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'Never Forget - The Native American Genocides

Never Forget

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The Paper.

‘Never Forget’

Though these two words may mean nothing to you, to those whose ancestors perished by stake, drowning, flame, and other forms of torture during the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Native American Genocides, and countless other atrocities before and since these times; they are of utmost importance. ‘Never Forget’ is the rallying cry of all the native peoples driven to near extinction through genocide, both culturally and physically.

Man, more specifically the (mostly) Caucasian European nations, in the name of Christianity, has used domination, torture, slavery, and often total genocide of the original peoples to gain and keep control of the wealth and power they consider their right. In this way they have justified some of the most brutal slaughters in human history; from the wars of the late Roman Empire, to the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to world wars, and genocide against the heathen, heretic, Muslim, and Jew. The Holy Roman Catholic Church endorsed and/or orchestrated most of these — with the origins of these atrocities in their faulty or slanted interpretations of the teaching of Jesus.

To do nothing more than tally a list of all these atrocities would require a volume the size of War and Peace. On the North American continent alone, a mere infant of five hundred and twenty years since its ‘discovery’, ‘The American Holocaust’, known as the 500 year war, an estimated 95,000,000 to 114,000,000+ native peoples have perished as result of Christendom and its greed.

From the moment Christopher Columbus (a former slave trader and would-be Holy Crusader) set foot on the beaches of San Salvador in 1492 their fate was sealed. The native peoples were slaughtered and massacred like animals; indeed they were considered soulless animals beyond domesticating.

A Spanish missionary, Bartolome de las Casas, described eye-witness accounts of mass murder, torture and rape. (Barry Lopez summarizes Las Casas’ report.)

"One day, in front of Las Casas, the Spanish dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 people. Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight, the Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that devoured an Indian like a hog, in less than a moment. They used nursing infants for dog food.”


murder, forced labor, starvation, disease, and despair."

The Spaniards eventually went on to conquer Mexico and the southern part of the North American continent using the same process of genocide. By the time the 16th century came to a close, some 200,000 Spaniards had moved to the Americas and probably more than 60,000,000 natives were dead.

With the establishment of the Jamestown Colony (Virginia) in 1607 by the English and the French Quebec Colony in 1608 followed on their heels by New Amsterdam, now Holland (New York) in1624 and New Sweden (New Jersey) in 1638 the fate of the aboriginals was sealed.

Interested only in the land the natives lived on and having little Need for slaves the colonists initiated mass killings. They raided villages killing every man, woman, and child leaving the carcasses to rot or be eaten by carrion. They destroyed villages, burned crops, poisoned animals, and defaced sacred sites.

David E. Stannard referring to a letter written in 1723 stated:

"Hundreds of Indians were killed in skirmish after skirmish. Other hundreds were killed in successful plots of mass poisoning. They were hunted down by dogs. Their canoes and fishing weirs were smashed, their villages and agricultural fields burned to the ground. Indian peace offers were accepted by the English only until their prisoners were returned; then, having lulled the natives into false security, the colonists returned to the attack. It was the colonists' expressed desire that the Indians be exterminated, in a single raid the settlers destroyed corn

sufficient to feed four thousand people for a year. Starvation and the massacre of non- combatants is becoming the preferred British approach to dealing with the natives."

Determining that conventional extermination of the native people was not fast enough Christian Missionaries were encouraged to provide blankets and other gifts that had been previously used by colonial smallpox victims as peace offerings thereby reducing their population by half before the culling even began. John Winthrop, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote in 1634, “as for the natives, they are near all dead of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess. In 1703 Massachusetts offered a bounty of 12 pounds on each Indian scalp which increased to 100 pounds by 1723. This practice was so lucrative that frontier posts actually solicited them like they did animal pelts. The scalp buyers made no distinction between male or female, child or adult, infant or ancient; often paying more for the younger ones as they brought more money in England as souvenirs.

In 1776 Independence was declared. Hostilities against the Indian decreased while the colonists immersed themselves in the obtaining their freedom. By the early 1800s though it was business as usual and the American people turned their attentions back to enforcing their ‘Christian’ duty of eradicating the heathen from the Promised Land.

George Washington, the first President of the ‘Land of the Free’, compared the native to wolves referring to them as “beasts of prey” in a speech to the Governors and calling for their complete eradication.’

