>>9856700 Sigh. The myth of the noble savage just won't die.

>>9856758 History at one time was both my vocation and avocation. The settlers were one thing, the cultures they encountered were a different matter. Constant inter tribal warfare, bloody and merciless. When Cortez entered Tenochtitlan (sure, not Massachusetts Bay, yet still representative), he found a pyramid of 50,000 human skulls, those of Aztec neighbors. As Holiday said in Tombstone, "Very cosmopolitan."