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Manifest Destiny Diverted

March 4th, 2010

Reading James Fenimore Cooper has made me want to write an alternate history of the United States. Yes, I am proud to be an American. No, I am not proud of some of this country’s past and present. I want to write an alternate history piece in which the Native Americans won the initial strings of battles for the conquest of their land. They were the rightful owners and did not view it that way. I also want to give them extraordinary medical capabilities so they can become immune to the diseases that are spread both intentionally and unintentionally. I want their children to live, and never for them to be hanged in the number of thirteen. This will happen once and only once. The great spirit will show its dark side. The natives will use their immense knowledge of their own terrain to outsmart the assailants and steal their weapons. This is the story that would have been written as history if someone could have warned them. No, they befriended the whites and helped them survive. The same goes for the Spaniards who read them a proclamation in Spanish which they “had no hope of understanding” (Source: Corporate Avenger.)
and in effect meant this. There are several translations and this is the one in the Corporate Avenger song.
“We ask and require you to acknowledge the church as the ruler and
superior of the whole world and the high priest called pope and in his
name the king of Spain as lords of this land. If you submit we shall
receive you in all love and charity and shall leave you, your wives and
children and your lands free without servitude, but if you do not submit
we shall powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against
you, we shall take you and your wives and your children and shall make
slaves of them and we shall take away your goods and shall do you all
the harm and damage we can.”
I want the Natives to win. I think our society would have been more peaceful and moral had this land never been stolen. The great civilaization that already existed in North America.

This is 100% true and so are the gruesome details (which I will post here) in the song (which I won’t post here. Instead I’ll give you a different song so no one gets offended. Here’s the gruesome details.

“The Spaniards made bets as to who would slit a man in two or cut of
his head with one blow. They tore babies from their mother’s breast by
their feet and dashed their head against the rocks. They hanged Indians
by thirteen in honor and reverence for their redeemer and their twelve
apostles. They put wood underneath and with fire burned the Indians
alive.”

This time around the natives would be able to defend themselves because there will be a Paul Revere type in the natives who discovers the plan for conquest initially. This causes the tribes of America to unite in battle as one tribe.
Another Corporate Avenger song (Evolved) states
(I would indent but this is a post)

“Indians are not chinamen, some books contain lies.
If man had evolved from apes, there would be no more apes.
It has been said and written over and over again that the first north
Americans crossed on a land bridge from asia into the north America due to
exposed land which occured during the low sea levels of the last ice age.
It has been said that there is no historic record of these early pioneers the
last of which crossed supposedly at 10,000 years ago, even though great
civilizations, with great structures already existed in north and South America.

If man had evolved from apes, there would be no more apes.
Oh, the truth feels good.
All this is quoted as fact with absolutely no consideration to the common
sense notion that as an ice age recedes it does so from the warmest parts of
the earth around the equator, to the north and to the south towards poles.
This grear land bridge theory subliminally suggest that the people who were
native to this land were not native at all but mere descendants of immigrants.
If man had evolved from apes, there would be no more apes.
Oh, the truth feels good. ”

I would like to take this interpretation of the history so I can emphasize the strength of all of the tribes conjoined. It is their great civilization. North America will help South America and vice versa to eradicate the genocidal, parasitic and destructive evil from the face of their great union that requires no laws, boundaries, or borders. This land does not rely on treaties that become broken but on mutual respect and symbiotic relationships. This inner strength will assure the ultimate victory of the natives. They are no longer cornered or isolated. Sure they lose some battles but they have enough immunized men to fight forever! The battle is on!

I do not think war is right but I do believe that self- defense is a God given right to every organism on this planet.
(My main focus is making my story as realistic as possible this time around. The sole basis is not morality or absurdity. It is an alternate reality.) The link below where the text is underlined and talks about the RATM video is a link to the Gutenberg text detailing the initial destruction inflicted upon the natives.



This video will also inspire the unity in my story. It is from a period that is a later time than my story, but it serves well to reflect the attitude and brotherhood a battle of this magnitude would require.