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson opened the land beyond the Mississippi to expansion westward for the already crowded new country. This renewed the blood lust for native lives and lands. Jefferson believed “a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms.” (“Those who labor in the earth,” he wrote, “are the chosen people of God.”)

This land rush was called by many names, some of the most popular being ‘The Wild West’ and ‘The Frontier Age’. Popularized in novels and magazines as the time of the ‘cowboys and Indians’; when the brave settlers and vastly outnumbered Calvary fought and eventually defeating the Indian, making our land safe for the American People.

The Indian; having learned well the lessons the white man taught, were indeed becoming savage by this time, with wide scale killings, burnings, and even the taking of scalps. The battles were either referred to as Divine Providence or Massacres by ‘The Savage Red Devils’ depending on the outcome of each battle.

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 where Andrew Jackson oversaw not only the stripping away of the flesh of 800+ dead Indians for manufacture into bridle reins, but also that

souvenirs from the corpses were distributed to the ladies of Tennessee was a victory, while The Battle of Little Bighorn, in June 1876, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, was a massacre.

The Removal Act of 1830 resulting in the nefarious Trail of Tears (a forced march of the Cherokees, resulting in the destruction of most of the Cherokee population) in 1838 was heralded as a brilliant strategic movement while Geronimo was referred to as a power hungry savage.

The discovery of gold in California in 1849 and shortly thereafter in Alaska, followed by the Homestead Act of 1862 opened up the flood gates sealing the fate of the native.

Native historian, Jack Forbes, wrote:” In 1848, before the gold rush in California, that state's native population is estimated to have been 150,000. In 1870, after the gold rush, only about 31,000 were still alive.”

The eventual defeat and forced removal from their homelands into small concentration camps (find a better name for them) caused increased death, by military, disease, starvation, extremely harsh conditions.

The late 19th Century witnessed a different type of genocide perpetrated on the Indian. Cultural genocide was utilized in a concentrated effort to Americanize the few natives who survived the ethnic cleansings; resulting in destruction of the native way of life. Indigenous youths were incarcerated, indoctrinated with non-indigenous Christian values, and forced into manual labor. Often they didn’t see their families until later in their adulthood after their value systems and knowledge had been supplanted with Christian thinking. One of the foundations of

The U.S. strategy was to replace traditional leadership with indoctrinated converts in order to expedite compliance with their goals.

The government’s and religious organizations’ systematical destruction of Native American culture and religious heritage continued through the 20th Century and on into the 21st in catastrophic and unexpected ways. John Toland is quoted as saying:

“Hitler’s concept of the concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination-by starvation and uneven combat-of the ‘Red Savages’ who could not be tamed by captivity.” ( “Adolf Hitler”, Vol. II, p. 802, Doubleday and Co. N.Y. 1976 )” The World finally took notice in 1948 when primarily white victims of Nazi Germany faced cultural extinction. The “Holocaust” of World War II came to be the model of genocide still being used today.

After WWII the United States quickly emerged as the world's "superpower" primarily through its economic might. For some time, many believed the U.S. to be a shining example of economic freedom for other nations to emulate. Indeed, America was eager to promote "economic freedom" globally to open new markets for U.S.-based corporations

In the 21st Century which many believe to be ‘The last generation’; we as the human race, must realize that other genocides have occurred. Genocide against many particular groups is still going on today – and America is still at the top of the list of tyrants. Whether in Vietnam or Iraq, Nicaragua or Indonesia, the inconvenient truth is that “human rights” are

reserved for white male Americans and Israeli Jews. The US native population, women, blacks, the Vietnamese, the Palestinians, the Iraqis, and all other minorities are inferior and entitled to no particular consideration.

It is time to admit to the wrongs we have done or let be done. It is time to stand up and say NO MORE.:

Taking a quote from “The Border on Our Backs” (RA#10)

“We deny the nopal no longer. We know full well we’re not on foreign soil, but on Indian lands. (Were we supposed to forget that too?) So there’s no going back. If anything, we are back. The whole continent, the whole earth---which our ancestors have traversed for thousands of years---is our mother. Meanwhile we watch Congress and the president do a dance about not pardoning or not granting amnesty to those who’ve been remanded to live in shadows. Sinverquenzas! Just who precisely needs to be pardoned? Those who are exploited and who have been here forever …. Or those who have been complicit in our dehumanization?”

