History Lessons

One interesting but frustratingly annoying truth seems to be the tendency of the victors in a conflict to rewrite history to diminish the atrocities that they committed and magnify those that the losing side committed.  There's no better example of this than the historical marker signs that we've seen as we've ridden across Texas.  Native Americans, including Apache's and Comanche's roamed much of the land in south west Texas, subsisting with a hunter-gatherer resource dependency.  Encroaching white settlers pushed them off of their ancestral hunting/fishing grounds and eventually shrunk their range to a tiny fraction of its original size.  From the seventeen hundreds to the late eighteen hundreds, the story of European expansion is littered with broken treaties, promises, and boundaries.  The historical markers conveniently never seem to mention these facts.  But they do seem to note the Indian raids and other atrocities committed by the natives who were just trying to counter the loss of their lands.  So, here's a few of the examples we saw of those naughty Indians causing all sorts of troubles for the whites who were entitled to their lands.