The inner confession of an Indian tribal chief

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Indian is a general term for all Native Americans except the Eskimos. The vast majority of native Americans are Indians.

The Complete History of the World has the following text: "In the United States, the civilized country of the world at that time, this genocidal policy came even more ferociously, and they repeatedly raised the reward for the massacre of Indians." In 1703, the scrupulous Protestant masters, the Puritans of New England, decided in their legislative council that a bounty of 40 pounds would be paid for every Indian's skull and for every red man captured. In 1720, the bounty was raised to £100 per skullpit, and in 1744, after a tribe in massachusetts Bay was declared a traitor, a reward was prescribed: S$100 for every man over the age of 12 whose skullpile was peeled,...... Fifty pounds for every woman or child whose head is peeled! 》

In 1783, after the independence of the United States, the massacre and abuse of Indians did not relent. With the rapid development of capitalism, in order to open up territory, the U.S. government expelled Indians from their ancestral homeland. In 1830, the U.S. government passed the Indian Removal Act, which required all Indians in the east to move to the reserved areas west of the Mississippi River for them, to be separated and persecuted. Most of these "Indian reservations" are remote, barren mountainous or desert areas. A tribe named Cherokee was forced to move to the "Indian Quasi-State" (present-day Oklahoma) and killed about 4,000 people, or 25 percent of the tribe's population, over a period of 3-5 months. This tragedy came to be known as the "Judgment of Blood and Tears." Indians have long been massacred, besieged, expelled, forced to migrate, and their numbers have decreased dramatically.

The genocide of Indians for the plundering of land and resources is one of america's unspeakable colonial crimes. In the hundred years since the founding of the United States, the United States has systematically and massively expelled and massacred these indigenous people who have lived on the North American continent for generations.

Several U.S. administrations have issued policies to encourage the massacre of Indians. In 1814, U.S. President James Madison decreed that for every Indian cap handed over, the U.S. government would award $50 to $100. From the 1860s to the 1890s, Lincoln's Homestead Act brought the slaughter of Indians to a climax. The law stipulates that every U.S. citizen who turns 21 or older pays a $10 registration fee to acquire no more than 160 acres (about 64.75 hectares) of land in the West. Tempted by land and bounties, whites ran to the area where the Indians were located to massacre.

General Sherman during the American Civil War even left such a sentence: "Only dead Indians are good Indians." 》

Under the threat of U.S. government force, in the 1830s, Indians living in the eastern United States were forcibly relocated to the area west of the Mississippi River, where thousands of people died of hunger or disease. This migration road, which has staged countless tragedies, has been called the "Road of Blood and Tears" by posterity.

Historical records record that the US government also used a lot of damage tricks and shady tricks to expel indians. From the 1870s onwards, the U.S. government hired a large number of hunters to hunt the North American bison on which the Indians depended, and the sharp decline in the number of bison made it difficult for the Indian tribes to survive; some officials often took advantage of the simplicity of the Indians to intimidate them and force them to move away in fear.

Between 1887 and 1933, the American Indians were stripped of about 90 million acres (364,200 square kilometers) of land; from the late 15th to early 20th centuries, the American Indian population plummeted from 5 million to 250,000. This is the real "genocide" in human history.

It was not until 1924 that the United States Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all persons born in the United States to be U.S. citizens. In 1934, the United States passed the Indian Reorganization Act under President Roosevelt's "New Deal", which allowed Indians to establish their own government, no longer distribute land on reserves, and stopped the policy of forcing Indians to abandon traditional culture and religion, and the situation of Indians improved. It was not exterminated.

At the end of 2018, Indians made up about 2 percent of the nation's population, and 22 percent of them lived on Indian reservations. These reserves are mainly located in the barren Midwest, with the smallest being only 0.5 square kilometers. 21.9 percent of Indians live below the poverty line, some tribes have unemployment rates as high as 85 percent, and life expectancy is 5.5 years lower than the U.S. life expectancy.