From as early as the time of the early European
settlers, Native Americans have suffered
tremendously. Native Americans during the time of
the early settlers where treated very badly. Europeans
did what they wanted with the Native Americans, and
when a group of Native Americans would stand up for
themselves, the European would quickly put them down.
The Native Americans bow and arrows where no match
for the Europeans guns and cannon balls. When the
Europeans guns didn't work for the Europeans, the disease
they bought killed the Native Americans even more
effectively. In a poem by Louise Enrich called Dear John
Wayne a line from a cowboy and Indian movie states the
position of many European settlers in the Americas
"Everything we see belongs to us".
Native Americans did not like the way they were being
treated. Every generation that passes, there would be fewer
and fewer Native Americans around the Americas. Native
Americans were dying like flies flying......
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