After reading the title one may think about some distant African land or some small island that is even hard to find on the map, but no this is about a place that preaches to everyone else about inclusivity, giving rights to natives, and many good things but how they came into existence is something not known to many, call it their smart narrative building or something else but this dark truth kept under the wraps for the common people across the globe. As per many estimations before Europeans reached the shores of the American continent, there were 55-75 million natives living there so Columbus found America was nothing more than to establish the narrative that Europe was superior, and natives were not humans. This number came down to just approx. 5 million by the year 1900. So what caused this? Why the natives being hunted like that? There are many reasons:
1. Conflict of religions, as the worship methods were different and that was a time when European religion found its way to new places and its so-called leaders decided to enforce the new rules with force, resulting in civilizational conflicts.
2. Greed for grabbing resources from others is why many parts of the world have been colonized. They wanted to loot others to become rich themselves, causing deaths and slavery for many innocents.
3. Feeling superior to others, racism and non-acceptance of others is also one of the reasons for colonization. Europe has thought of others as inferiors and savages even though most civilizations were far ahead of them regarding knowledge and wisdom. Just a small example is personal hygiene, while brushing the teeth, and having a bath were not known to Europe, people in India had such systems in place.
There are many other reasons yet they just call it a hunger to find new lands, which is again a doubtful narrative as those places already have civilizations so those parts were known to humans. So what did they do after finding an already civilized land? When they felt that in the direct conflicts, they had started very inhuman means to wipe out those people. Natives have been given blankets infected with some deadly viruses which caused mass deaths, Colonizers used to burn the villages of natives at night, they caused so many deaths that the world has observed a small ice age due to a reduction in CO2 emissions and reduced farming. Such atrocities are not being discussed in the open now, no one speaks about the rights of American native tribes on global forums or in articles in their media. So next time anyone from the West starts preaching about how one should care for native people, ask them what they are doing for the rights of natives of the American continent as their land is still occupied and there's no visible sign of their freedom.
