https://blog.nativehope.org/how-the-destruction-of-the-buffalo-impacted-native-americans

That is a pile of buffalo skulls. And this is yet another example of how the West weaponizes food to get what it wants.

“On 26 June 1869, the prestigious Army-Navy Journal reported that ‘General Sherman remarked, in conversation the other day, that the quickest way to compel the Indians to settle down to civilized life was to send ten regiments of soldiers to the plains, with orders to shoot buffaloes until they became too scarce to support the [natives].’”

  • Muad'Dibber
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    72 years ago

    The conquering of hundreds of tribes in the US was a genocide, most of which took place less than 200 years ago, and is still ongoing. Fascism couldn’t accomplish what standard capitalist-imperialism already achieved a hundred years earlier.

    The US should be brought up on genocide charges at the UN for shit like this. It fits every line of the convention on genocide.