John E. Rylander wrote:
>> In the USA, there seems to be a feeling that because of Christian
>> genocide against Indians over 400 years, they should get some special
>> consideration. Here in California they used to round up Indians, baptize
>> them, and shoot them.
>Is there a good source for that claim? I.e., not that it happened once or
>something (no surprise there), but that that was some sort of policy or
>routine occurrence??
Sorry, I just spent a little time unsuccessfully looking for my books
on California history, with eyewitness accounts of such things. Church
sanction was not involved, just the judgment of racist frontiersmen who
had some odd religious notions.
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com
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