Though this history has long since been forgotten or ignored, the earliest followers of Jesus rejected violence, tried to return good for evil, fed the hungry, did acts of mercy and unconditional love and tried to make friends out of their enemies (by caring for them, feeding them, praying for them and certainly refusing to kill them or pay for somebody else to kill them). Wakeup all you who claim allegiance to Jehovah and salvation through Christ His Son and heed this message:

“Jesus would surely have condemned his church’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, the enslavement of black Africans, and the segregationist, apartheid policies that were designed by various ruling elites to destroy ethnic or religious minorities.”


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Hermit on June 27, 2020:

Ho hum - so much waffle and counter-claim waffle.

To all Native Americans, never forget your ancestry, be proud of who you are and your ancestors.. practice you culture everyday and do all you can to pass on to the next generation the good and wise words of family- now and long ago. Live a good life, hold your head high and always try to do your best, no matter what. Be a proud and good Native American. No I am not Native American, but an Australian, who seen your land numerous times and admire you culture.

VladTheImpaler on August 16, 2018:

From history(dot)net: "“Moor” has long been a vague term, though we’ve generally come to use it for various caliphates in North Africa and, between 711 and 1492, a large part of the Iberian Peninsula. “Moors” in that period ranged from Semitic Arabs to Berbers to black Africans who made their way north via the trade routes, to migrating Gypsies (credited with influencing Spanish music, including Flamenco) to Caucasian Riffs and converted Spanish Muslims (Andalusians and Grenadines). Throughout the time period mentioned—and, in fact, well into the 1800s—the various peoples in those Moorish kingdoms practiced slavery and white captives were used whenever they could obtain them, often from Barbary pirates ravaging the Mediterranean. It was estimated that white slaves in Moorish servitude reached 1.2 million by 1780. Not that the Moors limited the system, such as it was, to Europeans. In 1591 a Moorish expedition headed south to smash the black Songhai empire, motivated primarily by gold and secondarily in taking black slaves."

VladTheImpaler on August 16, 2018:

Yo, Zacocom Zaccom - ever hear of the Spanish Conquistadors? The 'English' didn't get to 'America' for 100 years after the Spanish, and the Dutch and French also established Colonies in 'America'. Why do you think 'Mexicans' whine about the USA taking what is now the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas away from them? Why do you think there is cities with names like Santa Fe, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, etc. GO LEARN SOMETHING.

Zacocom Zaccom on August 15, 2018:

To the commenter Stop being so vague and be more precise. It was the ENGLISH who took over all North America and part of South America. It was the ENGLISH who killed not 100 million actually 240 Million people. And thats not all because the genocide took also place in all of the other territories taken by the ENGLISH, like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Antigua, and hundreds of other places. Total is around 400 Million people assasinated in the worst Genocide in history. Just ask yourself this. How many native american have been president in south american countries. Then go to any colony under the ENGLISH and make the same question. Barely any native race people in the parliament, congress, senate. And no presidents. The only non english president of united states was half african and still not a single native. Not in australia, nor in new zealand, nor in any other country. African are used to mock a false not racist attitude while actually being highly racist against people of native race, people natively american.

VladTheImpaler on June 21, 2018:


The Book the Art of War was written in China in 500 BC, why?

The Great Wall of China was not built to keep out Christians.

The Muslim Conquest REALLY murdered 100 million - in Ancient India, and millions in Persia, Anatolia, and Babylonia (now Iraq).

Mongols (who resemble Native Americans) murdered 100s of millions from China to Poland and from Russia to Persia and Iraq.

Alexander The Great was a Pre-Christian Greek.

Pre-Christian Romans invaded many other peoples.

Cherokee attacked Apache, and Apache slaughtered Hopi, etc.

REALITY in 2018 with 7.6 BILLION people on EARTH:

Native Americans have 31x more land, per person, than people of India, and 10x more than people of China. Combined, India and China have 3 BILLION people.

White European Americans have had same population since 1980, almost 40 years, about 200 million.

If only 10% of the Chines and India-ns came to the USA now, that would be 300 million more people in the USA. What land should we give them, Native American land?

