400 years of genocide! The truth about the massacre of 5 million Indians by the U.S. government
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400 years of genocide! The truth about the massacre of 5 million Indians by the U.S. government
In February 2022, the American Indian Shoshone Tribe filed a severe complaint against the U.S. government. In the past half century, the U.S. government has carried out as many as 928 operations in the Shoshone Tribe area through deception and coercion. Nuclear test !
This place is called “the place on earth that has been bombed by the most atomic bombs” by the American media. The Shoshone tribe, which has only 30,000 direct descendants, has already killed thousands of people from nuclear tests, developmental malformations, leukemia and cancer. common diseases in this “nuclear testing ground”.
And this Indian tragedy is by no means an exception.
The Navajo Nation of the southwestern United States, the largest indigenous group in North America, has long been systematically used as a dumping ground for toxic or nuclear waste by the United States. According to a 2016 CDC report, about a quarter of this tribe is One woman had high concentrations of radioactive substances in her body, and a carcinogen, radioactive uranium, was also found in the urine of the newborn baby.
Perhaps in less than a hundred years, these Indian tribes will disappear from the map of the United States, and with them, there may be evidence of blood and tears of American slaughter of Indians in the past few centuries.
As American historians say, “ Every frontier of the United States was obtained through a series of wars against the Indians. “ Massacre, expulsion, assimilation, and extermination, the history of American development is a “blood and tears of the Indians.” history”.
More than 1,500 brutal massacres, forced sterilization of Indian women, and persecution of “civilized” Indian children are just a microcosm of the tragic fate of the Indians for hundreds of years.
As the natives of the American continent, the Indian population dropped from more than 5 million at the end of the 15th century to 200,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, and almost disappeared. Even today, they are still facing a serious existential crisis.
In this issue, we will use the tragic experiences of the Indians for hundreds of years to uncover the hypocrisy of American human rights , the history of blood and tears of the Indians in the history of American sins, and start off.
Bloody “Mayflower”
In 1492, when Columbus first landed in America, he mistakenly thought he had arrived in India, so he called the natives of this continent “Indians”.
130 years later, the Mayflower, carrying 102 British people, sailed into Cape Cod (now Massachusetts, USA) and broke into this isolated American continent.
However, America’s harsh natural environment soon taught these uninvited guests a lesson. Almost half of the colonists did not survive the first winter because of the cold weather and lack of food.
At this time, the Indians as aboriginal people extended a helping hand, sent food to these European whites, and taught them how to go to sea to fish, go ashore to farm, how to identify poisonous food, and how to avoid wild animals and many other survival skills.
With the help of the Indians, these European whites survived hard in North America and ushered in a bumper harvest the following year, so they held a grand celebration, which was later an important traditional festival in the United States. — The origin of Thanksgiving.
Indians who helped them were also invited to the celebration, and together they thanked God for their food. Yes, you heard that right, they thank God, not the Indians.
In this way, with the help of the Indians, the survivors of the “Mayflower” successfully established settlements in North America, and sold tobacco leaves, cocoa, coffee, etc. unique to the Americas to Europe, accumulating a lot of wealth. , the huge profits also attracted more white European immigrants, and the nightmare of the Indians began!
For a long time, the Indians of North America lived as tribes, without the concept of nation.
With more and more immigrants from Europe, the two sides began to disagree on territorial issues. In order to obtain more land, these white colonists did not hesitate to take up arms and pull the trigger on the Indians who had helped them.
Of course, the colonists’ pressing step by step also aroused the resistance of the Indians, but because of the scattered tribes and backward weapons and equipment, the Indians were quickly defeated.
Many aborigines became captives, the European colonists sold the captured young and middle-aged as slaves, and most of the children and the elderly were executed. Moreover, after massacred Indians, the European colonists also developed a perverted habit, and they held another Thanksgiving. In addition to eating and drinking, this Thanksgiving also held a football game, but they were not playing football, but the heads of Indians.
The atrocities of European colonists led to organized resistance by the Indians, and in 1675 the colonists were devastated, and 50 of the 90 settlements were wiped out.
However, the good times did not last long. As more and more European immigrants joined in, the Indians soon fell behind again, and the colonists launched more brutal persecutions against the Indians.
Marx recorded in Capital:
“The Puritans of New England, in their Legislative Assembly in 1703, decided to give a bounty of £40 for every scalp (scalp) or capture of an Indian; in 1720, every scalp was The bounty was raised to £100… The British Parliament had declared that killing and scalping were “means given to it by God and Nature”.
