I think you've got it backwards...

I would say that the Native Americans were the Freedom Fighters, trying to
win back their land from the Oppressive colonialists. However, because we
won that war, for the next 150-200 years, American Indians were portrayed
in US History books and media as scary, stupid mostrosities who gave away
their land for a few beads and fur pelts, and then terrorized frontiersmen
and their families by taking their scalps in the dead of night, for
"absolutely no reason at all".

Had the Indians been able to repel the Colonialists, their history books
would have written of the events and of the characterizations of the people
of the time very differently.

I can't go through and cite every single example of terrorists in history.
And I can't quantify to what level innocent people were killed by
terrorists in wars. I'm not a history expert or even a history buff.

All I can tell you is that it seems to me that the current Arab Terrorist
tactics are working, and there is not much I can think of to do about it,
except perhaps to call upon our "allies" in the Arab Nations to stop
supporting them and harboring them or suffer a price. But the thought of
"keeping our nose out of other country's business" as suggested by a prior
poster, is repulsive because I don't want to go down in history as a member
of the Fallen Imperialist Bush Empire.


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I bet the British at the time would have disagreed with you. I am
certain they believed the American rebels / freedom fighters were
terrorists.

Just as they believed that the Israeli freedom fighters were
terrorists in 1948.

Just as the they believe the IRA are terrorists...

Basically, when history finds a band of rebels or oppressed people who
fought their way to freedom, they war is called a War of Independence.

When they were suppressed, the war is called a rebellion, an uprising,
or a failed coup-de-tat...

The biggest difference that I can see is that the war for American
Independence took place in America.

So what of the native Americans. After all the so called Freedom
fighters were the colonialists. They secured independence and then
began a genocidal assault on the native Americans.
Perhaps the raiding parties and attacks by the Indians were the natives
trying to secure their rights to live their lives in peace.

Maybe that does not count?