Until
1649, the Huron Nation were a mighty Indian tribe, unafraid to use overwhelming
violent force to take or raid the better hunting and trapping grounds of nearby
Indian tribes who were not strong enough to withstand them.
For hundreds of years, from their vastness in Canada, the mighty
Huron tribe had ranged deeply into rich hunting grounds that would become
Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and
Ohio. But a now familiar combination of factors resulted in their
loss of power, a retreat back into Canada, and a resulting cascade of westward
Indian migration that did not end until 250 years later, when the very last
battles of the Indian Wars played out on the Great Plains in what is today
Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
Beaten by imported cholera; smallpox; and an ad hoc alliance of
lesser tribes, themselves the products of desperate starvation, loss of
homeland, and mechanical pressure emanating outward from growing European settlement
on the east coast, the year 1649 marked the defeated Huron Nation's inability
to project violent force beyond their original tribal base around the eastern
Great Lakes in what is today southeastern Canada. It marked the beginning of their
tactical retreat.
So in 1649, as the surviving Hurons retracted northward and
westward, eventually southward, the demographic dominos really began to fall,
as they already had along the east coast for the previous fifty years, but
now en masse. One by one, two by two, smaller or
lesser known Indian tribes in the Great Lakes region began to migrate westward
and southward, pushed by those coming up from behind. One tribe
displaced another along its southwestern migration path, with new tribes
emerging and some old tribes merging. Some tribes were stamped out
in genocidal raids. Historically, Indians colonized and occupied
each other, and they always migrated because of "economic"
circumstances.
The Oglala Sioux and the poverty-stricken, fish-eating Cheyenne (Tsi-Tsi-Tas in
their own language) had emerged onto the Great Plains from the Minnesota lake
district with a finely honed hunger for survival and unoccupied open
spaces. We know them today as the most dominant and warlike of all
the western Indians, but the truth is that they were simply of the few Indian
tribes most determined to survive and prosper out of the 250-year stream of
refugees fleeing ahead of the shockwave. When we see magnificent and
inspirational pictures of brave Plains Indians mounted on their war ponies,
totally free on the prairies, we are not looking at thousands of years of
cultural evolution. Rather, the horseback Indian is a modern creation
of America and Europe.
On the southern plains, migrating Indians on foot had encountered
the remainders of once domesticated Spanish conquistador horses, subsequently
gone wild and feral since the 1600s. By the 1750s, herds of wild
mustangs were being captured, broken, and ridden by
Indians. Comanches, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, and many others used
these new horses to keep pace with bison herds, to fight each other, and
eventually to face off with mounted U.S. cavalry.
So in 1649 there was a demographic shock, a vacuum, and then an
explosion that marked the fragmentation and full-throated shift of Indian
tribal power in the east, until the surviving results of their waves of
westward migration then turned and fought the Bluecoats at the Washita and
Little Big Horn in the 1880s.
The history lesson here is that already by 1630, European migratory
settlement on the east coast had started a cascading migratory effect that
ended only when the Oglala Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and Arapahoe were herded onto
"reservations" and spirit-starved of any remaining patriotic vigor
and will to fight in the 1890s.
This leads us to the practical
lesson here: the uncontrolled mass migration invasion into America that we are
witnessing right now is really nothing new. Mass migration has been
constant in America, started by the American Indians themselves, with
subsequent migrants coming from all around the globe. The recent hostile migration is illegal according to a
"peace treaty" of sorts that the two major political tribes
negotiated years ago, but that "treaty" has now been openly violated
and broken. Today's mass migration into America is being
orchestrated primarily by one political "tribe" in order to gain
political power over the other political "tribe," and over everyone
else living in America, too. And once that power is gained, the
illegal invader political tribe will use the coercive force of official
government to wrest whatever control over the citizens they desire, to compel
us to live as they believe we should. Needless to say, that particular tribe
does not believe in any of the founding agreements that created America, like
the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.
You don't like
this? Don't feel like being a demographic refugee in your own
land? Then act like an Indian: project your force, and protect your
land. Because in fact, your back is already up against the
wall. Many of us just don't know it yet, don't know how dire things
are. Many of us are a bit too materially comfortable and complacent
to recognize our actual situation.
Then again, maybe we do just
want to live on political reservations, to go where we are told to go, think
what we are told to think, do as we are told to do. It seems easier
than messy freedom and personal liberty, doesn't it?