[2012] Native Americans
‘slaughtered, sacrificed, fenced in reservations’ in US According to
the US data, when Europeans came here, there were around 12 million Indians
across 48 states. By the early 20th century, only 250,000 Native Americans
survived. About 70% of Indians are refugees in their own country; they have been
displaced from their own land. The US carried out an unparalleled genocide: they
killed 99.6% Indians.
Holocausts A deluge of words was written on this topic. Hundreds of facets
of this issue can be argued, but no amount of words can obscure the glacial
reality of the fact that among the countless atrocities of the last centuries,
by far the greatest were the genocide of the native Americans (magnitude of this
holocaust is estimated by David Stannard in his American Holocaust, 1992, pp.
74-75, p.151) to be 100 million people for the hemisphere and 18 million for
the area north of Mexico), deaths associated with the slavery trade
(estimated to be 28 million people, cf., Stannard, p. 151) , and the holocaust
of the Jewish people (estimated to be 6 million people). According to 1909
Census, the number of Cherokees was 369,035, Navajo 225,298, Sioux 107,321,
Apache 53,330, Cheyenne 11,809 and Comanche 11,437. In the 1910, the total
population of North American Indians was about 400,000, down from about 18 -19
million in 1492
http://www.visualstatistics.net/east-west/genocide/genocide.htm
References
Barlowe, A. (1584) In Quinn, D. B. The Roanoke Voyages: 1584-1590. London:
Haklyut Society, 1955.
Brando, M. (1994) Songs My Mother Taught Me. New York: Random House.
North, G. (1989) Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism. Tyler, Tx:
Institute for Christian Economics.
Stannard, D. E. (1992) The Conquest of the New World: American Holocaust. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Wiesel, E. (1985, Vol. 1, p.33) in Abrahamson, (Ed.) Against Silence: The Voice
and Vision of Elie Wiesel. New York: Holocaust Library
To put things in perspective, this is how Indian land
disappeared between 1775 and 1992 in the United States of America, where over
100 million men, women and children were slaughtered, in what amounts to the
largest case of willful genocide in human history. When we read about terrorism
and homefront security, we need to look at this what real terrorism has looked
like right here at home. You could also
realize that the extermination of N. Americans was in full swing during this
period, 1775 -1875, and 100 Million Indians were killed, resulting in the worst
holocaust suffered by any race of people in the history of the world!
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