Imagine someone cutting a baby out of a pregnant woman and nailing it to a tree.

What our Native Brothers endured was horrific, but the ACCUSED actions of some (yes, I KNOW, nobody can prove the sickening "accounts" of the murder, rape and torture) had to be dealt with. Tell me if I understand why the hangings took place... over 800 non-military settlers were killed? The hangings were the miniumum Lincoln could do to avoid whites seeking revenge after the natives were "defeated". Had none of the natives been punished for the accused "crimes" against the settlers, far more would have died.

I know many will think that my questions are "disgusting" but I attempt to understand what white settlers were actually doing. They were surviving by developing land and hunting and fishing. That land, it's resources and the way of life it provided to the natives was taken from the natives by the whites... by the barrel of a gun. Right or wrong at this point is moot to me because the shitty end of the stick is still being stuck into our Native Brothers and THAT is what I find truly disgusting.

In other words, it's been done the whole world over for centuries. Why?