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Native American Genocide
The dominant image of Indians in the media used to be of savages, of John Wayne leading the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians. Today the stereotype has shifted to noble savage, which portrays Indians as part of a once-great but now-dying culture; a culture that could talk to the trees and the animals and that protected nature. But sadly, a losing culture, which has not kept up with our ....
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.... the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day.
That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom the college and the Massachusetts town are named, had sent disease-bearing blankets as "peace offerings" to a hostile Indian tribe near what is now Pittsburg ....
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