NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE MemorialThe killing of the people and the killing of the culture of the first true Americans

WHY should we have a Memorial for the Native Americans? The Natives Americans are the most oppressed

people of the world Suffered in the hands of colonizers: Were

enslaved, used, sexually abused, ignored, massacred and diminished

The population of the Native Americans ( ALL OF THE AMERICAS) before Columbus are estimated to be between 80- 100 million. Today, there is not even 10 million.

Indians were looked down upon, discriminated, rejected and massacred for nearly four centuries.

The Memorial The memorial is divided into 5 parts, that are scattered all over the continent of America. They each represent a region where Indian extermination took place:

South America, North America, The Caribbean sea, and Mexico and Central America.

The 5th part is called “Silent Hope” and it represents the remaining Indians today

The four parts will be shaped like a puzzle, and in theory, if they where pulled together, would form a circle. However they are not one together to symbolize the diversity and the division of the Indian across the two American continents

The four monuments will also be made of materials from that certain region and will also portrait the Indian culture and native symbols of the culture directly related to their demise

The Caribbean Sea Natives – The first ones They were the Indians who had it worst, who could not defend

themselves. It will be located in Santo Domingo, in the Island of Hispaniola The centerpiece will be a young native man, chained and on

his knees crying to the heavens, while being whipped by a colonizer. This man is spotted, representing the many diseases that Europeans spread. Behind him is the colonizer holding a whip in one hand and in the other a crucifix representing the religion they (colonizers) claimed to carry - Christianity, which Indians were forced to believe, and the whip representing the awful slaughters that the Indians suffered

Around the Centerpiece will be a big grave yard, symbolizing the Native Taíno extinguish.

It will all be made of ancient stone and marble

One day, in front of Las Casas, the Spanish dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 people. 'Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight,' he says, 'as no age can parallel....' The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that 'devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment.'

They used nursing infants for dog food."

South America Natives monument The central piece would be a monument which would honor

the “Indian people of the mountain” – The Nazcas and the Incas, and they would be made out of silver. It depicts the great chief in gold and silver, while a mischievous Spaniard conquistador comes to greet him while holding a gun to his side, with a malevolent smile on their face. This represents the treacherous approach the Spaniards had towards the South American Indians. The Statue of the chief, a tall man who represents the greatness of the nation, is vested in silver, and that represents the Indians wealth in South America, especially of silver. The monument surrounding is also decorated in typical Indian artifacts, imprinted of the stone monument’s floor

The monument will be located in the ancient city of Cuzco, the past capital of the Inca Empire, and also their place of surrender.

Mexico and Central America

The exact location of this monument would be at the heart of the bustling city of Mexico, the reason being it was the ancient capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenóchitlan.

The centerpiece would be a bold Aztec male warrior holding a spear in his hand, standing tall and proud, and this statue would be completely golden. He threatened the statue in front of him, a conquistador holding a huge rifle to his face, his eyes made out of solid gold. The conquistador possesses vicious characteristics, even though he is less muscular and big than the Aztec fighter, he is definitely the one with the dominance over the Indian.

The Aztec where the richest and more powerful of the tribes in all of the Americas

North American Indians: The rejected ones. The statue depicts and Indian little girl with a teary eye

holding a piece of paper that says DENIED. The little girl represents the massacre that ran ramped in North America: seclusion, segregation. The greatest difference in this monument from the other monuments is that the little girl would stand alone (while in the others, there is the presence of the colonizer). She represents the people that were on the march of the Trail of Tears, the Indians that were secluded from the Early American settlers and the last Indians who were driven out of their lands in the plains. Her DENIED sign represents the fact that the Indians were denied the right of autonomy to defend their lands legally

It will be located in Oklahoma City, OK, because that’s where the natives where “thrown” into.

The “Silent Hope”

Represents the last stand of the Native Indians In centerpiece of this monument, the sculpture is of

a girl hiding in the forest, in the bushes, only her eyes visible. In front of her is a goblet filled with water, and in this water is written in small golden and silver tablets the names of the Indian leaders who died trying to protect their people, all the resisters of colonizer oppression. The girl is hiding from it, because it proves to her that her kind is no longer valued. All of the monument is white marble, and it will be located in New York City, the most important city in the World