Native American Genocide by Britain Wiped Out 95% of the Population.

While the English did not discover the New World, they were quick to set up colonies and exploit the continent and its people.

Spain, at the time the world's most powerful empire, gained huge footholds in the new world.

Their ruthless tactics with the natives led to unimaginable wealth in the form of gold, silver and slaves.

These lessons did not fall on deaf ears; the British established colonies all along the eastern seaboard.

Pilgrims fleeing religious persecution were some of the first to arrive in North America with the intention of permanent settlement.

The Natives American did not consider these people a threat for the most part.

Skirmishes over land and other resources were sporadic but for the most part the new comers were ignored.

The natives had bigger issues to be concerned with, as they lived in a world controlled by a network of tribes with enemies and allies based on hundreds of years of co-existence.

As the amount of immigrants from England and the old world came over they slowly pushed the Native Americans further west.

By the time the Native Americans realized that their land was being taken and would never return to their possession it was too late. Not even the larger federations of tribes, like the Iroquois, were able to stand up against the modern armies of the British and French.

In the end they allied themselves with these Europeans in order to gain control over neighboring tribes or protect themselves.

This policy of pushing Natives constantly west and taking land as they saw fit would manifest itself into a Native American genocide by Britain, that would end in over 100 million dead and 95% of the native population gone.

THANKSGIVING: THE BEGINING OF THE END

Had the Natives of New England known that eventually a Native American genocide by Britain would occur they would have met the pilgrims with hatchets instead of corn.

VICTORY BY ANY MEANS

Regarded as an inferior people, the Native Americans were treated with contempt and abuse by the British. They used them as scouts and military allies when it suited them, but once they had defeated the French, the natives were nothing more than a nuisance.

Having no immunity to European diseases the natives were easily susceptible to sickness and death from small pox and other common sicknesses. British officers would often pass out small pox infected blankets to tribes, condemning men, women and children to slow and painful deaths.

What guns and armies couldn't achieve in the Native American genocide by Britain, illness did.

DISTURBING LEGACY

The first Americans were predominantly British and had experience dealing with natives. George Washington worked closely with natives during the French and Indian War, and knew their tactics and way of living well.

Washington and others learned a lot from the attempted Native American genocide by Britain and adopted many of the policies for themselves. They adopted the British policies of expansionism at any cost.

This became the de facto American policy pushing natives west as Manifest Destiny became the policy of the new government. Like the British, the Americans believed they had a mandate from God to conquer this land, natives be damned.

These policies led to over 100 million Native Americans dying and 95% of their population disappearing. Ancient and unique cultures were destroyed in the name of progress, power and money.