THE DESERT THE OCEAN WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT... I, THE GREAT GENERAL OF A PAMPHLET ABOUT THE GERMAN TROOPS, SEND THE HERERO OF , THIS LETTER TO THE HERERO FORMERLY KNOWN AS PEOPLE. SOUTHWEST AFRICA, The Herero are no longer German sub- jects. They have mur- FROM THE GERMAN dered and stolen, they have cut off the ears, noses and other body-parts of wounded soldiers, now SUDWESTAFRIKA, out of cowardice they no longer wish to fight. I say to the people: Anyone who delivers a captain will receive 1000 Mark, whoever delivers Samuel will receive 5000 BETWEEN THE YEARS Mark.

The must however leave the land. If the populace does not do this I will force them with 1884 - 1915 the Groot Rohr [Cannon]. Within the German borders every Herero, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot.I will no longer accept women and children, I will drive them back to their people or I will let them be shot at.

These are my words to the Herero people. THE PRARIE THE INTERIOR The great General of the mighty German Kaiser

General Lothar von Trotha’s proclamation to the Herero people, issued on October 2, 1904, translated by Jan-Bart Gewald 1901: President McKinley is assassi- 1905: In the face of growing criti- nated in Buffalo, NY and is succeed- 1903: The Nama begin a rebellion 1907: The US hosts the World Expo cism at home and abroad, von Tro- WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT... ed by Theodore Roosevelt. led by Hendrik Witbooi and Jacob in Norfolk, VA in honor of the 300th tha’s orders are withdrawn and he Morenga. Despite being greatly out- Anniversary of the Jamestown set- returns to , where he is numbered, they use guerrilla tac- tlement-- the highlight exhibition is greeted as a hero. A TIMELINE...1884-1915 tics. They are joined by the Herero focused on railroads. months later. Oklahoma becomes the 46th state. 1907-1908: The camps are closed. UNITED STATES NAMIBIA The Herero population has been 1904: The Herero rebel, attacking 1908: President Taft elected. reduced from 80,000 to 15,000. 1884: Germany colonizes the area 1884: Cleveland elected president. German outposts under the lead- 30-50% of the Nama have also that is now Namibia; calls it German 1909: National Association for the ership of Samuel Maherero. The been killed. 1886: The American Federation of Southwest Africa Advancement of Colored People Labor is established and enforces German Emperor replaces Major (NAACP) is founded to restore legal an 8-hour work day. 1885 - 1888: The military governor, Leutwein with another commander, rights of African-Americans. Major , knows Lieutenant-General Lothar von Tro- 1888: Harrison elected president. nothing about Africa. He begins play- Booker T. Washington becomes the tha, who had a reputation for brutal- ing the Nama and Herero tribes off first black man to dine with the ly suppressing African resistance to each other. White settlers continue president at the White House at the German colonization in East Africa. to arrive and push tribesmen off their invitation of Roosevelt. land with bribes and unreliable deals. August 11, 1094: German troops, led by von Trotha, defeat the Herero 1889: Four new states are added 1889: The first German protective forces in the , to the Union: North Dakota, South troops are sent to South West Africa effectively ending the rebellion. Herero women forced into labour circa 1904 Dakota, Montana, and Washington. in response to the Herero’s grow- Survivors are driven into the desert 1910: Baltimore introduces segre- ing hostility. They are not meant for gated city neighborhoods for whites 1890: The Mississippi Plan dis- and not allowed to return to their combat, but as a police force. and blacks; other cities follow suit. enfranchises blacks throughout homes. the state with tests at the polls-- October 2, 1904: von Trotha issues 1912: President Wilson elected. six other Southern states would his extermination order. New Mexico and Arizona are admit- adopt similar measures over the ted as states. next two decades. 1904-1907: The Herero are system- The National American Woman 1904: The Louisiana Purchase Expo- atically killed by the German soldiers 1913: The Wilson administration Suffrage Assoication is founded. sition World’s Fair takes place in St. and by disease and starvation in the begins government-wide segrega- Idaho and Wyoming become Louis, MO from April to December. desert. Survivors are sent to labor tion of work places, restrooms, states. camps, where many women are and lunch rooms. raped and forced to perform sexual The 50th Anniversary of the Herero women forced into labour circa 1904 1892: President Cleveland elected. services for soldiers. Many Herero Emancipation Proclomation is cel- ebrated throughout the country. 1894: 134 lynchings of black people in the camps are also used as July 1914: Tensions mount be- Suffragettes form demonstrations Americans are recorded, the high- human subjects for lab experiments tween European countries, and for women's rights in Washington, est known number to occur in a designed to prove the racial inferior- World War 1 begins. Depiction of German troops fighting the ity of black people. The Nama are D.C. and London. single year in US history. Herero by German artist Richard Knotel August 4, 1914: Great Britain de- also put in camps at this point. 1915: The Superior Court in Fulton 1896: McKinley elected president. clares war on Germany 1896: There are only about 2000 At Shark Island, considered to be Country, GA accepts the charter Jim Crow segregation laws for German settlers in German South- the most brutal of the concentration for the official establishment of September 1914: At the request of "separate but equal" facilities are west Africa camps, German soldiers would send the Ku Klux Klan. the British government, South Af- validated by the Plessy vs. Fergu- Herero skulls to Berlin where they The highly controversial, rascist rican forces attempt to invade Ger- son case in the Supreme Court. Late 1890s: A cattle-virus epidemic kills many of the Herero’s cows. The would be studied by scientists. The film "The Birth of a Nation" is re- man Southwest Africa for the first colonists offer the Herero aid on process is depicted here on a post- leased in the US, chronicling two time but are defeated by German credit, and they amass huge debts. card: families in the Civil War and the forces in the Battle of Sandfontein. founding of the Ku Klux Klan in a June 1915: South African forces, positive light. It is a commercial acting under the British govern- success, despite violent protests ment, force the to sur- and an attempt fromt he NAACP render after months of fighting. to have the film banned. It be- South Africa occupies the territory. comes the first movie to ever be 1898: The Spanish-American War screened at the White House. begins-- sixteen regiments of vol- unteers are black and five black Americans go on to win Medals of Honor.

Nama family circa 1900