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The Real Savages

When we take a moment and think about Hitler, and the millions of lives he took in what we've named the Holocaust, we tend say to ourselves "that could never happen here", the truth of the matter is, it already has. About 200 years ago, in one of our nations saddest moments, the very land your standing on was used in the world's worst case of human genocide on record. During the 19th and 20th centuries there was a push to eradicate American Indian culture for good, during this time, more than 11,750,000 Native Americans were murdered, more then 5x's the amount of people killed in the Holocaust. This extreme hate brought on by the English settlers was fueled by early propaganda that spread this idea Native Americans were savage beings not worthy to live. Every time a tribe would defend their land, support only seemed to grow for their eradication. Like Hitler, the English used similar process's to carry out their genocide such as Death Marches, biological......

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