3 Native American Tribes That Terrified the U.S. Army

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@raeshaker2126 5 ай бұрын

Excellent overview of the only native tribes who were able to successfully resist, and with dramatic impact, America's expansion and domination of the land. These people proved the folly and hubris of manifest destiny, with the U.S. government's failure to differentiate these tribes from the vast numbers before then that they had subdued with relative ease. In particular, these tribes had the advantage of being able to acquire knowledge of U.S. military practices and tactics and put that knowledge to benefit with foresight and leadership to adapt their own practices. They had experience of their own, especially the Apaches, in their history with the Spanish, from whom they acquired knowledge in savage conquest and learned some of their own their brutal practices of torture. These tribes also took advantage of the geography, not only its features, but the vast distances with which the U.S. army had much difficulty adapting. We need to look past the cruelty and brutality of these tribes for which they are so well-known, not to be judged by our own modern values, but seen within the historic and cultural context in which they existed. It is but for the tragedy of circumstances in which history caught them that they were, with much sadness, consigned to inevitable doom. These are people who should hold an honored place in history and in our esteem for the formidable fidelity they held to their family and tribal values and culture, and recognized for the courage with which they defended themselves and their place in on land. Sadder yet would be to let these people continue in the existence in which this country has since consigned them.

@chisolm5 5 ай бұрын

The Comanche were also feared by the other tribes of the Southwest. The Comanche basically drove the Apache completely out of Texas and most of New Mexico and into Arizona and Mexico They were truly the Lords of the Plains and masters of all they surveyed.

@launiesoult3248 4 ай бұрын

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@paulpeek6882 5 ай бұрын

You failed to mention the one tribe the Comanche feared. I have talked with present day Comanche and when I spoke the name Tewa they became quiet then one spoke up and said that was the tribe who's legendary ferocity was still talked about among Comanche. So maybe here's a tribe maybe you didn't know about. The naming of the Tewa village on the Hopi third Mesa is an interesting read.