Rewording Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion for what they truly were, deliberated genocide, would push our most revered U.S. It is far easier to condemn crimes against humanity committed by an enemy than to recognise such atrocities within our own legacy. Perhaps because, in the American context, the Holocaust was conducted by the “other.” The Germans, the Nazi Party, the opposition. Yet, why does the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans receive significantly less collective mortification than the Holocaust? In his writings, Hitler praised America for how they “ gunned down the millions of redskins to a few hundred thousand.” His minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, on numerous occasions referenced the United States’ history with native populations as a direct educative tool for their own Final Solution.
Through massacres, forced removals, biological warfare, and separation of children, the United States of America managed to reduce their native populations from millions to a mere 230,306 by the 1900 census.Īdolf Hitler cited the United States’ as inspiration for his own Holocaust, which accounted for the loss of 6 million Jews. But the death toll did not dissipate there. The overwhelming loss of human life was so immense that scientists believe the event caused a global climate change, wherein the earth cooled due to dramatic loss of population. While precise numbers are impossible to retrieve, an estimated 56 million Natives of the Americas were either killed by Europeans or died of European diseases between Christopher Columbus arriving in 1492 and the year 1600. (Photo credit: Public Domain, altered by author)
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