How Americans Treated the Native Americans

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How the Americans treated the Indians.

To properly understand the Native Americans, I think it is a good idea to take a look at, and try to realize how the Colonists felt about them.

Beginning in the 1600s, the colonist began a brutal massacre of different Native Americans tribes.  This massacre resulted in the death of over nine million Native Americans by 1700. The methods used to kill Native Americans during this genocidal period included the introduction of diseases by the colonists. This hideous treatment of Native Americans continued into the 1700s, when many were captured and made to work on plantations with African American slaves.  Many rebelled and ran away from plantation life.  But, many ended up being caught, and eventually kept as slaves.

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1776 was when the Declaration of Independence was signed, which many Americans agree was the best thing to happen to American history.  However, this event did not free the Native Americans from violent treatment, nor from the dominating structure that the colonists imposed upon them. (the Americans would permit the Native Americans to live with them, but only if they dressed as Americans, and gave up everything that proved who they really were) The Declaration of independence even prevented the King of England from allying with the Indians, or helping them in any way.  Here’s what the actual text says ...

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