Native American Genocide

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not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own �genocide� except theirs wasn�t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day.
That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom the college and the Massachusetts town are named, had sent disease-bearing blankets as "peace offerings" to a hostile Indian tribe near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, triggering an epidemic. The blankets had covered the bodies of white victims of smallpox, a now extinct but then lethal disease that in its time killed millions all over the world. Motivation for the deadly gift to the Indians-then and during the following century ...

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here before whites arrived. The white settlers killed most of the Indians on the continent, and massively stole from the rest. Every acre of what is now the United States was once part of some Indian nation. Some of the Iroquois tribes have been living in the northern United States for at least 5,000 years. In the Southwest, the Hopi Indians are estimated to have been living in what is now called the Four Corners area (the junction of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) for at least 10,000 years. (Some archeologists have lately put the Hopi arrival as long ago as 40,000 years. The Hopi themselves say, as do many Indian nations, that they did not "arrive" at all, that their genesis was ...

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