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GRAPHIC PHOTOS(War GENOCIDE)

Things You May Not Have Been Taught In School

  

Fur Trading

The fur trade was one of the earliest and most important industries in North America. The fur-trading industry played a significant role in the development of the United States and Canada for more than 300 years.

The fur trade began in the 1500's as an exchange between Indians and Europeans. The Indians traded furs for such goods as tools and weapons. Beaver fur, which was used in Europe to make felt hats, became the most valuable of these furs. The fur trade prospered until the mid-1800's, when fur-bearing animals became scarce and silk hats became more popular than felt hats made with beaver.

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  Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy or practice by which one country installs a settlement of its people on the lands of another society. Usually, a colonizing country also quickly establishes political control over the other society. Colonialism is generally associated with the European overseas expansion that began about 1500. But it has occurred in most parts of the world and in most historical eras, even the most ancient.

Through the centuries, nations have established colonies primarily for economic reasons. For example, nations have set up colonies to gain privileged access to prized manufactured items, to obtain opportunities for profitable investments, to secure access to raw materials, or to provide markets for their goods. They have also sent out colonists to search for precious metals or to trade for scarce and valuable spices and specialized crops. In some cases, religious organizations strongly supported colonization efforts as a way of gaining converts among nonbelievers. However, religious conversion of native peoples rarely ranked as the primary reason for colonization.

Colonizing powers often possessed superior technologies or at least had advanced military weapons or tactics. For example, the Spanish expeditions against the Indians of Central and South America during the 1500's succeeded in part because the Spaniards had superior weapons. Their metal swords and armor and their muskets gave them a great advantage over the Indians, who had never developed such weapons.
Most of the early English settlers who came to what is now the United States wanted to start new lives and make new homes for their families. At first, the British and colonial governments tried to deal with the Indians through negotiation and treaties. The settlers and the Indians had fairly friendly relations. But as the Indians sought to protect their land from the claims of increasing numbers of newcomers, fighting broke out between the two groups.

After the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Britain, the government of the new United States became responsible for dealing with the Indians. In 1778, the United States and the Delaware Indians signed a treaty--the first between the new nation and an Indian tribe. Nearly 400 other treaties followed. In these pacts, tribes typically agreed to keep peace with the settlers and to recognize the jurisdiction of the U.S. government. Each tribe gave up much of its territory and kept only a part for itself. The federal government promised a cash payment and protection in return for the land it obtained from the tribe. In most cases, the government also agreed to supply the Indians with livestock, manufactured goods, and medicine.

Under the U.S. Constitution, treaties with Indian tribes were as legally binding as agreements with other nations. But many of the treaties were broken as increasing numbers of settlers entered lands reserved for the Indians.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON claimed there was no difference in "Indians" from wolves, helping to justify overwhelming hatred of Native People whom he labeled redskin savages: These words of hatred gave permission to European Americans to terrorize, kill, maim and destroy Native Americans physically and culturally. Words are bad enough, but his behavior was unbelievable. He waged a personal war of genocide instructing Major General John Sullivan in 1779 to hunt the Mohawk like wild animals and to: "Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed," urging the general not to "listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected." Sullivan did this reporting he had, "destroy[ed] everything that contributes to their support" turning "the whole of that beautiful region from the character of a garden to a scene of drear and sickening desolation." Washington's troops amused themselves by skinning the bodies of Indians "from the hips downward, to make boot tops or leggins."

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Then of course later on(much later)came the railroad..ripping up tree's,land and forcing indians off thier land even more....

The U.S. government saw the need for a special agency to deal with trade, negotiations, and other matters involving Indians. In 1824, it set up the Office of Indian Affairs (now the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and placed it under the control of the War Department. In 1849, the office became part of the Department of the Interior.

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 Indian removal

In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. This act was designed to free more eastern land for white settlement. It allowed the president to move the eastern Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi River. The Indian land in the West became known as the Indian Territory. This huge reservation spread across what are now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska. United States military patrols supervised the Indian groups during the westward journey. According to some estimates, the U.S. government had moved more than 70,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi by 1840. Thousands of Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and other Indians died on the journey westward.
Treaties with the United States guaranteed the lands of the Indian Territory to the Indians who had moved from the East. Eventually, however, settlers wanted that land as well, and the territory was reduced. Meanwhile, settlers were pushing into other Indian lands in the West all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 also brought prospectors who killed the game on which many Western tribes depended. The Indians fought to keep their lands but were finally defeated. The U.S. government placed the various tribes on isolated reservations, mainly in the West.