What’s even more frustrating is that in order to weaken the strength of the Indian tribes, the white colonists gave the Indians blankets and bedding with viruses such as chickenpox and malaria as gifts, causing infectious diseases to rage in North America, the Indian population plummeted, and each tribe decreased. 25%-50% of the population, and some smaller tribes have even been wiped out due to infectious diseases.
Florida had 700,000 natives in 1520, but by 1700 fewer than 2,000 remained. The enormous lethality of infectious diseases has plunged the Indians into deep fear and despair.
Until the independence of the United States, the slaughter of Indians did not stop, so after the founding of the United States, what was waiting for the Indians?
Westward Movement
In 1783, the United Kingdom officially recognized the independence of the United States, and this also became the beginning of the Indians’ complete fall into the abyss.
A government-led, centuries-long genocide began. Almost all of the American Founding Fathers had a stake in the massacre of Indians.
The commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, the first president of the United States, Washington, had instructed his troops: “ Do not heed any advice for peace until all Indian reservations have been effectively destroyed. “
Washington even taught soldiers, “ To peel the skin of an Indian corpse, from the buttocks down, to make high or leg-length boots. “
The drafter of the American Declaration of Independence and the third president, Thomas Jefferson, who once proposed that “all men are created equal”, was an out-and-out “executioner” for the Indians.
Thomas Jefferson
In 1803, after the United States purchased Louisiana from France, it began the “famous” westward movement. During this period, the mass expulsion and massacre of Indians began with President Jefferson.
Since then, Americans have portrayed the Indians as pagans, savages who must be killed in the name of “civilization” and Christianity. Behind the pioneering, enterprising, and innovative American spirits shaped by the Westward Movement, the innocent blood of the Indians flows.
In 1814, the American James Madison government enacted a new decree: every time an Indian’s head cover was turned over, he would receive a bonus of 50–100 US dollars, while the average daily wage of American workers at that time was only 25 cents.
In 1862, Lincoln, regarded as one of the greatest presidents of the United States, promulgated the Homestead Act, which stipulated that every American citizen over the age of 21 could acquire a large piece of land in the West for only $10. Under the lure of the land, the slaughter of Indians reached a climax, and countless Indian villages turned into hell on earth overnight.
In the same year, Lincoln ordered 38 Indian chiefs to be hanged. There was no court debate and no judicial process. As the famous American General Sherman once said, “Only dead Indians are good Indians.”
The Homestead Act of 1862 by the Lincoln Administration
On November 29, 1864, due to the opposition of a small number of Indians to sign the land transfer agreement, the American pastor John Chivington led the army to massacre the Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. Almost all 200 tribal members were killed, three. Two-thirds of the dead were women or children, and they scalped these women and children and paraded through the streets.
According to incomplete statistics, after independence, the United States launched more than 1,500 killings on Indian tribes, and countless Indians died of atrocities, which directly led to the complete extinction of more than 10 tribes such as the Felquette, Mohican, and Massachusetts.
In the notorious Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Black Hawk War, and Wounded Knee Massacre, American armed soldiers carried out bloody massacres on the tribe with extremely cruel methods.
By the 1890s, the United States had largely achieved its “set goal” of exterminating the Indians. The Indian population plummeted from 5 million at the end of the 15th century to 250,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the most brutal genocide in history.
cultural genocide
“American Indians are alive, but a part of their heart is dead.”
After experiencing the physical genocide, at the end of the 19th century, the Indians entered the blood and tears process of cultural genocide.
The U.S. government openly declared that the Indians are a barbaric, evil, and inferior ethnic group, so they need the help of the United States to “civilize” them, and thousands of years of American civilization began to be obliterated.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the “Bison Policy” of the United States. A large number of bison lived in the Americas. This animal was the main source of life for the Indians. It not only provided food, but bison was also the main material for the clothes and tents of these aboriginals.
However, after the independence of the United States, the U.S. government defined the traditional living habits of the Indians for thousands of years as barbaric and bad habits. the source of life.
Under the leadership of the US government, in less than 20 years, the number of bison in North America has dropped sharply from more than 13 million to less than 1,000.
The disappearance of the bison forced the Indian tribes who had lost their source of necessities to give up their resistance and moved to the “reservation area” stipulated by the U.S. government. In the end, the “reservation area” became smaller and smaller, and became several small and barren pieces that were not connected to each other. soil of.
The U.S. government seems to provide food with good intentions, but it has an age limit. After the age limit, the Indians must make a living on the “reservation”.
However, the most fertile land in North America is in the hands of white people, and the grassland on the “reservation” is not suitable for agriculture, so the environment is deteriorating, and the Indians are getting poorer and poorer. No dignity at all.
