Mark Reynolds’s Reviews > A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America > Status Update

Martin Delaney, unlike Frederick Douglass, is someone I’ve not heard of. But he sounds quite interesting.

“The white men are like locusts when they fly so thick that the whole sky is like a snowstorm. You may kill one, two, ten; yes, as many as the leaves in the forest yonder, and their brothers will not miss them. Count your fingers all day long and white men with guns in their hands will come faster than you can count.”
- Shakopee, Sioux chief

The 1871 Indian Appropriations Act stated:
“hereafter, no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States, shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty.”

Depressing. As I already knew, the US screwed the native Americans over and over. In 1492 there were approximately 60 million in the Americas. And now there’s essentially no trace of them.