Columbus: Buff and Ready for Genocide | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Sept. 29, 2014

“Indian Removal, as it has been politely called, cleaned the land for white occupancy between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, cleared it for cotton in the South and grain in the North, for expansion, immigration, canals, railroads, new cities, and the building of a huge continental empire clear across to the Pacific Ocean.”

- Howard Zinn

According to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the estimated pre-1492 population of what is now called the United States ranges from 5 million to 15 million. By the late 1800s, the number of indigenous people was down to 25,000. Such a holocaust is only possible if the long traditional of dehumanization is utilized as a shield of denial.

"There is a profound historical legacy in the United States, going back to people like George Washington, for example, describing Indians as ‘wild beasts of the forest’ and ‘savage as the wolf,’” explains Ward Churchill.

Broken treaties (more than 400 signed and every single one broken), innumerable massacres (from the deliberate genocide of Powhatans to the slaughter at Wounded Knee), forced marches (i.e. the Trail of Tears relocating the Cherokee Nation from Georgia to Oklahoma), and federally sanctioned dehumanization… the treatment of Native Americans reads like a hideous catalogue of crime.

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[BlueJazz]

1. Yep...and you know what? If there were indigenous people "in the way", leading to the west coast,..

... (Today)...the sociopaths that run corporations would find a way to clear them out.
Not as obvious as in the past but the job WOULD get done.

[SamKnause]

2. It has never stopped.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/03/30/487080/-John-McCain-Indian-Agent#

Excellent detailed article.

I also saw a documentary on the subject.