In 1930, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs sterilized Indian women through the Indian Health Service program. These sterilizations were performed in the name of protecting the health of Indian women, and some were even performed without the women’s knowledge.
According to statistics, in the early 1970s, more than 42% of Indian women of reproductive age were sterilized. For many small tribes, this nearly led to the extinction of the entire tribe. As of 1976, some 70,000 Indian women were forcibly sterilized.
Beginning in 1819, the United States set up boarding schools across the country. Pastors, government officials and social workers took tens of thousands of Indian children between the ages of 5 and 18 from their homes and sent them to boarding schools forcibly.
Statistics show that there were 367 boarding schools in the United States in history. By 1925, 60,889 Indian children were forced to attend school; by 1926, the proportion of Indian children enrolled was as high as 83%.
Did someone say it’s not a good thing? Running schools can improve the educational level of Indians.
However, the truth of these Indian boarding schools is that they adhere to the concept of “erasing Indian culture”, prohibiting Indian children from speaking the national language, wearing national costumes, carrying out national activities, erasing their language, culture and identity, and carrying out cultural genocide.
Indian children suffered in school and died in part from starvation, disease and abuse.
Since then, the U.S. government has introduced a “forced foster care” policy, forcing Indian children to be raised by whites, continuing the assimilation policy, and depriving them of cultural identity. This phenomenon was not gradually banned until 1978.
The U.S. Congress also acknowledged that “a large number of Indian children have been transferred without permission to non-Indian families and institutions, resulting in the fragmentation of Indian families.”
There are reports that Native American children have suffered unfair treatment such as whipping, sexual abuse, forced labor and severe malnutrition in these Indian boarding schools, with countless deaths and injuries.
In the Canadian Indian boarding school scandal that broke out not long ago, the corpses of 215 Indian children were exhumed in just one school. It is hard to imagine the astronomical number of Indian children who died tragically in the United States.
Regarding the sterilization of Indian women by the US government and the sinful Indian boarding school, due to the limited space, we will talk about it here first. If you want to know more, we will dig deeper.
So what is the status of the Indians after centuries and a half of genocide?
According to statistics, there are still about 300 Indian reservations scattered in the remote areas of the United States. The survival of these reservations is by no means the result of the US government’s “soft-heartedness”, but the result of the Indians’ swearing resistance for hundreds of years.
However, even if they struggled to survive, most Indians on the reservation were in extreme poverty.
Indians have the highest rates of poverty, unemployment and teen suicide among all ethnic groups in the United States, while the average household income, education level and labor force participation rate are all the lowest.
They suffer from institutional discrimination in areas such as public health, education and justice. In 2017, only 19.6% of Indians over the age of 25 had a bachelor’s degree or above, far behind whites.
Their health status is equally worrying. Indians have a life expectancy 5.5 years lower than the average American life expectancy, and the incidence of diabetes, chronic liver disease and alcohol dependence are 3.2 times, 4.6 times and 6.6 times the US average, respectively.
Indians have the highest infant mortality rate of any ethnic group in the United States and are responsible for community cancer morbidity and mortality due to the systematic use of Indian reservations as dumping grounds for toxic waste, landfills, and nuclear weapons testing sites rate is significantly higher than that of other regions.
At the moment of the new crown, their situation is even more difficult. Statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the prevalence of new coronary pneumonia in Indians is 2.8 times that of whites, and the mortality rate is 1.4 times.
The infection rate of the new coronavirus in the Navajo Nation, the largest Indian reservation in the United States, once surpassed New York to become the first in the United States.
The United States prides itself on freedom and beacon. They shout that human rights are born and that all people are created equal. However, as “true Americans” born and raised, the Indians are brutally expelled, slaughtered, and forcibly assimilated. The political power, capital power and religious power of the United States share The huge chain of interests formed devoured the past and future of the Indians.
“ I live on this land, and this land no longer belongs to me. “ The Indians who once roamed freely on the grasslands have now become reserved, captive, neglected, lingering, and about to disappear. Keep race.
What American Indians have gone through is like a sad song. On the soil of the United States, this sad song belongs not only to the Indians, but also to the Mexicans, Africans, Chinese workers…
I have seen such a comment before — “The United States is so afraid of falling from the position of the boss because he will die the worst .” Similarly, the US government and the media have used the “human rights” stick to carry out aggressive actions against other countries. Smearing and slandering is nothing but a conjecture and projection based on one’s own dark history. I understand the applause.
Alright, that’s it for this issue, like 100,000 likes, the history of America’s sins stayed up late, this time for sure!
