Christopher Columbus lands on a Caribbean Island after three months of traveling. Believing at first that he had reached the East Indies, he describes the natives he meets as “Indians.”
On his first day, he orders six natives to be seized as servants
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1970s
Forced Sterilization
In the 1970s thousands of Native American women underwent sterilization procedures against their will or without their consent. As many as half of the Indian women and teens of child-bearing age were victimized by government policy and practice intended to control the Native population, reduce the financial burden on taxpayers and provide physicians with extra experience and income.
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