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There were numerous tribes scattered all across the
United States long before they were discovered by foreigners The white
man. The period of the Indians was long
when they lived within the confinement of the lands they called home. These
lands that they cherished, their beliefs they cherished. They were one with the
almighty one and free for hundreds of years but in a blink of an eye, they lost
it all. They were hunted and annihilated ridiculed and persecuted. They were a
race indifferent to us but they were a race the foreigners on their lands
didn't want and by what ever means possible they meant to disperse these people
from their homes and take from them everything they owned and they did just
that.
When Christopher Columbus born 1451 the son of Domenio
Columbus stepped ashore on American soil on the 12th October 1492 everything
changed for the Indians. By the time De
Sota and Ponce De Leon arrived searching for gold and slaves many an Indian had
died at their hands. At this time there
were supposedly some 10 million Indians inhabiting the land but after three
centuries this number was reduced by 90%. The English arrived then the French
and the Dutch every Sovereign wanted a
piece of the land to claim as their own and the Indians succumbed to diseases
imported by the whites. Famine and warfare were directed at them as the white
people pushed them further and further away from their own lands so they could
claim and prosper by them.
Before 1600 there were about one million Indians who
lived north of the Rio Grande speaking some 2,000 languages but most of these
languages are dead now. These people lived mainly of the land growing maize,
fishing and hunting to feed their people. When the Europeans arrived that all
changed and destruction quickly followed as these intruders wanting what the
Indians had and what was on their lands.
In New England the tribes were hit by diseases
brought by the white men which wiped out thousands. The Indian people were
cheated by the Quakers, disgraced by the Iroquois and defeated by the Dutch in
the Esopus wars of 1660. They never stood a chance against these people and
hundred's of years later they still didn't stand a chance.
United States long before they were discovered by foreigners The white
man. The period of the Indians was long
when they lived within the confinement of the lands they called home. These
lands that they cherished, their beliefs they cherished. They were one with the
almighty one and free for hundreds of years but in a blink of an eye, they lost
it all. They were hunted and annihilated ridiculed and persecuted. They were a
race indifferent to us but they were a race the foreigners on their lands
didn't want and by what ever means possible they meant to disperse these people
from their homes and take from them everything they owned and they did just
that.
When Christopher Columbus born 1451 the son of Domenio
Columbus stepped ashore on American soil on the 12th October 1492 everything
changed for the Indians. By the time De
Sota and Ponce De Leon arrived searching for gold and slaves many an Indian had
died at their hands. At this time there
were supposedly some 10 million Indians inhabiting the land but after three
centuries this number was reduced by 90%. The English arrived then the French
and the Dutch every Sovereign wanted a
piece of the land to claim as their own and the Indians succumbed to diseases
imported by the whites. Famine and warfare were directed at them as the white
people pushed them further and further away from their own lands so they could
claim and prosper by them.
Before 1600 there were about one million Indians who
lived north of the Rio Grande speaking some 2,000 languages but most of these
languages are dead now. These people lived mainly of the land growing maize,
fishing and hunting to feed their people. When the Europeans arrived that all
changed and destruction quickly followed as these intruders wanting what the
Indians had and what was on their lands.
In New England the tribes were hit by diseases
brought by the white men which wiped out thousands. The Indian people were
cheated by the Quakers, disgraced by the Iroquois and defeated by the Dutch in
the Esopus wars of 1660. They never stood a chance against these people and
hundred's of years later they still didn't stand a chance.