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The genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous people of continent. It began with thievery, treachery, murder, and broken legal agreements. Andrew Jackson's actions during the forced removal (that's the Whitewashed historian term) of my tribe and the other tribes to the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, is where Adolf Hitler got many of his ideas on the genocide of the Jewish in Germany. The five civilized tribes forced removal from the south began with the Choctaws. It is documented by historians that Jackson had my tribe, the Mvskoke and the Cherokee rounded up and placed in over crowded holding cells to live in any type of weather and their own excrement before the move.
Just the other day my cousin told me of an incident that is not well documented in the White version of history. That event was that some of the American solidiers who forced the march had Mvskoke women and children get in a boat to cross the Mississippi. Once they were in the middle of the river they were gunned down. There are many family tales that have been handed down that are not well covered, if documented at all, in the history.
How many of you can name the five civilized tribes? After their removal from the south they began moving other tribes like the Shawnee, the Potawatomi, the Sak and Fox and many others.
The worst thing the Americans have done is the theft of land, trickery, and genocide of the Indigenous. And Andrew Jackson is burning in hell.
As an American, and on behalf of the American people, I sincerely apologize for the mistreatments of all groups mentioned here ^^^^ throughout history. I wish I could do more than this, and that lives could be brought back and hearts healed.
Definitely the mistreatment and annihilation of the Native Americans; it was (and is) an abomination. There is little pride to be had in the way the US was "founded".
The centuries of slavery and Jim-Crow segregation perpetrated against AAs just further stains the foundation of America.
Every nation has had it's share of committing evil acts against its own citizens. Darfur, Rwanda, German atrocities, Serbia, Pol Pot and the killing fields, etc.,
What will history record as the worst Atrocity on U.S. soil?
The American Holocaust/Genocide: extermination both directly by massacres and indirectly by death from foreign diseases that were introduced to the area
According to David Stannard's American Holocaust: as many as 100,000,000 (one hundred, million) Native Americans perished.
As to specific incidents, I think you'd have to include Wounded Knee. Gatling guns against women and kids in the snow? 12/29/1890. 178 killed and the rest fleeing wounded in sub-zero conditions.
For sheer savagery, I think the NYC Civil War draft riots were the worst. The 'Colored Orphanage' was set fire, the doors were nailed shut and gunmen fired on anyone trying to escape through the windows.
Although ultimately defeated, at least the American Indian had the courage capability and wherewithal to fight and defend his homeland, family and culture. Yes, The American Indians fought a good fight.
On the other hand, the African American slave never had a chance. Neither did the African American slave have the capacity, potential or hope of defending themselves or fighting for their freedom or dignity. The entire African American race endured over 300 years of slavery as a result.
Last edited by dorado0359; 06-24-2011 at 09:52 AM..
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Native American Genocide
