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An American Holocaust Introduction Native Americans have been miss understood and ill-treated by their conquerors for over 300 years (Healey, 1997). Believing that he had reached the West Indies Christopher Columbus called the indigenous population the “people of India” (Schaefer, 1996). Many of the people in the United States today view Thanksgiving and the discovery of the “New World” by Columbus as a milestone to the development of this Nation. In reality the arrival of the Europeans throughout North America produced a demographic breakdown of the American Indian people. This paper will investigate the effect of institutional racism perpetuated historically by the U.S. Government on Native Americans. It will outline how the arrival of the Anglo-European fore fathers of America have unintentionally, intentionally, and systematically destroyed the American Indian way of life. American Indian Demise to Disease Many people believe that the Europeans defeated American Indian tribes because they were inferior on the battlefield. Although, many have been destroyed through warfare, the vast majority of them have been conquered because they had no resistance to the multitude of diseases brought to this contin