... versions of history are-have-always-been highly politicized
... my generation being-taught 'Vikings' were marauders-invaders
... while other European nations were portrayed to be 'Colonizers'
... as they invaded-taking-over huge portions of the known & New-Worlds
... colonial, colonist, frontiersman, homesteader, pioneer, settler
... whatever ... it turned into becoming genocide on a massive scale
... far greater than when Hitler slaughtered millions during his reign of terror
... when the New-World was 'discovered' it was far from being an-unoccupied-land
... estimates range from upwards of 30-50 million people were then already here
... in North America millions-of-indigenous-peoples 'fending-for-themselves'
... going-back-thousands-of-years ... hundreds of tribes coast-to-coast
... then-they-got-invaded 'colon-ized'.. (look-how-well that's-been-workin-out)
... as far as we know it was first instance of massive-plague[s] in North America
... one's Europeans brought with them decimating a completely-vulnerable-population
... for sure 'Indian-Wars' took lives of hundreds-of-thousands probably-millions
... yet the real deadly toll came by way of numerous-infectious-deadly-diseases
... smallpox, malaria, viral influenza, yellow fever, measles, typhus, bubonic plague, typhoid fever, cholera, & pertussis (whooping cough)
... tens of millions of indigenous populations perished
... at same time we were invading foreign lands capturing-kidnapping several-hundred-thousand of other-nations'-peoples
... to be used as beasts-of-burden slave-labor on-'our-soil'
... then came the numerous prejudices against: limeys.. micks.. frogs.. kikes.. cochise.. dagos.. gooks.. nips.. jungle-bunnies.. chinks.. spics.. pinkos.. wetbacks.. etal
... we live today with-these-outcomes legacies-from-our-past into-our-present
... true-history of who-we-are ... the-darker-side of our 'melting-pot'-heritage
