1On October 12, 1492, after seventy days of wandering at sea, Columbus finally set foot on the American continent.
The fertile land, beautiful environment, and diverse creatures deeply attracted the landing crew. The crew members all lamented that this was the most beautiful scenery in the world, which was completely different from other places. The indigenous people on the island had never seen any white people, and they were kind-hearted people who warmly entertained Columbus's fleet.
Columbus thought he had arrived in India, so he named the indigenous people here Indians .
But what the Indians did not expect was that with the landing of the white people, their nightmare also began...
In the next four hundred years, the innocent Indians were massacred by the US government, and the United States even The criminal behavior of trying to cover up this bloody history is truly outrageous!
What on earth is going on? What happened to the Indians?
In this issue, we will reveal the dark history of race in the United States and look at the truth behind the massacre of 5 million Indians.
- 【Sinful " Mayflower "】
After Columbus discovered the American continent, this mysterious land was no longer isolated from the world. 128 years later, this continent once again welcomed a group of uninvited "guests" ".
In 1620, 102 Puritans who were dissatisfied with the hostility of the British Catholic Church to themselves took the "Mayflower" ship to prepare to move to North America, and arrived at Cape Cod (today's Massachusetts, USA) on November 21.
It was winter at the time, and they faced the threat of freezing to death as soon as they landed. These Puritans had no food, enough warm clothing, and no shelter from the cold. After this cold winter, only 44 of the 102 people who landed landed survived.
The simple Indians sent them clothing and food for survival, and even had people teach them how to survive in such an environment.
Since the Indians lived in a primitive society, they often hunted. In order to allow these Puritans to survive, the Indians taught their hunting skills to each other. Not only that, the Indians also taught the Puritans some of the most basic ways of survival, such as raising poultry, fishing in the sea, and sowing corn and pumpkins.
In the hearts of Indians, there is no distinction between races. For them, everyone is the same life.
With the help of the Indians, the Pilgrims finally ushered in a good harvest in the second year. They invited the Indians to celebrate the joy of the harvest and established a Thanksgiving Day. This is the origin of the American Thanksgiving Day.
But the irony is that they are grateful not for the Indians who helped them get through the difficulties, but for the so-called God's favor. And this day that Americans celebrate as a nation has become "Aboriginal Mourning Day."
As more and more British immigrants like this group of Puritans poured into the American continent, the greed and desire of these British people were gradually exposed. They began to colonize this land and expel the indigenous Indians.
The relationship between the Indians and the British colonists gradually became tense, and finally reached the point of drawing swords from each other.
However, the Indians in the cold weapon era were never opponents of the powerful colonists. In the struggle with the British colonists, the Indians had no choice but to retreat one after another and gave up all their fertile land to the colonists.
- [Inhuman massacre]
The endless wars and massacres between the Indians and the British colonists continued until American independence . Due to the huge disparity in military power between the two sides, in the process, the Indians could only let it go. The British colonists oppressed.
As early as the independence period, the United States had already started massacring Indians.
In 1779, Washington ordered the army to attack the Iroquois people (a branch of North American Indians), and said that if "trash" like Indians were placed near settlements, the country would be destroyed.He ordered that no proposals for peace be accepted until all Indian habitations had been destroyed.
In 1783, when the United States became independent, Washington slaughtered Indians even more unscrupulously.
He compared the Indians to wild beasts and ordered his troops to massacre the Indians again and again.
In order to make boots that were as long as their legs, they skinned the dead bodies of the Iroquois people, even "skillfully" peeling them from the buttocks down. And this kind of cruel behavior has become commonplace for the American Legion.
The United States believed that the "savage" Indians would be a drag on the country's economy, so they should be massacred and exterminated. This massacre lasted for nearly a century from 1803 to 1892.
In 1807, Thomas Jefferson, one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, declared in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" while discriminating against black people and believing that black people were born equal. They are inferior to white people.
