I get your point, but where does hostililly taking a nation from the American Indians fall into that? Forcing them onto reservations, killing their food supply, killing their babes, killing their culture, their religion and killing their spirits as best possible and providing "reservations" for them to live on. Ever consider that the American people are currently undergoing what the American Indian did 400 years ago? Anyone think this isn't a spiritual battle? We're fighting the exact same demons the Indians did

Some of the indians were good. Some of them were evil.

I live near the Jed Smith National Redwood Forest and the Smith River. I've read his biography and he was an amazing man, a deep Christian, and a natural born leader. Very few realize that he was instrumental in opening the way for the pioneers to come west and open the west up so we had one country from sea to shining sea... He found the passage the wagons would take to come to the west - his adventures were beyond remarkable!

I LIVE where National Parks and areas are named for him. I'm a teacher - and NONE of the students here, or their parents, or even the locals who have lived here their whole life...none of them know who Jed Smith was or what he did. And they live here with his name plastered all over the area...

Schools dumb children down, purposefully...we are losing our heritage and the role models that created wonderful Americans.

Wow....I was born and raised in the valley in Southern Oregon...which isn't far from there...and I had no idea about Jedediah Smith! Fascinating!

Make no mistake that dumbing down and deleting our real history is on purpose.