Native American Abuse
Imagine your country had been invaded by a very powerful group of people. Before anything drastic could be done these people had invaded your shores and had creeping inward upon your land. At first they acted with scorn and called us names and disrespect. After several groups of our people revolted against these invaders they decided to negotiate certain terms with us. Then after thinking all was well many of these agreements were broken and they started to ship us like freight to areas where they could hold a lot of our kind while they abuse and take over our country/land. We tried to fight back but it was useless, we were at their strong army's demise. It is sad that such atrocities were done to perform an act of genocide on our people. Though you might assume this is an excerpt from a Jew during the holocaust those oppressed are Native Americans and the "cruel invaders" are none other than the U.S. Government and Army. While many revere (including ourselves) the United States as a "world superpower" and a role model to other countries is it so quickly forgotten of our own Holocaust? "(Actually there are two; one killing 40 to 60,000,000 Africans, and one killing 100,000,000 Native Red Peoples)." Hitler himself often exp
Although many knew we came here uninvited and seized their land many are unaware the means of cultural destruction of Native Americans, which began no later than 1611. This method was one of those that included the forced removal of children from their culture and enrollment of these children in "educational programs," which were intended to instill more "European" beliefs. In 1820, the United States made plans for a large-scale system of boarding and day schools. These schools were given the mission to, "instruct its students in "letters, labor and mechanical arts, and morals and Christianity;" training many Indian leaders. In 1886, it was decided, by the United States federal government that Native American tribal groups would no longer be treated as 'indigenous national governments.' The decision was made, not by the conjoint efforts of the Native American tribes and Congress, but by the United States Legal System. This allowed Congress to pass a variety of other laws, directed towards assimilating Native Americans, so that they would become a part of "mainstream white America" Native Americans did not understand European ideology. Native Americans had no idea why the Europeans could fight for land, "Death makes us owners of nothing is what the Native Americans believed. They also couldn't understand on how one person or group can "own" land since they couldn't "own the sky". It is this ideology and peaceful manner of most Native Americans that made them the per
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