THE BOOK OF
OTHERS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF BASTARDS
The Indians never had a chanceThe Africans never had a chance
Chapter 5
The North American Indians never had a chance.
2The Cherokee and the Seminoles and the Blackfeet and the Sioux and the Apaches and the Cheyenne and all the rest didn’t want any monuments and temples made of stone,
3Because they’d never learned to be civilized.
4aInstead, they tried to live in harmony with nature,
5bAnd all they really wanted was to be left alone,
6cTo do things their own way,
7Which wasn’t hurting anybody,
8dUntil the Yanks decided that they needed all the land in North America,
9eJust because they wanted it,
10Which is always a good enough reason for a Chosen Nation to do whatever it wants to.
11And so the Yanks lied to the Indians,
12fAnd stole from them,
13And killed them when they objected to the lies and stealing,
14And decided the Indians were savages,
15gBecause the only thing they wanted was what they already had,
16Before it got taken from them,
17Forever.
18Poor bastards.
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