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Does anyone know how much they payed for to exterminate entire tribes in California? or if the law still exists i know some Indian scalps I want to sell. The policies of California were acted out and you got to admit it was genocide. I hate to admit but the Easter Bunnie is not real either. This is my last post you can research genocide in America and find so many. But you cant lead a horse to water and make him drink or not believe in the Easter Bunnie.
In his January 1851 message to the California legislature, California Governor Peter H. Burnett promised “a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct.” Newspapers cheered on the campaign. In 1853 the Yreka Herald called on the government to provide aid to “enable the citizens of the north to carry on a war of extermination until the last redskin of these tribes has been killed. Extermination is no longer a question of time–the time has arrived, the work has commenced and let the first man who says treaty or peace be regarded as a traitor.” Other newspapers voiced similar sentiments. Towns offered bounty hunters cash for every Indian head or scalp they obtained. Rewards ranged from $5 for every severed head in Shasta City in 1855 to 25 cents for a scalp in Honey Lake in 1863. One resident of Shasta City wrote about how he remembers seeing men bringing mules to town, each laden with eight to twelve Indian heads. Other regions passed laws that called for collective punishment for the whole village for crimes committed by Indians, up to the destruction of the entire village and all of its inhabitants. These policies led to the destruction of as many as 150 Native communities. Is this manafest desteny or culture shock?
And if forced eviction, relocation and starvation proved insufficient to break the Native Indian will to resist, then the U.S. Cavalry supplemented by settler militias were called in with Howitzers to execute a massacre. One such bloodbath occurred in November of 1864, when 700 militiamen, many of them drunk, surrounded and attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho village at Sand Creek, Colorado. At the end of the one-sided battle, 200 Native Indians had been killed and mutilated, over half women and children.
Even though the crime of genocide remains universally condemned by the international community, the United States government, its agencies, and its personnel have been effectively granted de facto immunity.
Yeah if you read that over and over in book you tend to believe it. But history is written by the winners not the losers. The mass murder and extinction of various tribes sums it up. You can put lipstick on a pig but its still a pig.
I think that America should embrace it genocidal history it made America what it is today. It really doesn't matter if anyone feels guilty it just should be taught the way it really happened.
Ojibwe, Ottowa, Chippewa etc. are decendents of the Hopewell People Who were People of the Hopewell* Culture? Between 2,200 and 1,500 years ago the Hopewell Cultural Expression flourished in the Eastern half of the North America continent, becoming one of the most influential cultures ever to exist in North American prehistory. Centered in what is now southern Ohio, they were epic travelers and consummate artists. Living in what is speculated to have been a singularly peaceful environment, they intentionally gathered materials for their crafts from far-flung places, apparently making epic journeys to the Great Lakes for copper, Florida for shells, the Carolinas for mica, and Yellowstone for obsidian. The Hopewell Culture?s great ceremony centers at the present Ohio cities of Newark, Chillicothe, and Portsmouth once served as what could be perceived metaphorically as the Rome of their religious influence, the Alexandria of their relics and art. So stunning were their ornaments and religious relicts that their sacred art has cross-cultural impact, even today. Using the earth as a sacred canvas. The Hopewell Culture is best known for its sacred enclosures which were created by building earthen walls up to 12 feet high, which they used to outline immense symmetrical shapes, commonly squares, circles and octagons on the surface of the earth. The large enclosures often contained areas 40 -120 acres in size, which served as ceremonial, religious and burial grounds for Hopewell communities. Enclosures also often included earthen mounds, both within and outside the earthen walls, some of them containing burials with an astonishing wealth of grave art -- hence the common name of "mound builders." Despite the Hopewell Culture?s occupation as primarily hunters and gatherers and their relatively low population density, Hopewell Culture earthworks are recognized as being among the largest prehistoric earthworks in the world.
S.J.RES.4 Title: A joint resolution to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the United States Government regarding Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States. Sponsor: Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] (introduced 3/1/2007) Cosponsors (12) Related Bills: H.J.RES.3, H.J.RES.68 Latest Major Action: 6/18/2007 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 202. Senate Reports: 110-83
*Tecumseh (Shawnee) (1811): ?Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narrangansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man?.
United States of AmericaSee also: Bureau of Indian AffairsOn September 8, 2000, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) formally apologized for the agency's participation in the "ethnic cleansing" of Western tribes.[46].[edit] Canada St. Paul's Indian Industrial School, Manitoba Canada, 1901Main article: Canadian Indian residential school systemAttempts of assimilation reached a climax in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries with forced integration. Due to laws and policies that encouraged or required Aboriginals to assimilate into a Eurocentric society, Canada may be in violation of the United Nations Genocide Convention that Canada signed in 1949 and passed through Parliament in 1952.[47] The Canadian Indian residential school system that removed Aboriginal children from their homes for placement in Christian-run schools has led scholars to believe that Canada can be tried in international court for genocide.[47] In 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an apology on behalf of the Canadian government and its citizens for the residential school system.[48]