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 HISTORICAL WORDS

 From A Non-Indians
 
Philip F. Wells
Interpreter for General Forsyth
"During this time a medicine man, gaudily dressed and fantastically painted, executed the maneuvers of the ghost dance, raising and throwing dust into the air. He exclaimed, 'Ha! Ha! as he did so, meaning he was about to do something terrible, and said, I have lived long enough,' meaning he would fight until he died. Turing to the young warriors, who were squatted together, he said, 'Do not fear, but let your hearts be strong. Many soldiers are about us and have many bullets, but I am assured their bullets cannot penetrate us. The prairie is large, and their bullets will fly over the prairies and will not come toward us. If they do come toward us, they will float away like dust in the air.' Then the young warriors exclaimed, 'How!' with great earnestness, meaning they would back the medicine man… Whiteside then said to me, 'Tell the Indians it is necessary they be searched one at a time.' The old Indians assented willingly by answering, 'How!' and the search began. The young warriors paid no attention to what I told them, but the old men – five or six of them – sitting next to us, passed through the lines and submitted to search.
Thomas H. Tibbles
Omaha World Herald

 "Nothing I have seen in my whole… life ever affected or depressed or haunted me like the scenes I saw that night in that church. One un-wounded old woman… held a baby on her lap… I handed a cup of water to the old woman, telling her to give it to the child, who grabbed it as if parched with thirst. As she swallowed it hurriedly, I saw it gush right out again, a bloodstained stream, through a hole in her neck."
Heartsick, I went to… find the surgeon… For a moment he stood there near the door, looking over the mass of suffering and dying women and children… The silence they kept was so complete that it was oppressive… Then to my amazement I saw that the surgeon, who I knew had served in the Civil War, attending the wounded… from the Wilderness to Appomattox, began to grow pale… 'This is the first time I've seen a lot of women and children shot to pieces,' he said. 'I can't stand it'….
Out at Wounded Knee, because a storm set in, followed by a blizzard, the bodies of the slain Indians lay untouched for three days, frozen stiff from where they had fallen. Finally they were buried in a large trench dug on the battlefield itself. On that third day Colonel Colby… saw the blanket of a corpse move… Under the blanket, snuggled up to its dead mother, he found a suckling baby girl."

Black Elk
Lakota
"It was a good winter day when all this happened. The sun was shining. But after the soldiers marched away from their dirty work, a heavy snow began to fall. The wind came up in the night. There was a big blizzard, and it grew very cold. The snow drifted deep in the crooked gulch, and it was one long grave of butchered women and children and babies, who had never done any harm and were only trying to run away."

 

American Horse
Lakota
"There was a woman with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce… A mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing what its mother was dead was still nursing… The women as they were fleeing with their babies were killed together, shot right through… and after most all of them had been killed a cry was made that all those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys… came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them."

Massacre of Cheyenne Indians

"There was one little child, probably three years old, just big enough to walk through the sand. The Indians had gone ahead, and this little child was behind following after them. The little fellow was perfectly naked, traveling on the sand. I saw one man get off his horse, at a distance of about seventy-five yards, and draw up his rifle and fire-he missed the child. Another man came up and said, 'Let me try the son of a bitch; I can hit him.' He got down off his horse, kneeled down and fired at the little child, but he missed him. A third man came up and make a similar remark, and fired, and the little fellow dropped." Testimony, 1864, Major Scott Anthony First Colorado Cavalry, before the United States Congress, "Massacre of Cheyenne Indians" at Sand Creek, in Report on the Conduct of the War (38th Congress, 2nd Session, 1865) p. 27.This is a true incident recorded in the time of open hatred for Native American people. This is the attitude of a time that not recognize the Native Americans in any human form. A time filled with calls for genocide against the "REDSKINS". The execution of this child is the history of millions of families across Turtle Island. It is their ancestral history. Their unjust murder is a recorded part of history... 

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