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⏪️ The image shows a Native American girl crying at the Geneva Conference in 1988 while speaking about the crime of sterilizing thousands of Native American women by the U.S. administration without their knowledge in order to limit the reproduction of Native Americans. This was not the only crime they committed. British settlers gave Native Americans blankets as what appeared to be a kind gesture, while they were hiding great malice. Those blankets were contaminated with the smallpox virus, which killed millions of them, and historians consider it the first biological war in history. Native Americans also suffered from starvation to death when settlers gathered herds of bison (whose meat was the primary food source for Native Americans) and killed them. The number of Native American victims throughout history exceeds 100 million people. This is the figure stated in historical references, and the original number may be much higher.