In February 2022, the Shoshone tribe of American Indians 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 murders in the Shoshone tribal area through deception, coercion, etc. Sub-nuclear test!

This place is called by the American media "the place that has been bombed the most by atomic bombs". The Shoshone tribe, which has only 30,000 direct descendants, has lost thousands of people to nuclear tests, developmental malformations, leukemia and cancer, and has also become a common diseases in this "nuclear test site".

This kind of Indian tragedy is by no means an isolated case.

The Navajo Nation in the southwestern United States is the largest indigenous group in North America. Their settlements have long been systematically used as dumping grounds for toxic or nuclear waste by the United States. According to a 2016 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about a quarter of the tribe’s One woman contained high concentrations of radioactive substances in her body, and the carcinogen – radioactive uranium – was also found in the urine of her 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 the blood and tears of the American massacre of Indians in the past few centuries.

As an American historian said, "Every frontier in the United States was obtained through a series of wars against Indians." Massacre, expulsion, assimilation, and extermination, the history of the development of the United States is a "blood and tears of 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 Indians for hundreds of years.

As indigenous peoples of the American continent, the Indian population plummeted 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. To this day, they still face a serious survival crisis.

In this issue, we will use the tragic experiences of Indians over hundreds of years to reveal the hypocrisy of American human rights. The history of American crimes and the history of blood and tears of Indians will begin.

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Bloody "Mayflower"

When Columbus first landed in America in 1492, he mistakenly thought he had arrived in India, so he called the indigenous people on 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. Because of the cold weather and lack of food, almost half of the colonists did not survive the first winter.

At this time, the aboriginal Indians extended a helping hand and sent food to these European white people, and taught them how to fish in the sea, farm ashore, how to identify poisonous food, how to avoid wild beasts, and many other survival skills.

With the help of the Indians, these European whites struggled to survive in North America and ushered in a bumper harvest the next year, so they held a grand celebration, which later became an important traditional festival in the United States. ——The origin of Thanksgiving.

The Indians who had helped them were also invited to participate in the celebration and thank God for giving them food. Yes, you heard it right, they thanked 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, cocoa, coffee, etc. unique to the Americas to Europe, accumulating a large amount of wealth. , the huge profits also attracted more white European immigrants, and the Indians’ nightmare began!

The Indians in North America have always lived in tribes without the concept of a nation.

As more and more immigrants came from Europe, the two sides began to have differences over 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' increasing pressure also aroused resistance from the Indians, but due to scattered tribes and backward weapons and equipment, the Indians were quickly defeated.

Many indigenous people became prisoners. The European colonists sold the captured young adults as slaves, and most of the children and the elderly were executed. Moreover, after massacring the Indians, the European colonists also developed perverted habits. They held another Thanksgiving celebration. Festival, this Thanksgiving in addition to eating and drinking, there is also a football game, but they are not playing football, but Indian heads.

The atrocities committed by the European colonists led the Indians to begin organized resistance and severely damaged the colonists in 1675, wiping out 50 of the 90 immigrant settlements.

However, the good times did not last long. As more and more European immigrants joined, the Indians soon fell into a disadvantage again, and the colonists launched more brutal persecution of the Indians.

Marx recorded in Capital:

"The Puritans of New England, in 1703, decided in their legislative assembly to pay a bounty of 40 pounds for every Indian scalp (scalp) taken or captured; in 1720, every scalp was The reward was raised to 100 pounds… The British Parliament once declared that killing and scalping were "the means assigned to it by God and nature."

What is even more crazy is that in order to weaken the strength of the Indian tribes, the white colonists gave blankets and beddings containing viruses such as chickenpox and malaria as gifts to the Indians. As a result, infectious diseases raged across North America, the Indian population dropped sharply, and each tribe reduced its population. 25%-50% of the population, some smaller tribes even became extinct due to infectious diseases.

Florida had 700,000 indigenous people in 1520, but by 1700 there were less than 2,000 left. The huge destructive power of infectious diseases plunged the Indians into deep fear and despair.

The massacre of Indians never stopped until the independence of the United States. So what awaited the Indians after the founding of the United States?

