| It's no secret that during the American Civil War both sides offered bounty for American Scalps, Confederate strategy was even more brutal and savage than that of their adversaries. Written instruction to the Commander of The Arizona Guards in 1862 {145 years ago and only a few years prior to the development of the motor car}, the Confederate Governor John R Naylor said:-
I learn from Lieutenant J J Jackson that Indians have been in your post for the purpose of making a treaty. The Congress of The Confederate States has passed a law declaring extermination of all hostile Indians.
You will therefore use all means to persuade the Apaches or any tribe to come in for the purpose of making peace, and when you get them together, kill all the men and women, take the children prisoners and sell them to defray the expenses of killing the Indians. Leave nothing undone and have a sufficient number of men around to ensure no Indian escapes.
A real push for Indian reservations was made and fuelled by the invention of the Colt revolver. The Iron Horse was criss crossing across the land from East to West at colossal speed. People were turning up in the boat load, new immigrants from Europe and especially Ireland {potato famine} the Indian could not be allowed to be a nuisance or be sat on land required by the white Tsunami. The 300 reservations that still exist today stand in evidence of the dismal outlook faced by these people. The Reservations are located in remote deserts and other regions of the southwest and western United States where life is hard, harsh, and virtually impossible, even under the best of circumstances.
There was total mayhem with the land, land parcelled out to settlers was reclaimed as a need for reservations, talk of gold strikes on land used as reservations and the settlers moved in, in their droves, killing, slaughtering and mutilating the Indians with total impunity.
The white Tsunami engulfed the ancestral home lands, hunting grounds and sacred places of the Native Americans and these people who survived with their lives were forced out to leave their beloved homelands.
Consequently, there is no difficulty in dropping forty thousand five hundred tons of bombs by planes on a country you are not even at war with!
Especially when they do not have the means to hit back.
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All the women take their blouses off
And the men all dance on the polka dots
It's closing time ! |