It is a cruel historical reality that the United States slaughtered nearly ten million Indians in history. Only about 2 million Indians live in the United States. So, why did Washington exterminate the Indians? Is it because of national hatred or personal hatred? This is a very complicated process.
0 1 First of all, the Indians were the earliest owners of this land. Only because of the development of great navigation technology, white people discovered the American continent and forcibly occupied the territory belonging to Indians. Then the white people were afraid that they would take back their own territory, and the Indians were very receptive to learning and more convinced of Washington's determination to slaughter them.
Secondly, before the Americans entered their territory, the Indians had been under the rule of the British, during which wars continued and people lived in poverty. However, when the American army entered its territory, the Indians formed an alliance with the British and fought to the death. After the defeat of the British army, the American army and the Indians forged a deep hatred, which was extremely unfriendly when the American army was eager to expand. It was the American army that killed the Indians.
Third, in Washington's eyes, Indians, like wolves, are all man-eating beasts, although their bodies are different. Only by completely destroying Indians can North America be peaceful and free from war. However, Indians, as aborigines, were kind to European invaders and extended a helping hand. But when they found that these invaders came to compete with them for food, territory and more and more people, they began to solve the problem by violent means. There are countless historical grievances between Indians and the United States. In American history textbooks, their history of the war of independence is also the history of Indian blood and tears.
If the United States wants to develop, they need a lot of land resources to build their homes, but their own endurance is not enough, so they point the finger at the Indians and regard them as the labor force to build their own homes. After a lot of work was done, the Indians were useless and occupied part of the land, so they were brutally killed. At that time, the way white people slaughtered Indians was cruel, and even offered a reward for their heads to be slaughtered. This was the massacre of another civilization by one civilized world at that time. So now we can also see the hypocrisy and evil of western countries.
Finally, if Indians can abide by the rules of the new civilization at that time, they can still live in harmony with other nationalities. However, due to the great gap between the two civilizations, Indians can't live in harmony with other peoples. What they want is to fight, drive Americans out of their homes, and lead to the extinction of Indian massacre bonuses for expansion. Washington even told his generals: Don't accept any peace proposal until all Indian settlements are effectively destroyed? .
In the society at that time, everything people did was for their own interests, and the law of the jungle was the portrayal at that time. The tragic fate of Indians deserves our regret, but what Americans do is for their effective survival. We should look at this problem with dialectical thinking.