Thomas Jefferson also launched dozens of conquests against the Indians. The United States was not ashamed of this. Instead, it beautified Thomas Jefferson as a frontier pioneer in primary and secondary school textbooks, trying to cover up the past. sins committed.
It can be seen that the United States has never truly regretted its actions.
In order to cooperate with the military offensive, the United States also promulgated a very bloody policy for this purpose: In 1814, President James Madison issued a decree that for every Indian skull turned over, a reward of 50 to 100 US dollars would be given. The specific reward will be determined based on whether the skull is a child, a woman or a man.
For a time, a wave of massacre of Indians set off in the United States.
In the years since 1830, the United States federal government launched more than 1,000 military operations of varying scales, and many Indian villages disappeared from the world overnight. From 1846 to 1973, the population of California Indians plummeted from 150,000 to 30,000, and the vast majority of them died of atrocities.
Americans massacred the Indians and occupied their land. Such heinous crimes are unforgivable, but their ambitions do not stop there. They not only want to eliminate the Indians, but also want to exterminate their culture. .
- [Captivity of Indians on reservations]
The initial attitude of the U.S. federal government towards Indians was brutal expulsion.
After the United States became independent, it began to aggressively expand its territory to the west. At that time, the western territories were basically occupied by Indian tribes. In order to occupy these lands, the United States used various despicable methods such as plunder, deception, and massacre to rob them.
By the mid-18th century, the federal government forcibly settled some Indians in the "Indian Reservation" in Oklahoma today. Reservations are places specially used by the Americans to settle Indians. Most of those Indians were exploited and had to comply with the arrangements of the Americans.
There are also some Indians in the west who are very resistant to the United States. In order to deal with them, the United States has tried its best.
There are countless American bison on the western grasslands of the United States. The western Indians make a living by hunting American bison. They are very brave warriors. Because they are very dissatisfied with the actions of the Americans, they often attack white colonists. .
The U.S. federal government also suppressed these Indians with force, but both sides suffered varying degrees of losses. Therefore, later, the U.S. government had to agree to allow the Indians to hunt in the northern areas and closed the access to white colonists in the hunting areas. After
, the United States wanted to control all Indians and move them to "reservations." The U.S. government believed that as long as the Indians were controlled, they would not pose a threat to white colonists.
As a result, the United States began to lobby the leaders of these Indian tribes.
The Indians also long for peace in their hearts, but they would rather be on the vast grasslands than staying in the reservation.
After negotiation, the United States promised them that even if they went to the reservation, they would be allowed to hunt in the southern grasslands. The federal government would also provide them with daily necessities and build schools and hospitals for them.
The naive Indians believed the federal government's words, gave up their original territory, and moved to the reservation. But later, Capitol Hill in Washington was not willing for the government to spend too much money on the Indians, so the federal government failed to fulfill its promise to the Indians.
This completely angered the Indians, and the two sides started a new war, but it was basically a unilateral massacre by the United States.
Since American soldiers could not completely suppress all Indians, some Indians would still return to the grasslands to hunt bison. They believed that this free life was more suitable for them.
But this is not what the United States wants to see. In order to prevent the Indians from returning to the grasslands, the Americans began to slaughter bison in large numbers. Under the force of extermination, the number of bison in North America dropped from more than 13 million to less than 1,000.
Soon, this method of hunting was no longer enough to sustain the Indians. The Indians who lost their food sources had to accept the arrangements of the United States and stay in reservations, which were basically places with relatively barren land. The United States hypocritically said that it would provide food to the Indians, but it would only provide it for ten years. After ten years, the Indians would have to fend for themselves.
Americans want to achieve the purpose of exterminating Indians through this method of captivity, which not only violates the spirit of humanitarianism, but also is a historical lesson that mankind can never forget. The deep sins of the United States will never be overcome no matter how long it takes. Whitened stains.
- [Cultural Genocide and Assimilation]
Since Indians are organized into tribes, in order to destroy the original culture of the Indians, the United States forcibly abolished the tribal system and allowed the Indians to forcibly integrate into the white society. And this policy did cause a huge blow to the Indians.
