In 1836, William Apess, the Native American author of Eulogy on King Philip, wrote: " ...given historical facts, and an exposition in relation to ancient times, we have been enabled to discover the foundation which destroyed our common fathers, in thier struggle together; it was indeed nothing more than the spirit of avarice and usurpaton of power that has brought people in all ages to hate and devour each other."

At the beginning of the 17th century, there were approximately one hundred (100) independent indigenous populations of Native Americans speaking eight (8) different language groups in what is now the United States of America.

Native Americans had their own language, culture, and religious beliefs. They were cast as non-Christian infidels and uncivilized because of these differences. They also had land, in fact the entire North American Continent, that the emigrating hordes of European barbarians, and their equally barbaric decedents, coveted. In fact, some of our "founding fathers" enriched themselves as land speculators.

"The practice of buying title to Indians' land is thus nothing but a new mode of acquistion...substituted in place of violence...which should...make us masters of the lands that we claim by virtue of discovery....by the right of civilized nations to settle territory occupied by savage tribes." Further,..."various causes have steadily diminished the price of the ground that the Indians' occupy. Hence the practice of purchasing (land)...from the savages has never retarded the prosperity of the United States......"(Report to Congress, February 24, 1830), and
"This is how the Americans acquire for next to nothing entire provinces (48 million acres in 1808 for $1000; 20 million acres in 1818 for $4000) that the wealthiest sovereigns in Europe could not afford to buy."(Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835).

These human beings were systematically exterminated, initially by Spain, France, Great Britain, Holland, and Russia, and subsequently by successive generations of European settlers, as well as by the policies of early state (Senator/Governor Wilson Lumpkin of Georgia) and federal administrations (Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson).
President Jefferson, through his federal agents, suggested using the insidious policy of extending unlimited credit to Native Americans for the purchase of goods, and then demanding their lands in payment therof. In 1803 Jefferson wrote to William Henry Harrison regarding treaty negotiations with Native Americans: "We presume that our strength and their weakness is now so visible that they must see we have only to shut our hands to crush them." This from a man who 27 years previously, in an historic critique of repressive government, pinned in the Declaration of Independence the incontestable right of man to life, liberity and the pursuit of happiness. And in 1817, in an exchange with President Monroe, the infamous Andrew Jackson stated: "Indians are the subjects of the United States....whenever"...circumstances.."should render it necessary for the government of the United States to occupy and possess any part of the territory, used by them for hunting"...Congress had "the right to take it and dispose of it". This was preparatory for the then President Jackson's and Congress's inhuman policy of "Removal" that displaced and killed tens of thousands of Native Americans.
"As the Indians withdrew and died, a vast and steady growing people (white Europeans) came to take their place. Never has such a prodigious development been seen among the nations of the world, nor such a rapid distruction." (Legislative Document, 20th Congress, Number 117).

In a belated attempt (1832) to check, what appeared to have become the fate of Native Americans, Chief Justice John Marshall declared in Worcester v. Georgia those repugnant and inhumane laws of the Georgia Legislature, directed at the Cherokee Nation, unconstitutional. The avariciousness and flagitiousness of the times, however, were not to be denied. Both the State of Georgia as well as President Andrew Jackson rebuffed the Supreme Court and refused to implement the courts decision.
"Let the children of the pilgrims blush, while the son of the forest drops a tear, and groans over the fate of his murdered and departed fathers...let every man of color wrap himself in mourning, for the 22d of December and the 4th of July are days of mourning and not of joy."(Willaim Apess, Eulogy on King Philip, 1836). December 22nd represented the date for the Pilgrims arrival in this country.
The high ideals of freedom, self determination, and the pursuit of happiness, enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, were for those who were white and Christian and of European ancestory.
"If we judge of the future by the past, we must anticipate....the eventual extinction of their race. For this not to occur,....there would have to be a complete change in our relations with them, which would be rather unreasonable to expect."(Messers Clark and Lewis Cass; report to Congress February 4, 1829)......

........... a policy of genocide, unparalleled in human history, for approximately four hundred years.