@Ryder ; Don't keep up with much family nowadays. I am the "black sheep" ... moving south and being a "farmer".... doesn't fit the mindset of the main group of family of achieving more as far as financial gains etc..... they've all gotten away from the "down to earth" types... and the founding side was my mom's and lost touch with most all them years ago.
Don't care much about the witches of today.... my dad's side has some Mohawk, and I always leaned towards that part of my heritage, but they never encouraged it much, and I have decided to just be who I am and what I am comfortable with. No one to carry on my branch because son never married and no kids of his own, sisters 2 kids have no interest in anything "natural or earthy" .... one brother has 1 daughter getting married this year in her 30's.... don't see kids there and other brother's daughter died at 18 from a rare infection, and son is incarcerated and will never get out I hear. Have had no contact with him in years....
Sad situation... but it is what it is.
My point of all that was that there have always been conquerors and the conquered...there have been slaves of different races all throughout history.... and at the time, people fought for, and died for, what they believed in and what they understood.... and right for them is not necessarily right for today.... but it does not diminish that many who did what they did was because they believed that it was what was best for them and for their loved ones.
I am not saying slavery was right, I am not saying burning "suspected witches" was right.... but except for the ones that were trying to cruelly put people down, most did what they truly thought was right for themselves and those they were close to and responsible for.
I will be but a few words on a page of some forgotten record one day. I hope that I will have made a small contribution to the betterment of the land.