civil War, when the Rangers left to fight for the Confederacy, the Comanche rolled back the American frontier and white settlements by miles.

Even after the Rangers came back and the U. Army joined the campaigns against Comanche raiders, Texas lost an average of settlers a year until the Red River War of , where the full might of the Army — and the destruction of great buffalo herds on which they depended — ended Commanche depredations. Interestingly the Comanche, though hostile to all competing tribes and people they came across, had no sense of race.

They supplemented their numbers with young American or Mexican captives, who could become full-fledged members of the tribe if they had warrior potential and could survive initiation rites. Weaker captives might be sold to Mexican traders as slaves, but more often were slaughtered. One of the great chiefs, Quanah, was the son of the white captive Cynthia Ann Parker.

His father was killed in a raid by Texas Rangers that resulted in her being rescued from the tribe. She never adjusted to life back in civilisation and starved herself to death. Glossy version: Depp said that he wanted to portray Tonto in a sympathetic light. Quanah surrendered to the Army in He adapted well to life in a reservation, and indeed the Comanche, rather amazingly, become one of the most economically successful and best assimilated tribes.

As a result, the main Comanche reservation was closed in , and Comanche soldiers served in the U. Army with distinction in the World Wars. Even today they are among the most prosperous native Americans, with a reputation for education. Not only is it a travesty of the truth, it does no favours to the Indians Depp is so keen to support.

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Forty years after the attack, she wrote about the war and the friends she lost. Any bitterness was replaced with a longing for the scenes and images of childhood. Little Pauline and Minnie Kitzmann, my sister Augusta and I often brought our aprons-full home to make garlands out of them. Years after, when I used to see the white cherry blossoms, I used to wish that I could go back and cover the graves of my little friends with the flowers they loved so well," wrote Carrigan.

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Woolworth says the settler killings are still controversial. Getty "Oh yeah, this is just my walkin' around paint. OK, now that we got that out of the way, we can tell you about the historical slash-fiction your history teacher forgot to tell you actually freaking happened. America was discovered in because Europeans were starting to get curious about the outside world thanks to the Renaissance and Enlightenment and Europeans of the time just generally being the first smart people ever.

Columbus named the people who already lived there Indians, presumably because he was being charmingly self-deprecating. That's the future's problem. Here's what we know. A bunch of vikings set up a successful colony in Greenland that lasted for years To put that into perspective, the white European settlement currently known as the United States will need to wait until the year to match that longevity.

The vikings spent a good portion of that time sending expeditions down south to try to settle what they called Vineland -- which historians now believe was the East Coast of North America. Some place the vikings as far south as modern day North Carolina. After spending a couple decades sneaking ashore to raid Vineland of its ample wood pulp, the vikings made a go of settling North America in After landing there with livestock, supplies and between and settlers, they set up the first successful European American colony And then the Native Americans kicked their ass out of the country, shooting the head viking in the heart with an arrow.

So to recap, the vikings discovered America. They were camping off the coast of America, and had every reason to settle America for about years. Despite being the biggest badasses in European history, one tangle with the natives was enough to convince the vikings that settling America wasn't worth the trouble.

If you think the pilgrims would have fared any better than the vikings against an East Coast chock-full of Native Americans, you either don't know what a viking is or you're placing entirely too much stock in the strategic importance of having belt buckles on your shoes. If the Indians had been at full strength in , white people might still be sneaking onto the East Coast to steal wood pulp.

That's as far as the vikings got in years, and they were sailing from much closer than Europe and desperately needed the resources -- the two competing theories for why the viking settlements on Greenland eventually died out are lack of resources and getting killed by natives -- and, perhaps most importantly, they were goddamned vikings.

So why did your history teachers lie? This should have been history teachers' version of dinosaurs: a mostly unknown period of violent awesomeness they nevertheless told you about because they knew it would hook every male between the ages of 5 and 12 forever.

Consider this one a freebie, Hollywood. It turns out that many of the awesomest stories had to be paved over by the bullshit you memorized in order to protect your teachers and parents from awkward conversations. Like the one about how Columbus discovered America thanks to a daring journey across the Atlantic. His crew was about to throw him overboard when land was spotted.