PROTESTING TRUMP - WELCOMING BLACK and BROWN to your Reservations. There is another BILLION people in Africa, and another BILLION across the Muslim World. That is 5 BILLION People-Of-Color over there, living with 1/10th as much land, per person, as Native Americans have today. How many BILLIONS of them do you want to share your Reservations with? Trump is protecting AMERICA for all of us, Native Americans ESPECIALLY. You should support TRUMP, or you will end up wishing to Christ that you did, when those BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Black and Brown people get here - they will turn this entire continent into desert - just like most of Africa and the Middle-East. They added 4.6 BILLION people to the planet since 1960 while the White Man added ZERO. THINK ABOUT THAT!

VladTheImpaler on June 21, 2018:

Once again, in the words of YOUR historian, only 150,000 Native Americans lived in California in the mid-1800s, a state that has 30 million people living there today. Get a grip.

150,000 NAs x 50 states = 7.5 million TOTAL in USA, but that is IF all of the 50 states were same size as California, which of course as we know, most of the states are not even close to that size, so, 5 million NAs in the USA sounds about right.

Stone Age means you did not have metallurgy. Finding globs of copper on or near the surface of the ground and melting it into trinkets - is not metallurgy. Same with nuggets of gold found lying here and there. Yes, the SPANISH put you to work in mines - mines that you did not know how to develop yourselves.

SPANISH? For more than 1,500 years, Spain was repeatedly invaded and conquered by Rome, long before Christian Rome too, then Moors. Pre-Christian Romans and Moors are dark skin people, some almost black, with jet black hair and black eyes, more similar to NAs than Anglo-Saxon Europeans (blue and hazel eyes). So tell us, what does SPANISH mean? What race were those SPANISH who took ALL of South and Central America and TRIED to take ALL of North America. Yes, yes, who were those SPANISH?

There are African-Americans who insist that THEY established the great civilizations in Central America, and, they did, they did build those pyramid structures down there, and they are NOTHING BUT PILES of STONE.

BTW: Many Europeans who came to 'America' were infected with venereal diseases when they 'raped' Native American women, and they also died from Malaria and other 'native' diseases.

This is EARTH. There is ONE RULE. Survival of the fittest.

Europeans were invaded by (several dark skinned people, all with black hair and black eyes) Romans, Turks, Mongols, and Moors, and the Europeans had to learn how to organize large armies, and metallurgy, in order to survive, and they did. Native Americans did not learn quick enough, so, they lost their wars with the Europeans (Anglo-Saxons), but were slaughterd mostly by the SPANISH (whatever they are).

Wolverinetracker on March 28, 2018:

How Absolutely insensitive and disgraceful are the statements written by VladTheImpaler.

First things first.... White man had never encountered “ Stone Age People “ for the mere reason of them living 2,00,000 ( Million years -10,000 years) prior to white man.... moreover... Stone Age People are only identified in one continent.... East Africa, more accurately Ethiopia of today....( you might want to take out your globe)!

Your use ( and abuse ) of name calling strong indicative of how weak, narrow and unfounded your base of knowledge is....I am only to assume you “ raise your voice” as well hoping you’ll be right....(?!!)

Yes, it’s started with the Spanish, Columbus second expedition to North America 1508 which was primarily

“A Gold recovering and an Enslaving expedition “ in

Which the Native American have been forced into servitude for gold mines. They didn’t fare well at all and over 100 years died of poor conditions and diseases...( The average Shipment of gold/silver to Spain rose from

1Million a year to 35 Million a year by the end of the 1500 and I have not started to cover the French yet...)

As Spanish control disintegrated the French an ancient enemy moved in against the “ Treaty of Tordesillas “ insisted by the Pope. Cartier and Roberval exploration went underway as France at the time was most populous kingdom in Western Europe..!!!

As of Note... it did start with Spanish not Latino’s please inform yourself of the distinction between the two as Spanish refer to Spanish speaking origin as in Spain, while Latinos refers to people of Latin American Origin, this

Include Brazil ( as they speak Portuguese ) and Excludes Spain!!!

And Absolutely the White American ,The Spanish, Dutch, French and British collectively referred to as “ White Man”

are solely responsible for a massive genoside that is unspoken, undocumented unrecognized and unaccounted

for 500 years later....

Truth be told the prime example of our illiterate education

result in moronic claims and statements as used by the mentioned above. An average imbecile with below average intellectual contribution to a stagnant society...

I sure hope you are headed for the books....

Tim Wilson on December 24, 2017:

That is so true. Make the Indian side of me ashamed of the white side.

