Got away with murder

I would like for you to think about this opening paragraph. Inspired by the extermination of the 100 million Native American ‘Indians’ from 1500s-1800s Adolf Hitler slaughtered 6 million Jews. No one forgets about the six million Jews that were killed. But what about one hundred million Indians?
The term “Final Solution” was not coined by the Nazis. It was Indian Affairs Superintendent, Duncan Campbell Scott, Canada’s Adolf Eichmann, who in April 1910 plotted out the planned murder to take care of the “Indian problem.”

North Americans do not want to reveal that there was and still, is a systematic plan to destroy most of the native people by outright murder by bounty hunters and land grabbers, disease through distributing smallpox infested blankets, relocation, theft of children who were placed in concentration camps called “residential schools” and White Washing or AKA assimilation.

The only true remembrance in North America is of those that slaughtered the Indian. For example: In the west, there are a whole series of Eichmanns. General Amherst ordered the distribution of smallpox infested blankets to kill our people. But his name is shamelessly preserved in the names of towns and streets. George Washington is called the “village burner” in Mohawk because of all the villages he ordered burnt. Villages would be surrounded. As the people came running out, they would be shot, stabbed, women, children, and elders alike. In one campaign alone “hundreds of thousands died, from New York across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and into Ohio.” His name graces the capital of the United States. And don’t even get me started on Lincoln and others.

But as I said, no one remembers, or should I say wants to remember.

I will close with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it.” 

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