How many Indians did the United States slaughter?

There is an important event with far-reaching influence in American history, but the American government always avoids it again and again and never wants to take the initiative to mention it. But as long as it comes to the expansion of American territory and the development of the western region, it is a history of American expansion, that is, a history of white immigrants killing Native Americans. How many Indians did the United States slaughter?

In 1500, the total number of American Indians reached 20-47 million, while the total population of Europe at that time was only 74-88 million (source: Madison, translated by Wu Xiaoying, Millennium History of World Economy). Some scholars believe that1the number of Indians living in the United States at the beginning of the 6th century reached 30 million-1million. Maya, Aztecs and Incas all belong to Indians. Before the white colonists came to the New World, the Indians had established four slave empires in America.

George Washington, the father of the United States, personally directed the 1779 massacre against Indians. The soldiers skinned the killed Indians to make boots.

Thomas Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, who proposed that "all men are created equal", once instructed Americans to "exterminate Indians or drive them to places where we don't go."

The 7th President of the United States, andrew jackson, also publicly declared that "it is necessary to exterminate all Indian tribes". 1830, President andrew jackson signed the infamous Indian Expulsion Act. Since then, the American army can legally drive Indians out of their homes where they have lived for thousands of years and force them to move into remote Indian reservations. A Cherokee tribe was forced to move to a reservation in Oklahoma in the cold winter, which lasted for five months, and 4,000 of the 1.5 million people died on the way.

There is such a record in the Complete History of the World: "The Puritans in New England decided at the legislative meeting in 1703 that every Indian's skull was peeled off and every red species was captured, and they would be rewarded with 40 dollars; 1720, the reward for each skull skin is increased to 100 USD; 1744 stipulates that 100 (equivalent to today's $2,000) will be awarded to men over 2 years old, and 50 dollars (equivalent to today's 1000) will be awarded to women or children every time they scalp. " Stimulated by such a high reward, the bloodiest and cruelest genocide in human history took place in this new continent that Puritans yearned for most. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were only 300,000 Indians left in the United States.