Do you know while it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America, before the arrival of Columbus,
there has been estimates range from 7 million to a high of 18 million people?
[6] However, if you look around today, chances are, a Native American is very hard to find.
In
March 11, 1824, the United States Department of War (later renamed
Department of Defense in 1949) created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some 189 years later, the fate of the native Americans in America is best illustrated by their absence from the map above.
Once I heard a saying: "when a wrong man uses the right mean, the right mean works
the wrong way."
So is it Department of War or Department of Defense? Euphemism aside, the done deed is the same.
This got me thinking... Perhaps, it is just as important to know how to start something as to know how to stop. As history has shown us here in this case, not doing something could be just as virtuous a thing.
Looking at the state of world today, do we as people learn anything from our history? I know whatever you do, it's best not to ask an Native American for answer, that is, if you can find one to ask.
