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The dominant image of Indians in the media used to be of savages, of John Wayne leading the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians. Today the stereotype has shifted to noble savage, which portrays Indians as part of a once-great but now-dying culture; a culture that cou ....

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.... of a racial, political, or cultural group” or the killing of a people. When genocide is spoke of, most people think of the Holocaust, or the troubles in Bosnia, but not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day. That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by wha ....