Even after he landed in America, Columbus didn't realize he'd discovered an entire continent because maps of America were far less reliable back then. In one of the great tragedies of history, Columbus went to his grave poor, believing he'd merely discovered India.

Nobody really "got" America's potential until the pilgrims showed up and successfully settled the country for the first time. Nearly years might seem like a long time between trips, but boats were really slow back in those days, and they'd just learned that the Atlantic Ocean went that far. First of all, Columbus wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic. Nor were the vikings. Two Native Americans landed in Holland in 60 B. Columbus didn't see the enormous significance of his ability to cross the Atlantic because it wasn't especially significant.

His voyage wasn't particularly difficult. They enjoyed smooth sailing, and nobody was threatening to throw him overboard. Despite what history books tell kids and the Internet apparently believes , Columbus died wealthy, and with a pretty good idea of what he'd found -- on his third voyage to America, he wrote in his journal , "I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

The myths surrounding him cover up the fact that Columbus was calculating, shrewd and as hungry for gold as the voice over guy in the Cash4Gold ads. When he couldn't find enough of the yellow stuff to make his voyage profitable, he focused on enslaving Native Americans for profit.

That's how efficient Columbus was -- he discovered America and invented American slavery in the same year span. There were plenty of unsuccessful, mostly horrible attempts to settle America between Columbus' discovery and the pilgrims' arrival.

We only hear these two "settling of America" stories because history books and movies aren't huge fans of what white people got up to between and in America -- mostly digging for gold and eating each other.

Getty When people talk about traditional American values, this is what they mean. They also show us white Europeans being unable to easily defeat a native population that hadn't yet been ravaged by plague. It wasn't coincidence that the pilgrims settled America two years after New England was emptied of 96 percent of the Indians who lived there.

According to James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me , that's generally how the settling process went: The plague acted as a lead blocker for white European settlers, clearing the land of all the natives. The Europeans had superior weapons, but they also had superior guns when they tried to colonize China, India, Africa and basically every other region on the planet. When you picture Chinese or Indian or African people today, they're not white because those lands were already inhabited when the Europeans showed up.

And so was America. American history goes to almost comical lengths to ignore that fact. For instance, if your reading comprehension was strong in middle school, you might remember the lost colony of Roanoke, where the people mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only one cryptic clue: the word "Croatan" carved into the town post.

As we've covered before , this is only a mystery if you are the worst detective ever. Croatan was the name of a nearby island populated by friendly Native Americans. In the years after the people of Roanoke "disappeared," genetically impossible Native Americans with gray eyes and an "astounding" familiarity with distinctly European customs began to pop up in the tribes that moved between Croatan and Roanoke islands.

Let's just go ahead and call it alien abduction. The pilgrims were the first in a parade of brave settlers who pushed civilization westward along the frontier with elbow grease and sheer grizzled-old-man strength.

In written records from early colonial times, you constantly come across "settlers" being shocked at how convenient the American wilderness made things for them. The eastern forests, generally portrayed by great American writers as a "thick, unbroken snarl of trees" no longer existed by the time the white European settlers actually showed up.

The pilgrims couldn't believe their luck when they found that American forests just naturally contained "an ecological kaleidosocope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory and oak. Getty "We have hours of weeding ahead of us, but by the grace of God, we will persevere. The puzzlingly obedient wilderness didn't stop in New England.

Frontiersmen who settled what is today Ohio were psyched to find that the forest there naturally grew in a way that "resembled English parks. Whether they honestly believed they'd lucked into the 17th century equivalent of Candyland or were being willfully ignorant about how the land got so tamed, the truth about the presettled wilderness didn't make it into the official account. It's the same reason every extraordinarily lucky CEO of the past years has written a book about leadership.

It's always a better idea to credit hard work and intelligence than to acknowledge that you just got luckier than any group of people has ever gotten in the history of the world. Nobody's role in settling America has been quite as overplayed as the pilgrims'. Despite famous sermons with titles like "Into the Wilderness," the pilgrims cherry-picked Plymouth specifically because it was a recently abandoned town.

After sailing up and down the coast of Cape Cod, they chose Plymouth Rock because of "its beautiful cleared fields, recently planted in corn, and its useful harbor.