"As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery."

Source : James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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