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The Native American Indian genocide was a deliberate, calculated and insidious attempt at destroying the native peoples. It is considered to be one of the most horrific genocides known to man. It has been estimated that there were up to 25 million natives in North America before the white man came. By the 1890's there were known only to be approximately 250,000. Of course those figures cannot be truly known just by their nature and time period, but the point is the devastation percentage wise is unequaled. The white man, given their belief in their basic right to the lands and their arrogance in thinking they were superior to everyone else, systematically set to destroy the Indian. This was accomplished in many ways. First, their weapons were superior. Then there were diseases, murder of infants, children and women to erradicate the native on that level, poisoning of water sources, destruction of food sources, etc etc. The Indian also has to absorb some responsibility. They trusted these new people to live up to their words. They didn't band together until much too late. So many young abandoned the old ways and embraced alchohol. In the end, the American Indian was not totally defeated. Those who held on to their spirituality survived the ongoing war against the Indian. What happened was inevitable. The way it happened was unconscionable.

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