Vincent Thompkins on December 20, 2017:

It was so wrong if this genocide. And wrong doing My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ knows these acts and says to me forgive them for they know not what they do... Your reward is great in Heaven Mother Sky .

CommonSense on September 01, 2017:




noun: conquest

the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force.

This is absolutely nothing new.

VladTheImpaler on January 26, 2017:

Once again, in the words of YOUR historian, only 150,000 Native Americans lived in California in the mid-1800s, a state that has 30 million people living there today. Get a grip. Yes, there was a war between Europeans and 'Americans', and yes, the White Man kicked the crap out of the Stone Age people they found. Maybe if those Stone Age people had acted more human-like, then maybe the war wouldn't have been so bad. But how bad WAS that war? Most likely no more than 1 million Native Americans were killed by direct actions - the rest died from disease, even if intentionally spread, they would have gotten that disease and died anyhow.

Interesting how this article describes how horrible the Spanish (or Latinos) were, yet today you are blaming the Anglos for those same types of acts. You are like African-Americans who blame every White person for slavery, when most Whites lived in the North and never had slaves or came to America after the Civil War when there wasn't ANY slavery.

And, even this article says that Latino took all of South America, Central America, and some of North America. You know that part of North America they took, and the 'Anglos' took from them? - The 'Anglos' gave so much of that land back to 'Natives' that 'Natives' have 2.6x more land, per person, that 'Anglos' in the USA. So how about you blame the Mexicans, or Latinos for being the bad guys, instead of the 'Anglos' who gave you much of your land back, hmmmm?

Robert on January 25, 2017:

Americans are denying their own history of the holocaust. None of this denial will save a single Native American life lost. No rewriting of history will deny a single death. Americans need to accept the blood on their hands. No, we must not "get over it"

38575559 on December 29, 2016:

I see that rewriting of history is alive and well in this day and age. Liberals are very good at it because they infiltrated education institutions.

Hence we have claims like 100,000,000 million of indians dead because of white Europeans or 10,000 rapes a day. Only problem for the liberals is that during the last 40 years the "numbers" in their "statistics" slowly grew to such a nonsense that today only morons with no brains are believing those made up numbers. When you are no good at anything loser it's very tempting to take up any cause, no matter how ridiculous, to make yourself feel good about yoursef. Liberals, stop and look at yourself in harsh light of reality. Humanity did not advance from cave man times via the means of being a victim. Victimhood kills human spirit and makes you a weak sheep easily led by true predators who are plotting their own evil path. Just look at history. You can find lots of examples.

IME on October 15, 2016:

It was the Europeans (meaning from the European continent) who came to invade the Americas. It was their nature of "conquering" land for their kings and/or religion. Taking land that belonged to the native people; natives whom in return tried to defend their land, but in the end were indeed slaughtered. And this did happen, whether it was genocide or not, it did happen all over the American continents over a period of hundreds of years. That is where the "100 million" number comes from. European settlers didn't just claim the United States. They arrived in both North and South America. And Native Americans are ALL the people who are Native to the Americas.

VladTheImpaler on September 07, 2016:


So there was 150,000 Native Americans in all of the large state of California, multiply that by 50 times, and you get a total of 7.5 million Natives across the entire USA's 50 states, and as you know every state but Texas is MUCH smaller than California, so the number that YOU provided really calculates out as only about 5 million Native Americans.

Guess what dude - your article is almost entirely BS.

Another example: The Battle of Wounded Knee is proclaimed to be one of the worst massacres of Native Americans EVER ... and the estimate is 300 dead. So there was 100 million / 300 per massacre = 333,333 battles (or massacres) like that? One per day would be about 333 per year, so it would take 1000 years of constant battles to massacre 100 million - and NOBODY has ever claimed that happened.

Back in Europe however, Genghis Kahn's Mongols with an army of more than 200,000 warriors DID annihilate Russian and Ukranian villages with 20,000 people in them - even though those 'Vikings' killed as many as 40,000 Mongols, the other 160,000 were able to annihilate the 20,000 Russian/Viking people.

So, no, the Native Americans did NOT suffer the Greatest Genocide on Earth - not even close.

