The real enemy of american indian people
Thomas J. DiLorenzo wrote:
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But it was neither all white men nor all capitalists who brutalized the American Indians. The dispossession of the Indians–culminating in the late 1880s with the surviving tribes of the West being herded onto reservations–was the result of a corrupt and immoral relationship between certain Northern industrialists, particularly government-subsidized railroads, and the federal politicians whose careers they financed and promoted.
The eradication of the Plains Indians by the Union army was an indirect form of corporate welfare for politically connected railroad companies who enlisted the coercive powers of the central state to steal Indian property while engaging in a genocidal policy. Like many citizens today, the Indians were victims of governmental power, not of capitalism or European culture, as today’s politically-correct historians insist.
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“During an assault,” he instructed his troops, “the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.” He chillingly referred to this policy in an 1867 letter to Grant as “the final solution to the Indian problem,” a phrase Hitler invoked some 70 years later.
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Ironically, ex-slaves were recruited into the federal army to ethnically cleanse the American West. Movies have been made and books have been written in recent years celebrating these black “buffalo soldiers” by people who are apparently unaware (one hopes) that the black soldiers were taking part in genocide.
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Yet the great railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad without a dime’s worth of subsidies and no land grants. “Our own line in the North was built without any government aid,” Hill boasted proudly in 1893. Unburdened by government regulation (in contrast to his subsidized competitors), Hill chose the best routes, built the sturdiest tracks, and paid the Indians and other landowners free-market prices for rights-of-way across their property.
But Hill was in the minority. The government-business partnership Lincoln established had turned its attention to the West after conquering the South, employing “the great triumvirate of the Civil War” for ethnic cleansing on behalf of government power and its corrupt corporate clients.
(Source: The Free Market.)
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