Were they also not Communist or immediately post communist though? I agree with your larger point but Yugoslavia had been steeped in communism for 50yrs before that war. Hardly fertile soil for fostering a sense of human rights.
Undoubtedly living under Communism didn’t help the relationships in the former Jugoslavia. But one remembers reading that even back in Roman times, some of the fiercest legionnaires were recruited from what is now Croatia and Serbia.
The fear of Indians was real many years ago, even in my lifetime. When I was growing up, Indians were actually sort of romanticized. True, they sometimes chased the hero across deserts and even threatened the heroine. But by and large, they were heroic figures; majestic and speaking in sonorous, if broken, English.
But among older people it wasn’t so. As a little kid I used to go down to the creek below our house. the Ozarks was a primitive place then, and a lot of people didn’t have running water. We didn’t for quite awhile. But there were two old brothers; in their eighties somewhere, who used to come and dip water out of the creek to fill 55 gallon drums for their milk cows if their well went dry. They both lived on hilltops, so that happened now and then.
Anyway, I remember being told how, when they were little themselves, Indians would sometimes come up out of Oklahoma and dig some kind of mineral out of the ground about a quarter mile away, build big fires and seemingly smelt the metal or something. Might have been lead or zinc. Maybe a little silver which sometimes occurred with them. But regardless what they were doing, their family was very much afraid, and would leave the house at night and go sleep in the tall grass just in case. Back when those old gentlemen were kids, Indian wars were still very much within adult memory. And they weren’t pretty memories.
Those old brothers’ parents would have been alive during the Civil War, and the Cherokee under Stand Watie were on the Confederate side. And if a group of one of them crossed your path during that era, it might be too bad for you, no matter what side you were on.
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. Potentially, if the Native Americans or American Indians had the better weapons and military strategies, then it would have been the other way round. Same thing with slavery-instead of Whites enslaving Blacks it would have been the opposite, because it’s just the way people sadly are potentially. Yes, treatment of American Indians or Native Americans was haughty and wars were used to take their lands, only that have found the meaning of this ends up being ‘you did what we wanted to do and more’ and this makes 1 no better than what they say to be against. Incidentally, actress MelissaE Gilbert lives in Michigan and used to have implants.
thing to excuse.