Westward Movement

In 1783, Britain officially recognized the independence of the United States, and this was the beginning of the Indians' complete fall into the abyss.

This was the beginning of a government-led genocide that lasted for centuries. Almost all the founding fathers of the United States had a hand in the massacre of Indians.

Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States, once instructed his troops: "No proposals for peace shall be heeded until all Indian reservations have been effectively destroyed."

Washington even taught his soldiers to "skin the dead Indians from the buttocks down, so that you can make boots that are high or that can be extended with the legs."

Thomas Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, who once proposed that "all men are created equal", was an out-and-out "executioner" for Indians.

Thomas Jefferson

After the United States purchased Louisiana from France in 1803, it began its "famous" westward expansion. During this period, the large-scale expulsion and massacre of Indians began with President Jefferson.

Thereafter, Americans portrayed the Indians as pagans and savages who must be killed in the name of "civilization" and Christianity. Behind the American spirit of pioneering, enterprising, and innovative shaped by the westward expansion movement, the innocent blood of Indians flows.

In 1814, the government of James Madison in the United States enacted a new law: for every Indian skull turned in, a bonus of US$50 to US$100 would be received. At that time, the average daily wage of American workers 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 obtain a large piece of land in the West by paying only $10. Under the temptation of the land, the massacre of Indians reached a climax, and countless Indian villages turned into hell on earth overnight.

In the same year, Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Indian chiefs. There was no court debate or judicial process. As the famous American general Sherman once said, "Only dead Indians are good Indians."

The Homestead Act of 1862, enacted by the Lincoln administration

On November 29, 1864, because a small number of Indians objected to signing a land transfer agreement, American pastor John Chivington led the army to massacre Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. Almost all of the more than 200 tribal members were killed. Three tribes Two-thirds of the dead were women or children. They also scalped these women and children and paraded them through the streets.

According to incomplete statistics, after independence, the United States launched more than 1,500 killings of Indian tribes. Countless Indians died of atrocities, which directly led to the complete annihilation of more than 10 tribes such as the Fequite, Mohican, and Massachusetts.

In the infamous Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the Black Hawk War, and the Wounded Knee Massacre, U.S. armed soldiers carried out bloody massacres against tribes with extremely cruel methods.

By the 1890s, the United States had basically achieved its "established 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, which can be called the most brutal genocide in history.

cultural genocide

“American Indians are still alive, but part of them is dead.”

After experiencing physical genocide, at the end of the 19th century, the Indians entered a process of blood and tears of cultural genocide.

The U.S. government openly declared that the Indians were a barbaric, evil, and inferior ethnic group, and therefore needed the United States to help them "civilize" them. As a result, thousands of years of American civilization began to be obliterated.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the United States’ “bison policy.” There used to be a large number of bison living in the Americas. This animal was the main source of life for the Indians. It not only provided food, but bison skin was also the main material for the clothing and tents of these indigenous peoples.

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. In order to "help" the Indians change their bad habits, the U.S. government ordered a large-scale hunting of buffalo, completely cutting off the indigenous peoples. the source of life.

Under the leadership of the U.S. government, the number of bison in North America dropped sharply from more than 13 million to less than 1,000 in less than 20 years.

The disappearance of the North American bison forced the Indian tribes, who had lost their source of daily necessities, to give up their resistance and move to "reservations" designated by the U.S. government. Eventually, the "reservations" became smaller and smaller, becoming several small barren areas that were not connected to each other. soil of.

However, the food provided by the U.S. government seems to be kind-hearted, but it has a time limit. After the time limit, the Indians must make a living on their own in the "reservations".

However, the most fertile land in North America is in the hands of white people, and the grasslands of the "reservations" are not suitable for agriculture. As a result, the environment is deteriorating day by day, and the Indians are getting poorer and poorer. They can only rely on charity from the U.S. government and let them be slaughtered. No dignity at all.

In 1930, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs sterilized Indian women through the Indian Health Service. These sterilization surgeries were performed under the guise 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 childbearing age were sterilized. For many small tribes, this almost led to the extinction of the entire tribe. As of 1976, approximately 70,000 Indian women had been forcibly sterilized.