There once was an Indian tribe called the Cherokee, whose economy was on par with white people. However, after the United States forcibly abolished the tribal system, the Cherokee tribe plummeted and suddenly became the poorest group of indigenous people.
Indians not only suffered mental torture in white society, but were also suppressed economically by white people.
In American society, Indians cannot even find jobs. Americans looked down on the Indians from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that they were barbaric people on the grasslands, so they discriminated against the Indians, not to mention providing them with jobs.
In order to further crush the Indian tribes, the United States first drove all Indians to reservations, and then destroyed the reservations under various excuses. The nomads who originally lived on the grasslands were suddenly required to engage in farming, and then their land was taken back without warning for various reasons. This led to the gradual deterioration of the living conditions of the Indians.
After a series of attacks on the Indians, the United States began to try to assimilate the Indians. All Indians who were identified as "mixed blood" had to give up their tribal identity and recognize themselves as "citizens" of the United States. This made the Indians The sense of identity suffered a severe blow.
In addition, the United States also starts with Indian children and wants to erase the Indian culture from its roots.
Starting in 1819, the United States began to establish boarding schools across the country and forced Indian children to enroll. When they were in school, the school used American culture to educate Indian children, and prohibited them from speaking the national language and wearing national costumes, in an attempt to completely eliminate the Indian children's identification with the tribe.
Indian children were not treated fairly during school. Many children died of starvation, illness, or even abuse to death.
In addition to starting with schools, the federal government has not relaxed in terms of society.In order to continue the assimilation policy and further annihilate Indian civilization, the government launched a "forced foster care" policy, which means that Indian children were forcibly handed over to white people to raise. This bandit policy was not banned until 1978.
Over the past 100 years, countless Indian families have been destroyed. Based on their suffering, the United States will never deserve the forgiveness of the Indian people.
- [Indians are still facing crisis]
After more than four hundred years of expulsion, imprisonment, and massacre, the Indian civilization has almost disappeared. This ethnic group, which was once one of the major human races, is almost facing extinction. .
Before white people discovered the Indians in 1942, there were about 5 million Indians, but by 1800, there were only 600,000 people left. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the lowest number of Native Americans was 237,000 in 1990. Today, the Indian and Alaskan Aboriginal population only accounts for 1.3% of the total U.S. population.
From this set of data, we can directly see how much suffering the Indians suffered, and even now, the living conditions of the Indians have not been improved. They live on the most barren land and do not even have the most basic living security. Neither can be obtained.
Not only in terms of life, the educational resources of Indians are also far inferior to those of white people. The highly educated Indians have always lagged behind the whites. The schools in some Indian reservations have long been out of use, and the education system has long ceased to exist.
The current economic situation of Indians is very pessimistic, with an extremely high poverty rate. Moreover, the low economic level has also caused serious public security problems. In the reserves, violence against indigenous peoples is so common that the security situation is deteriorating.
The political status of Indians is also very low. Many Indians are prohibited from exercising their right to vote, and one-third of Native Americans have suffered discrimination and humiliation in life and work. The mastermind behind all this is the US government.
As the first masters of American land, Indians are slowly disappearing...
- [Conclusion]
The United States' extermination of Indians is a despicable act rarely seen in human history.
Everyone is reflecting on the consequences of four hundred years of genocide. Only the United States, as the perpetrator, not only does not feel ashamed of its actions, but instead adopts an arrogant and evasive attitude.
Regarding the history of massacre of Indians, an American scholar even said arrogantly: "It's nothing, history is all about bloodshed."
In order to beautify the history of massacre of Indians, the United States did not hesitate to discredit the image of Indians and blackened them into The " savages " who will attack white people, thereby justifying their massacres, and attempt to exterminate the Indian population, spirit, and rights...
What an irony, only the victims are learning History, the perpetrators are distorting history. But no matter how cunningly the United States tries to hide its wrongdoings, history will not change. What the United States has done is a tragedy for the Indians and even more for mankind.
