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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 Stat!es 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 expresse
l 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" My belief is that for some reason the full extent and history of the treatment of the Native Americans has been covered up and even "touched up" by many to make it look not as bad as it is. It is who holds the pen that writes the history, thus I believe that it is needed for the plight of the Native Americans at least be written or looked over by them. Knowledge is power and the learning of mistakes is the key to avoiding them in the future. It can't be justified in any way that the U.S. treatment towards Native Americans wasn't Genocide on our part. Not only did we seize their land, and kill their people, we robbed their future generations of their culture, heritage, and in the end their spirit. ell victim to the diseases that was brought here by the "white man". 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
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