Beginning in 1819, the United States established boarding schools across the country. Priests, government officials and social workers took tens of thousands of Indian children aged 5 to 18 away from their homes and forcibly sent them to boarding schools.

Data show that there were 367 boarding schools in the United States in history. By 1925, 60,889 Indian children were forced to attend schools; by 1926, the proportion of Indian children enrolled in them was as high as 83%.

Does anyone say this is not a good thing? Running schools can improve the educational standards of Indians.

However, the truth behind these Indian boarding schools is that they adhere to the concept of "erasing Indian culture" and prohibit Indian children from speaking the national language, wearing national clothes, and performing national activities, erasing their language, culture, and identity, and committing cultural genocide.

Indian children were tortured in school and some died from starvation, disease, and abuse.

After that, the U.S. government launched the "forced foster care" policy, forcibly handing over Indian children to white people to raise, continuing the assimilation policy and depriving them of cultural identity. This phenomenon was not gradually banned until 1978.

The U.S. Congress also admitted: “A large number of Indian children were transferred to non-Indian families and institutions without permission, causing the fragmentation of Indian families.”

There are reports that Native American children suffered unfair treatment such as whipping, sexual abuse, forced labor, and severe malnutrition in these Indian boarding schools, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.

The Canadian Indian boarding school scandal broke out not long ago. In one school alone, the bodies of 215 Indian children were dug up. It is difficult to imagine what an astronomical number of Indian children who died tragically in the United States will be.

Regarding the US government’s forced sterilization of Indian women and the evil Indian boarding schools, due to limited space, we will talk about it here first. If you want to continue to understand, we will dig deeper later.

So what is the current situation of Indians after centuries and a half of genocide?

According to statistics, there are still about 300 Indian reservations scattered in remote areas of the United States. The survival of these reservations is not due to the "mercy" of the U.S. government, but the result of hundreds of years of desperate resistance by Indians.

But even as they struggled to survive, most Indians on reservations lived in extreme poverty.

Among all ethnic groups in the United States, Indians have the highest poverty rate, unemployment rate and youth suicide rate, while the average family income, education level and labor force participation rate are the lowest.

They suffer from systemic discrimination in the fields of 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 also worrying. The life expectancy of Indians is 5.5 years lower than the average American life expectancy. The incidence rates of diabetes, chronic liver disease, and alcohol dependence are respectively 3.2 times, 4.6 times, and 6.6 times higher than the American average.

Indians have the highest infant mortality rate of any ethnic group in the United States, and the systematic use of Indian reservations as dumping grounds for toxic waste, landfills, and nuclear weapons testing sites contributes to community cancer rates and deaths The rate is significantly higher than other regions.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, their situation is even more difficult. Statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the COVID-19 prevalence rate among Indians is 2.8 times that of white people, and the mortality rate is 1.4 times that of white people.

The new coronavirus infection rate in the Navajo Nation, the largest Indian reservation in the United States, once surpassed New York and became the highest in the United States.

The United States prides itself on being a beacon of freedom. They shout about natural human rights and that all people are created equal. However, as native-born "real Americans," Indians have been expelled, massacred, and forcibly assimilated. The combination of American political power, capital power, and religious power has The huge chain of interests formed swallowed up 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 captive, neglected, and lingering in reservations, and are about to disappear. Preserve the race.

What the American Indians experienced was like a tragic song. In the land of the United States, this tragic song belongs not only to Indians, but also to Mexicans, African Americans, and Chinese workers…

I have seen such a comment before – "The United States is so afraid that its boss will fall from his position because he will die the worst if he falls." Similarly, the U.S. government and media use the "human rights" stick to wreak havoc on other countries. Slander and slander are nothing but conjectures and projections based on one's own dark history. Please understand the applause.

Okay, that’s it for this issue, 100,000 likes, the history of America’s sins will come out after staying up late, this time for sure!

References:

1. The State Council Information Office released the "2021 Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States"

2. "American Carnage: Conquest of the New World"

3. "That Little Thing of Genocide"

4. "Blood and Land: A History of Genocide and Destruction in the World"

5. "American Genocide: The Tragedy of Native Americans in the United States and California, 1846-1873"