Post #3060716
2026-05-24 14:23 UTC
Idk, I personally don't find it hard to believe cruel and warlike individuals can also be caring and considerate of disabled people 🤷♀️ People are complex and situational, after all, and no one in real life is all good or all bad. I guess a lot of white people (or “White Eyes” as Apache groups called them) were/are too inundated in racism and a flat good vs. evil worldview to apply that kind of nuance to Indigenous people.
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@ljwrites@writeout.ink 2026-05-27 12:50
❝ The Apaches quickly scattered, splitting into three groups. [Aravaipa band leader] Beto instructed the novice to draw a line across their trail and say, “Let no one pass over this.” A little farther on he was instructed to do this again and again, until he had done it four times. In this way they escaped the pursuing White Eyes. . . . [Lieutenant] Bascom, a promising young officer from Kentucky who had graduated from West Point in 1858, followed an Apache trail headed northeast toward Apache Pass, but then lost it and returned to the fort. ❞ – From Chapter 3 of #TheApacheWars by Paul Andrew Hutton #amReading #Indigenous #history