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Why do most people think the Native Americans got "slaughtered"???

February 22nd, 2010 9 comments

Like the Cherokee, most tribes were isolated and with a decentralized government with allowed the British, French, Spanish, and finally the U.S. to defeat them in battle or very well lose about half a dozen wars to induce treaties like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_H…

"In his book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact (1511) to the closing of the frontier (1890), and determined that 9,156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans, and 7,193 people died from those perpetrated by Europeans. Osborn defines an atrocity as the murder, torture, or mutilation of civilians, the wounded, and prisoners.[3]"
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52 minutes ago
I also have counted the battles east and west of the Mississippi and the tally is something around, 8,727 (Amerindians) to 11,217 (U.S./British/French)

The area around the Great Lakes was a stalemate represented by Pontiac’s Rebellion, so I won’t go there.

Sources:
American Revolution (1775–1783)
Chickamauga Wars (1776-1794)
Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
Nickajack Expedition (1794)
Sabine Expedition (1806)
War of 1812 (1811–1815), including:
Tecumseh’s War (1811–1813)
Creek War (1813–1814)
Peoria War (1813)
First Seminole War (1817–1818)
Winnebago War (1827)
Black Hawk War (1832)
Pawnee Indian Territory Campaign (1834)
Creek Alabama Uprising (1835-1837)
Florida-Georgia Border War (1836)
Second Seminole War (1835–1842)
Missouri-Iowa Border War (1836)
Southwestern Frontier (Sabine) disturbances (no fighting) (1836–1837)
Osage Indian War (1837)
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Sources:
Texas-Indian Wars (1836–1875), including:
Great Raid of 1840 (1840)
Antelope Hills Expedition (1858)
Battle of Pease River (1860)
Red River War (1874–1875)
Puget Sound War (1855–1856)
Dakota War of 1862 (1862)
Colorado War (1863–1865)
Red Cloud’s War (1866–1868)
Comanche Campaign (1868–1874)
Black Hills War (1876–1877)
Nez Perce War (1877)
Pine Ridge Campaign (1890)

The Sixty Years’ War (1754–1814) was a military struggle for control of the Great Lakes region in North America, encompassing a number of wars over several generations. The term Sixty Years’ War is not widely known, and is used primarily by academic historians who specialize in various aspects of the conflict. Traditionally, the war for control of the Great Lakes region has been written about only in reference to the individual wars; the designation Sixty Years’ War provides a framework for viewing this era as a continuous whole.
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Actually, I have a lot of history books. Flames Across the Border, Pierre Berton — Dictionary of Wars: Third Edition — Stolen Continents: 500 years of Conquest and Resistance — some others at my library i read that I forget.
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I can see some of you actually read my details, but for the rest, here is what usually happened:

Great Lakes region of North America
Result Military stalemate; American Indians concede British sovereignty but compel British policy changes
Territorial
changes Portage around Niagara Falls ceded by Senecas to the British

Belligerents
British Empire American Indians
Commanders
Jeffrey Amherst,
Henry Bouquet Pontiac,
Guyasuta
Strength
~3,000 soldiers[1] ~3,500 warriors[2]
Casualties and losses
450 soldiers killed,
2,000 civilians killed or captured,
4,000 civilians displaced ~200 warriors killed, possible additional war-related deaths from DISEASE <——– 😉
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Anyway, I can see some of you don’t like to read books so I’ll conclude by saying, "We fought and fought like Braves to compel respect. We inflicted just as much casualties as you did us, yet the few times like the Navajo gets routed and sent far from their homeland overrides the victories of the Seminole, Chichimeca, Mapuche, Tlaxcallas, Zacateco, Guachichil, Iroquois, Comanche (who NEVER gave up their homeland to this day), and countless other tribes like us Cree and Anishnabe who hold vast amounts of land to this day. I know in my heart that, like in Europe — which was ravage to the point of 1/3 its population dying from the Plague ALONE — the Creator’s diseases is what killed my people."

It wasn’t the battles fought and lost that caused the near genocide of the first nations on Turtle Island, it was the thievery and genocidal actions of the Settler culture.
Read, for one: The State of Native America : genocide, colonization, and resistance