Union of Egoists on Nostr: Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of ...
Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide
"Burning the tents of the indigenous population has a long history in colonialism. When the Dutch ruled “New Amsterdam,” the capital of the New Netherlands, they brought in more and more settlers who were hungry for land and wanted to displace the Mohawks and Mohicans, who did not take kindly to being pushed around. The Dutch governor, Willem Krieft, became very nervous about the Native Americans, explains Walt Giersbach at Military History Online. At one point some 500 members of a small tribe, the Wappinger, moved to what is now Jersey City essentially to escape being taxed by the larger confederations. The paranoid Krieft took the movement of this small band as menacing and attacked them out of the blue in February 1643.
Historian Jon Romats Broadhead wrote of the “Pavonia Massacre,” “Warrior and squaw, sachem and child, mother and babe were alike massacred. Daybreak scarcely ended the furious slaughter. Mangled victims, seeking safety in the thickets, were driven into the river, and parents rushing to save their children, whom the soldiery had thrown into the stream, were driven back into the waters and drowned before the eyes of their unrelenting murderers.”
The snow turned red with blood and “the sky, it was reported, was lit with the fires from their tents.” The Dutch beheaded people and played kickball with the heads.
For the colonizers to burn the tents of the colonized is to declare them without domicile or connection to the land on which they were used to camping. It is to erase them from the earth."
https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/indigenous-population-technique.html
#gaza #palestine #genocide #history #indigenous
"Burning the tents of the indigenous population has a long history in colonialism. When the Dutch ruled “New Amsterdam,” the capital of the New Netherlands, they brought in more and more settlers who were hungry for land and wanted to displace the Mohawks and Mohicans, who did not take kindly to being pushed around. The Dutch governor, Willem Krieft, became very nervous about the Native Americans, explains Walt Giersbach at Military History Online. At one point some 500 members of a small tribe, the Wappinger, moved to what is now Jersey City essentially to escape being taxed by the larger confederations. The paranoid Krieft took the movement of this small band as menacing and attacked them out of the blue in February 1643.
Historian Jon Romats Broadhead wrote of the “Pavonia Massacre,” “Warrior and squaw, sachem and child, mother and babe were alike massacred. Daybreak scarcely ended the furious slaughter. Mangled victims, seeking safety in the thickets, were driven into the river, and parents rushing to save their children, whom the soldiery had thrown into the stream, were driven back into the waters and drowned before the eyes of their unrelenting murderers.”
The snow turned red with blood and “the sky, it was reported, was lit with the fires from their tents.” The Dutch beheaded people and played kickball with the heads.
For the colonizers to burn the tents of the colonized is to declare them without domicile or connection to the land on which they were used to camping. It is to erase them from the earth."
https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/indigenous-population-technique.html
#gaza #palestine #genocide #history #indigenous