Chapter 1 describes when it began that the first native Indians got into slavery of the White due to the discovery of what Columbus thought was India (giving the inhabitants the name Indio), but in fact was America (he landed in San Salvador on October 12, 1492). He described them as the most friendly and peaceful people in the world, but nonetheless stated that they should adopt European working habits and be christianised. It followed that many of …showed first 75 words of 663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 663 total…and the Whites retaliated this by killing all their livestock, leaving them with nothing to breed or eat and also having to adopt White behaviour, as happened with the Modocs or Nez Percés, who lived in the far West (northern California and southern Oregon). These struggles continued for another thirty years onward from the beginning of the Civil War, before in December 1890, the final end of Indian freedom in America came at Wounded Knee.