Farhad on Nostr: US did the same with the natives, it is one of those things they do not teach you in ...
US did the same with the natives, it is one of those things they do not teach you in school.
They killed millions of natives and then starved the rest of them to death, gave them cheap alcohol and watched them destroy themselves.
This is how they whitewash it:
allthatsinteresting.com/buffal…
Overall, between 1800 and 1900, the bison population was brought down from the estimated 30-60 million to approximately 325. While more exact statistics on the amount of bison killed by settlers are hard to come by, the full scope of the problem can be glimpsed in the numbers from one railroad company: 500,000 bison hides shipped east between just 1872 and 1874.
Not a word about the main reason behind the mass slaughter, to remove the chance for the natives to have access to food!
They killed millions of natives and then starved the rest of them to death, gave them cheap alcohol and watched them destroy themselves.
This is how they whitewash it:
allthatsinteresting.com/buffal…
Overall, between 1800 and 1900, the bison population was brought down from the estimated 30-60 million to approximately 325. While more exact statistics on the amount of bison killed by settlers are hard to come by, the full scope of the problem can be glimpsed in the numbers from one railroad company: 500,000 bison hides shipped east between just 1872 and 1874.
Not a word about the main reason behind the mass slaughter, to remove the chance for the natives to have access to food!