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500 Years of Oppression: The Untold Dark History of Native Americans
HONORING THE WARRIORS OF RESISTANCE
For more than 500 years, Indigenous peoples across the Americas have fought not for conquest, but for survival — for land, for dignity, for sovereignty, and for future generations.
From the northern plains to the Andes, from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes, these leaders stood against empires, armies, and systems designed to erase them.
They fought not because they hated what stood before them,
but because they loved what stood behind them —
their people, their ancestors, and the land that shaped them.
Among them were:
Crazy Horse – Lakota warrior who defended the Black Hills
Zapata – champion of land and freedom in Mexico
Geronimo – Apache strategist who resisted U.S. and Mexican forces for decades
Pontiac – Odawa leader of a powerful intertribal uprising
Tecumseh – Shawnee visionary who united tribes into a confederacy
Tupac Amaru – Incan descendant who led a massive rebellion against Spanish rule
Enriquillo – Taíno leader who fought Spanish oppression in the Caribbean
Chief Joseph – Nez Perce diplomat who defended his people with unmatched dignity
Different homelands. Different languages. Different eras.
One shared struggle: to remain who they were in a world that demanded they disappear.
Today, we remember them not as relics of war,
but as ancestors of resistance —
as veterans of an unending fight for Indigenous survival, self-determination, and cultural memory.
We do not glorify war — we honor the courage to exist when existence itself was resistance.
To all our ancestors who carried the fire through centuries of darkness:
We remember. We are still here. And we continue the fight — not with bullets, but with language, land, culture, and truth.
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