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Were the American Indians "terrorists"
I got to thinking about this the other day - whenever terrorism is brought up someone will often try to say "Well, by such and such definition, Geroge Washington and the rest of the American revolutionaries were terrorist". This rapidly degenerates into a "how dare you suggest something so traitorous" and "my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather fought and died in 1776 so you could call him a terrorist on the internet" type thread.
So, leaving that mess aside, and trying to determine if terrorism existed in American (And that can be Canada, Brazil, Mexico, etc, too in this case) history, were the American Indians terrorists at one point? They launched surprise attacks on civilians, killed and tortured them, were not part of a true "nation" or "army" - by a lot of definitions that people throw around, the American Indian would be a terrorist.
What think you?
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