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Like this resolution, Masons brag about being founding fathers, military leaders, Presidents and all that.

But how did these men feel about the American Indians?

George Washington, Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22

Indians were defined as sub humans, lower than animals. George Washington compared them to wolves, "beasts of prey" and called for their total destruction. George Washington's troops skinned Native Americans like animals. Apparently his first agenda item as President was the extermination of the Native Americans.


President James Monroe: Williamsburg Lodge No. 6, Williamsburg, Virginia

During Monroe's administration, the United States acquired Florida from Spain, and U.S. troops fought against the Seminole Native Americans there.

Andrew Jackson: Harmony Lodge No. 1, Nashville, Tennessee; Grand Master 1822-23, Tennessee

Andrew Jackson - in 1814:

"supervised the mutilation of 800 or more Creek Indian corpses - the bodies of men, women and children that [his troops] had massacred - cutting off their noses to count and preserve a record of the dead, slicing long strips of flesh from their bodies to tan and turn into bridle reins."

Jackson was also responsible for the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears.

In 1867, General William Tecumseh Sherman, a Mason, said:

"We must act with vindictive earnestness against the [Lakotas, known to whites as the Sioux] even to their extermination, men, women and children."

In 1891, Frank L. Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz" and Mason, wrote in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer that the army should "finish the job" by the "total annihilation" of the few remaining Indians, calling those yet to be extinguished:

"a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians."

To his credit, according to a South Dakota Public Broadcasting report, some of Baum's descendants felt it important to continue to look at those genocidal statements and apologized to the Wounded Knee Survivors Association.

And what of the black direction?

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It is much worse than that... a quote from Albert Pike by Lisa Long on Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007 at 6:38:11 PM
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