Go here to read the rest. The settlers and Indians had much in common, some good and some bad, the bad testifying to the need for our Savior Jesus Christ.
Brothers Under the Skin
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The Native American Indians cannibalized each other. Although there were peaceable tribes and Seneca wrote an alphbet, the Nez -Pierce were peaceable and helped Lewis and Clark. Most were cannibals. We are now celebrating Indigenous Cannibal Day instead of Columbus Day. See: Francis Parkmen’s history of the Native Indians where he describes the cannibalization of an infant while they forced his mother to watch.
We are there now with abortion.
Under the skin.
Here’s a hero of mine;
Deep in the dense and endless forests of Iroquois nation, St.Jean de Brébeuf, bound tightly to a post, slowly stretched his neck and head toward the canopy high above, and prayed. An Iroquois war party had attacked his Huron mission the day before. He had a chance to escape but he chose to stay. The baptized and neophytes looked to him, needed him, and were captured with him. Saint Jean had long before witnessed, and chronicled, the Iroquois’ depraved treatment of their Indian enemies. Now he was the captive and now he would be the victim. The painted braves prepared their instruments of torture and the ritual butchery commenced. The Iroquis peeled Jean’s lips from his face and cut off his nose and ears. Saint Jean was as silent as a rock. They poured boiling water over his head in a mock baptism and pressed hatchets, glowing red hot, against his open wounds. A hard blow to the face split his jaw in two. This was pain beyond pain, a living holocaust. When the saint tried to encourage his fellow captives with holy words, the Indians cut out his tongue. Near the end, they cut out his heart and ate it. Raw. Then they drank his warm blood. They wanted the blood of this lion to course in their own veins. Eye witnesses to Saint Jean’s torture and death, which took place alongside that of Fr. Gabriel Lalemant, escaped captivity and gave detailed accounts of what they had seen. Fellow Jesuits recovered the two bodies days later and verified their wounds. Brébeuf’s skull was placed in a reliquary in a convent in Quebec City. It is still there today.
Zinn made no apologies for skewing history to make US look like utter evil perps.
Even when presented with facts he was more interested in message conveyed over factual content.
I loathe him.