Status Updates From Not Stolen: The Truth About...

When the book cited Thomas Sowell I became dubious --later the book stated Racism didn't emerge in America until the late 19th century, in other words AFTER the Civil War (Racial Slave Codes quoted in the 1619 project don't count apparently)!!!

People lament the fact that the Indian population dipped below a few hundred thousand by 1900, but it might easily have dipped far lower, had the federal government not intervened to provide medicine, food, and other material support to the remaining Indians. It is indisputable that the US government’s vaccination policy saved far more Indians than were massacred during the entire nineteenth century

this early pattern of marrying Indian “nobles” we may detect an assumption on the part of Europeans that Indian society would be long-lasting and permanent—just like Islamic society had proven to be. There would be no point in marrying into the nobility of a society that one expected to disappear over the course of a few generations

The Apache are thought by archaeologists to have originated in Alaska and then rampaged southwards. Conquering and intimidating as they went, like a group of New World Huns or Vandals, the Apache finally reached the region of Texas by the time the first Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century.