Letter: Did you know?

Dear Editor:

Racial genocide were multi-settlers mostly who had been barred from inheriting land in Europe, came here, hungry for Indian land and the resources from it. “Stolen land.”

Did you know Europeans enslaved Native Americans? In the 15th Century, the Spanish people used warfare to introduce chattel slavery. Between 1492 and 1880, an estimated 2 to 5.5 million Native Americans were slaves.

Did you know scalping is an act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp with hair attached. It generally occurred in warfare with the scalping being a trophy.

One of the earliest scalpings dates back to the mesolithic period found at a hunter gathering cemetery in Sweden. A grave was found in the Alvastra pile-dwelling in Sweden had been scalped approximately 5,000 years ago.

Did you know 90% of native Americans died from European disease? Now you know.

Johnny Mott

Sikeston, Missouri