The Black Hawk War - Deception and Demise

The systematic slaughter of the Native Americans from the time of Columbus to the time of Roosevelt has often been compared to the holocaust of Jews in nazi Germany. Millions of Native Americans were brutally tortured and murdered by an invasion of foreign forces so as to steal their land and recourses (Churchill,126). Those who were not exterminated were forcefully removed from their land (either at gunpoint, the point of a bayonet or by forged …

…colonial white settlers prevented the white settler from even considering taking the Indians and their treaties with the Indians seriously. It was not considered a crime to kill the Indians and deprive them of their rights to their space and their way of life, just as the Jews were deprived of their lives in nazi Germany. Sadly, it is quite common for disputes such as these to be solved by violent, rather than diplomatic, means.