unknown wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Happy Independence America.. Happy 4th of July. Or is it a Lie?
232 years ago we declared our independence and freedom. But it wasn’t that simple. In the process, we annihilated others so that we can claim the land and “freedom.” We eradicated the indigenous American Indians.
An estimated nation of 12,000,000 was reduced to mere thousands and approximately 230,000.
The early Americans (Europeans) brought with them not only a desire and will to conquer the new continent for all its material richness, but they also brought with them diseases that hit the Indians hard. Conflicts developed between the Native Americans and the Invaders, the latter arriving in overwhelming numbers, as many “as the stars in heaven”. The Europeans were accustomed to own land and laid claim to it while they considered the Indians to be nomads with no interest to claim land ownership. The conflicts led to the Indian Wars, […]
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