Plundering a people’s food supply provokes violent revenge, not submission

Evidence

Page 120 dollar, and would not even give greenbacks for my English gold! Neither Mr. Buchan nor Evans could get a cent. Business is suspended, and everybody, however rich, is for the time being poor. The Indians have taken to the “war path,” and are burning ranches and killing cattle. There is a regular “scare” among the settlers, and wagon loads of fugitives are arriving in Colorado Springs. The Indians say, “The white man has killed the buffalo and left them to rot on the plains. We will be revenged.” — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 139

Categorization

• XREF: The bison-destruction grievance mirrors the Osage-orange/megafauna thread in the trees article — human hunting reshaping a whole ecology. — connects to: Ordinary people become destructive agents through duty, not hostility — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 606; Narrated victimhood, not raw emotion, drives revenge among the advantaged group.; Extractive theft without basic infrastructure delivery provokes rebellion — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 113 (+6 more)
• SEED: Angle: white settlement economy suspended by its own environmental crime — a frontier panic where the cash is worthless and the wildlife is gone.

Broader Connections

• Extractive theft without basic infrastructure delivery provokes rebellion #corroborates (0.99) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 113
• Ordinary people become destructive agents through duty, not hostility #complicates (0.95) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 606
• Excessive violence can backfire by triggering revenge and betrayal within criminal hierarchies #corroborates (0.95) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2218
• Evil actions usually stem from ordinary people caught in social forces, not evil individuals #corroborates (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3899
• Colonial classification of violence as private revenge dismissed assailants’ broader claims #complicates (0.90)
• Moral behaviour springs from the Other’s powerless demand, not from sanctions #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611
• Ordinary healthy people become cruel perpetrators under conducive social roles. #corroborates (0.90) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 681
• Narrated victimhood, not raw emotion, drives revenge among the advantaged group. #contradicts (0.85)
• Collective victimhood drives revenge more than reconciliation in both groups #complicates (0.85) — R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi, When the Advantaged Feel Victimised, 128