VladTheImpaler on May 24, 2016:

Yes, allowed to go anywhere. FYI: The USA took the American Southwest from Mexico, not Native Americans, and there is precisely ZERO Reservation Lands in Mexico. The Spanish/Mexicans made pacts with Apache to attack Comanche and made pacts with Comanche to attack Apache - so you think Latinos are nicer than Anglos? The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and if the USA had not been developed by Anglo-Saxon-Americans as it was - the Japanese would have bombed and slaughtered the (Stone Age) Native Americans far worse than Anglo-Saxons did - ask the Chinese. Get over it - the fact is that the Anglo-Saxon-Americans have improved lives of millions of Native Americans now living into their 80s compared to dying at 40 or less on average - just wait until the Arabic-Muslims get here and take over - they slaughtered 100s of millions of Native-Africans and will chop the heads off of any Native American who wants to continue their Pow-Wows and other 'pagan' rituals.

JustMe on April 12, 2016:

and they are allowed to go anywhere....

they must be very thankful.

VladTheImpaler on January 27, 2016:

1) As noted, the black plague killed 100s of millions of Europeans - that stuff happens.

2) Genghis Kahn's Mongolian Hordes (Central Asians)invaded Europe, and truly murdered and raped 10s of millions, actually changing the DNA of people along the border of Europe and Asia.

3) Moors from Africa invaded Europe, conquered and ruled Spain for 500 years, raping and pillaging there and continuously invading France and other areas of Europe, until driven out in 1492. Columbus actually went West trying to find a safer passage to the East Indies - trying to avoid the hideous Moors and other Blacks along the African coastline. The Crusades were badly timed, but they were in response to the invasions of Europe by Arabic Muslims. Crusaders got to the Middle East late, and found Christians had already been wiped out during the Muslim Conquest.

3) Ottoman-Turks and Tartars, an Arabic and mixed race of Mongols due to Mongolians having raped their DNA into conquered people of North-West Arabia and South-East Europe (now Turkey, Syria, Georgia, Chechnya, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, etc.), invaded Europe, truly killing 10s of millions, for 500 years. Russia, not the USSR, but European-White-Russia, had (11) discernible periods of war with Ottoman-Turks, who had successfully invaded as far as Vienna, Austria.

4) Today, you can see the obvious brutality of ISIS and Boko-Haram types, and they are Arabian/African people, not Europeans.

5) Today, with 7 billion people on the planet, Native Americans have about 20x more land per person than people of India, about 10x more than people of China, and almost 3x more than other US-Americans. They have their own, private lands, and they are allowed to go anywhere that any other US-American can. They have enough land that they sell hunting and fishing licenses to Non-Natives.

6) Every place on earth that the White-Man has gone, the populations have exploded, because we brought modern medicine and sanitation and farming to those places. The population of Africa increased by a billion people, and the same for Arabia and other Muslim naions.

7) The Maya WERE chopping off people heads in sacrifice to 'gods' with the hope the 'gods' would end the drought that killed many of them - even before Columbus landed.

8) So 1,000-2,000 White Men killed 100 million red men? Are you saying that Native Americans were THAT weak compared to White Man ??? I doubt that.

Marie Ann Faulkner on September 07, 2015:

I have American Indian ancestors : Cherokees who intermarried with the Watts and Carpenter Families who immigrated to America from Devon in the 17th century

I am shocked to hear the account outlined above and need to have this appalling history remembered

anonymous on July 21, 2015:

This is grossly inaccurate. Your article is insinuating that Europeans slaughter over one hundred million people which never happened. The vast majority died as a result of diseases unknowingly brought over by the Europeans. The Black Plague killed roughly two hundred million people and was brought from Central Asia, but I don't see you blaming Asians of some kind of atrocity.

The reality is the photo your friend sent you is the work of some lazy buffoon who googled the total Native American population spanning North and South America and slapped it on a photo of sitting bull.

Many of the atrocities faced by the natives came from the Puritans during the 1600's because of their religious belief that the natives were inferior and the U.S. during the 1800's over land disputes. There's no excuse for what happened, but to say that it was genocide is hardly honest.

When the Quakers settled Pennsylvania their communities lived in peace with the Natives and encouraged equal treatment. Even Benjamin Franklin wrote about the issue of people leaving European communities for the native ones in search of simpler life. They were viewed as the hippies of their time which as you know is attractive for some.

To sum up my point, your article is based on assumptions and half truths. I'm trying to avoid dealing with your claims toward the end about lack of rights for minorities otherwise my argument will be a little too long winded. Either way you should hit the books once more and don't look for articles involve confirmation bias.