Did Europeans Steal America from the Indians?
BOOK REVIEW
Not Stolen: The Truth about European Colonialism in the New World
By Jeff Flynn-Paul (Bombardier Books, 2023). Softcover, 397 pp.
Reviewed by Michael Hoffman
Not Stolen is a unique, though embryonic, defense of the European-American enterprise of discovery and settlement. It is not an academic book. It is intended as a popular work for the masses. Its thesis is correct: generally speaking with some exceptions, indigenous Americans were not above ritually torturing, murdering, kidnapping, brutally enslaving and even eating their fellow Natives in rival tribes.
The notion that Ithaca, New York’s Cornell University (and a hundred other institutions of higher learning equally contested), is situated on land “stolen from Native people” is a hoax, given that in the case of Ithaca, the Iroquois themselves expropriated the land from other tribes.
The benighted omission of the history of Native American civil wars is the foundation upon which the cries for Cornell to be “returned” to the Iroquois (to cite one instance), are put forth. Lost in the folds of dainty political correctness are the facts of the ferocious inter-tribal warfare of the Natives...
Read more at:
https://michaelhoffman.substack.com/p/did-europeans-steal-america-from
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