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发帖数: 2456 | 1 印第安人Ute people的悲惨史。
—— 读 Black Hawk War (1865–72) 有感。
来围观一下Bear River大屠杀
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Massacre
the Mormon settlers in Cache Valley expressed their gratitude for "the
movement of Col. Connor as an intervention of the Almighty" in their behalf.
Circleville屠杀，居然被称为“Incident”
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/american_indians/circ
战争结局，摩门教徒可以大胆西进犹它的时候，也是Ute的悲剧：
Black Hawk's War was a disaster for the Northern Utes. They were forced
permanently onto the Uintah Reservation to live dependent on corrupt
government agents. No promises made in any treaty were fulfilled completely.
Terms of treaties which restricted the Utes were rigidly enforced, but
promises in the treaty which territorial officials and Mormon leaders put
their names to were largely ignored. Intra-tribal divisions arose which
persisted to modern times. The Ute were forced to give up their traditional
way of life and left to fend for themselves in one of the least habitable
parts of Utah. Disease, living conditions, hopelessness, alcoholism, and
poverty reduced Ute populations drastically. While it is difficult to
estimate moving populations, Dimick Huntington, an interpreter for the
territorial government, estimated that there were perhaps 23,000 Native
Americans in Utah in 1865. In 1872 he estimated the number at 10,000. While
these numbers seem exaggerated to modern historians, it indicates that the
period took a terrible toll on the Utes. Not everyone in those estimates
died, many simply moved out of the territory, but the number of deaths by
disease, starvation, and the war was catastrophic for Northern Utes. Ute
population continued the steep decline, so that as of this writing (2008)
there are 3,120 Northern Utes enrolled, up from 2500 in 1980.
今天的摩门教，在宣扬爱爱爱爱的同时，是不是也应该对欠下血债的Ute People做一些
补偿？ |
