Hi mooman. Thanks for the kind words.

I'm not so much getting riled up by some of the posts here as I am getting concerned when I see entire groups of people being scapegoated because of the actions of a few members of the group. We've seen where that sort of thing leads before, and I think we can agree that it's not pretty.

Troll, I think I chose my words badly. Where I went wrong is with the way I was thinking of the word "stampede". In my mind, stampede meant sending huge buffalo herds over cliffs, without any regard for whether or not the dead animals were needed for survival, or used for that purpose.

Here's the difference between what the Indians did and what the Europeans did. The Indians chased limited numbers of buffalo over cliffs and then used every part of all of the dead buffalo for their survival. The Europeans stampeded vast herds of buffalo over cliffs simply in order to deprive the Indians of their livelihood, and to get rich from the buffalo pelts and tongues. They left the carcasses to rot in the sun. I'll provide some links for you later, when I have more time.