Brave Conquerors of Weakened Tribes

Brave Conquerors Of Weakened Tribes They could never in any great haste their false glory dare to forsake. Why abandon that gleam in their eyes for truth in those sad tomorrows? Dwell not in that bitter splendor A victor with a yellow wreath. In pride hide being a lying pretender never giving up what fate bequeath! Restless spirits from vanquished foes can not invade that haughty parade. Brave conquerors of weakened tribes living out a false, arrogant charade. History now reveals the dishonor disguised. And tales of false victories cleverly contrived! Robert J. Lindley, 10-14-2015 Note- http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1...americans.html In the past, the main thrust of the Holocaust/Genocide Project's magazine, An End To Intolerance, has been the genocides that occurred in history and outside of the United States. Still, what we mustn't forget is that mass killing of Native Americans occurred in our own country. As a result, bigotry and racial discrimination still exist. "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" . . . and made the first contact with the "Indians." For Native Americans, the world after 1492 would never be the same. This date marked the beginning of the long road of persecution and genocide of Native Americans, our indigenous people. Genocide was an important cause of the decline for many tribes. "By conservative estimates, the population of the United states prior to European contact was greater than 12 million. Four centuries later, the count was reduced by 95% to 237 thousand. In 1493, when Columbus returned to the Hispaniola, he quickly implemented policies of slavery and mass extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean. Within three years, five million were dead. Las Casas, the primary historian of the Columbian era, writes of many accounts of the horrors that the Spanish colonists inflicted upon the indigenous population: hanging them en mass, hacking their children into pieces to be used as dog feed, and other horrid cruelties. The works of Las Casas are often omitted from popular American history books and courses because Columbus is considered a hero by many, even today.