The Trail of Tears
They took all the land
When they discovered the gold.
The treaties were worthless
That had not even grown old.
They drove them away
On a great march of shame.
Thousands died on the way
Though they weren’t to blame.
All they received
For their misery and suffering
Was a measly promise –
A peace offering.
Opher 28.6.2018
The genocide practiced on the Native American Indians was a stain on the USA.
They lied over treaties.
They used smallpox infested blankets.
They deliberately exterminated the plains bison to starve them.
They stole their land.
They hunted them down and killed women and children.
Even in the twentieth century they stole their children to educate elsewhere.
Finally they forced them onto reservations and force-marched them hundreds of miles in the snow on a Trail of Tears on which thousands died.
