Roger Oberbeck: Solano Voices
California is considering giving reparations of $360,000 to descendants of Black slaves, at a cost of up to $800 billion.
There is a list of 69 massacres of Native Americans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America), where many women and children were killed, including the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre (400 killed, 1846 Sacramento River Massacre (700 killed), 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre (250 killed), and Clear Lake Massacre (400 killed).
Native American tribes have had their ancestral land taken from them illegally. The United States made 368 treaties with Native American tribes from 1778 to 1871.
As settlers moved into the Great Lakes region the Shawnee, Lenape, Miami, Ottawa, Ojibwa and Potawatomi fought a battle at Fallen Timbers, and were forced to give up large areas of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin in the Greenville Treaty.
In 1809, the Treaty of Fort Wayne between the U.S. and Lenape, Potawatomi, Miami, and Eel River tribes, took 2.5 million acres of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois for about 2 cents per acre.
While Andrew Jackson served as a federal commissioner from 1814 to 1824, he negotiated nine of 11 treaties with Choctaw, Chickasaws, Creeks, Seminoles and Cherokee southeast tribes, which gave up 50 million acres of land in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act, which the U.S. granted land west of the Mississippi River to Native American tribes who agreed to give up their homelands, which gave 25 million acres of land in the South to settlers. When many Cherokee resisted giving up their ancestral land in the southeast the U.S. signed a treaty with the Cherokee at New Echota in 1835, which traded 7 million acres of Cherokee land for $5 million. Many Cherokees…
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