No, what started it was this meme:
Okay, wow. That meme went right over your head, didn't it?
The pre-colonial natives modern-culturally get a 'pass' for all the fucked up shit they do because the bad parts are buried and sanitized when you learn about them in school.
That's the message of the meme.
Hence the 'oh poor blue Avatar boys looking so pitiable and nobly enduring the slings of fate.' Pre-colonial natives are portrayed as the noble, harmoniously living with nature, super chads of awesome and virtue.
But once you read first hand accounts instead of the very sanitized accounts and
actually learn about the pre-colonial natives: 'Well, time to yee fucking haw over all of them there savages and bring them civilization!'
Where did I claim this? I only brought this up because of the bit about treaties, because the US government had a treaty with the Lakota to keep Americans out of our lands, which were defined and agreed upon, and yet no attempt was ever made to do so.
The US had a treaty with
Canada and
Mexico in the same time period to stay out of their lands, defined and agreed upon, and no attempt was ever made to do so.
Worse happened to the 'Five Civilized Tribes' when the Treaty done with them was
completely ignored resulting in the Trail of Tears. And
that was the precedent that lead to ignoring the Treaty with the Lakota and basically every plains tribe.
The Lakota aren't special. Manifest Destiny was fucking awful to just about anyone who wasn't white or, funnily enough, black.
And I also find it incredibly dubious that the Lakota never betrayed their word and raided villages and towns they swore not to.
Especially other tribes, let alone white settlers.
They were a tribal warrior culture. Not keeping your word and raiding each other
was the norm.
I mean the Ojibwe peoples called them 'little snakes' before it mutated through French and then got shortened to Sioux. You get called a snake, a rattlesnake specifically, for a reason.
And given what tribal warfare is like it's probably because the Lakota were aggressive and untrustworthy assholes to outsiders, just like every other tribe that ever existed.
The Ojibwe were probably untrustworthy assholes
too. Because that's what tribal peoples almost universally
are to outsiders.
Cannibalism is even more taboo among Natives than it is among white folks.
Then it must extra
mean something that the eastern most Iroquois tribe was still actively called Cannibals by the Algonquin when white people showed up.
Pfft! People call us Sioux all the time. Where do you think that name came from?
It's a shortening of a French bastardization of the Ojibwe word for 'little snakes.' Specifically 'little rattlesnakes.' Aggressive and 'saber rattling' would fit any number of warrior tribal nations.
[Lakota/Dakota means 'ally' btw, it isn't anymore your tribe's name than Sioux is. The nation they belonged to was the Seven Council Fires. Where each tribe was Lakota to the other.]
It could also be derived from an Algonquin word meaning something like 'speaker of a foreign language.'
[Current Ojibwe term for the Sioux is Bwaanag/'Roosters' and that's presumably more related to culinary manners as a touchstone.]
There is a big difference between calling your enemy 'little snake' because they were aggressive and untrustworthy assholes, calling your other main enemy 'big snakes' (the Iroquois in general were called this by the Ojibwe) because they were even more aggressive and even bigger untrustworthy assholes, and calling them
Cannibal.
Which according to you was an
immensely huge taboo, even more than among Europeans.
You
don't call people that willy nilly in
either culture group. Not without
evidence.
And that is a huge, huge,
huge deal in comparison to being called a snake. Magnitude worse,
easily.
Maybe the Mohawk cleaned up after getting gang banged by everyone for being man-eaters, but they had to have done it enough to
warrant calling them that.
In any case, this is all missing the point, which has already been made multiple times.
The point that we culturally and scholastically memory hole all the awful things Indigenous peoples did to
each other and to early white settlers and how it
isn't bashing to bring up that they did fucked up shit and how learning that they did fucked up shit might
drastically change how you view the Indigenous people?
The point you keep arguing against with counter-points that boil down to 'oh the whites were assholes to my tribe! So that means that bringing up what awful people they were is bashing!'? Might as well 'reeeeeee' about how it's racist next.
Which in no way shape or form doesn't mean that the awful shit the Lakota did get up to against other pre-colonial natives, and later white settlers didn't happen.
Yeah. A bad turn happened to the Lakota. Absolutely. They did not deserve what happened to them. I am
with you there. But bad things happening
to the Lakota
does not mean the Lakota did not
do bad things to other people.