… Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men who do the rough pioneer work of civilization in barbarous lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. actions toward American Indians were part of the larger, noble endeavor of European colonialism:Īll men of sane and wholesome thought must dismiss with impatient contempt the plea that these continents should be reserved for the use of scattered savage tribes. In a subsequent book, “The Winning of the West,” Roosevelt explained that U.S. One lieutenant stated in a congressional investigation that “I heard that the privates of White Antelope had been cut off to make a tobacco bag out of.” … Kill and scalp all, big and little nits make lice.” Soldiers later reported that after killing men, women, and children, they mutilated their bodies for trophies. John Chivington, who famously said, “I have come to kill Indians. Miles, an officer who eventually became the Army’s top general, wrote in his memoirs that it was “perhaps the foulest and most unjustifiable crime in the annals of America.” It was in every way comparable to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. The Sand Creek massacre had occurred 22 years previously in the Colorado Territory, wiping out a village of over 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho people. That same year Roosevelt published a book in which he wrote that “the so-called Chivington or Sandy Creek Massacre, in spite of certain most objectionable details, was on the whole as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier.” Take three hundred low families of New York and New Jersey, support them, for fifty years, in vicious idleness, and you will have some idea of what the Indians are. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. In an 1886 speech in New York, he declared: This led him to spend large amounts of time in Montana and the Dakotas in the years just before they became states in 1889.ĭuring this period, Roosevelt developed an attitude toward Native Americans that can fairly be described as genocidal. While in his twenties, Roosevelt invested a significant percentage of this money in the cattle business out west. When his father died while Roosevelt was attending Harvard, he inherited the equivalent of about $3 million today. Roosevelt was born in 1858 to a wealthy New York City family.
“That’s good for the consumer,” Walter said. There were, for instance, 10 window companies at previous shows. Walters said that even as the Orange County show grows, many of the companies that show organizers had worked with in the past have gone out of business. “And if you don’t like their product or service,” he added, “you can just move on to the next booth.” At least here, you’re face-to-face with the sellers. “You open the phone book and you don’t know where to start. “We seem to have fewer and fewer options out there outside of Lowes and Home Depot,” he said. People such as Jonathan Jeffries, 68, of Fountain Valley, looking to replace his home heating and air conditioning and to redo his landscaping. “It gives our vendors a chance to speak directly with people who are looking to do home improvements.”
“We figured that people don’t pay to browse at the mall, and this is the same concept,” Walters said.
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