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really? They had forced abortions and internal passports that dictated where in the country you could live? And the US government ran tanks over people who pro
by patrickg-zill 19y ago
really? They had forced abortions and internal passports that dictated where in the country you could live? And the US government ran tanks over people who protested?
- nostrademons 19y agoNope. They gave you smallpox-infested blankets, made you walk thousands of miles to the reservation, and massacred you if you resisted.
- giardini 19y agoThese things _did_ occur, but they are not the cause of the demise of the Native American. The mere _arrival_ of Europeans, who carried diseases to which Native Americans were not immune, doomed them. These diseases were rapidly spread to any who traded with Europeans and thence to the innermost regions of North (and South) America. Most Native Americans died of transmitted European diseases long before they had any any opportunity to glimpse a "white man". The Native Americans were so decimated by the time of the massacres and reservations that entire tribes had to migrate and merge, losing their unique identities, in order to merely survive.