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To: longnshort who wrote (14794)	3/22/2011 11:28:01 AM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 69300

American Indians When European nations began to colonize the Americas, they ran into a problem: The Americas were already populated. They dealt with this problem by enslaving and ultimately eliminating most of the indigenous population--reducing it by approximately 95%--and deporting the survivors to undeveloped ghettoes that the government unironically referred to as "reservations." These harsh policies could not have been justified if American Indians were treated like human beings. Colonists wrote that American Indians had no religions and no governments, that they practiced savage and sometimes physically impossible acts--that they, in short, acceptable victims of genocide. In the United States, this legacy of violent conquest remains largely ignored.