Why does everyone know about Hitler.. but?

Question

why doesn't anyone acknowledge that white people almost killed off an entire race , stole all of their land, and took over this country as if we were here first........when we were NOT. Native American Indians lived here......... why does everyone think this was ok ??

Answer 1

I don't think people think of it as OK, people think of it as something that is in the past and cannot be changed.

Answer 2

Well, it's not that everyone thinks it was OK, although I'm sure there are people of that opinion, instead it's just that white Americans don't like to acknowledge that as a part of their heritage. It was terrible but there is very little to do about it now. It would be impossible for all the white people to pack up and go home and give the native Americans back their land. As for why everyone knows about Hitler, it is much more recent history, and there are still those alive who remember him and his horrible acts.

Answer 3

No one can undo the past. It's time to get over the slaughter, slavery and separation and look towards the future. None of that stuff is okay, but dwelling on it and getting all ticked off isn't going to undo it and it's not going to help make anything better now either. Do you realize how much money those Indian Casinos make nowadays? I have a friend with a Native American heretige and he paid next to NOTHING to go to college. The Native American people are getting their retributions.

Chew on this for awhile, though:

Would you be living in America if our ancestors hadn't done what they did? Probably NOT. And if our ancestors didn't do it - someone else probably would have done it. History is full of tragedy, full of stories of humans treating other humans like dirt because we lust for money and power. America isn't the only country that was invaded by another country only to have it's people murdered for it's land. Study your world history and you will see evidence of this.

No one thinks this is okay - no one with a heart and soul anyway, but really, as I said before - WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT NOW that we aren't all ready doing?

Tell you what, honey, when you discover the means of time travel - you let me know and we'll go fix it together, but in doing so - we might just make things worse.

Answer 4

I agree with you. But I think the reason for that is, is that Hitler with Japan brought the world to a war, along with killing over 4 million, Jew's, homosexuals, and handicapped people for his "Master Race". So therefor he got more reconizaton. What happened in the Americas, was tragic. But you also got to remember that the Spaniards did the same in South America. I think the early founders that did that, were scared of the native Americans for the way they lived. Also It was different from there society and looked at that as a threat to there intrest. And to there way of life. That's why i think they did it.

Answer 5

I don't think anyone is Okay with any genocide. The reason Hitler gets more press is how recent it is. There are many people still alive who saw those things with their own eyes. But Indian genocide was many generations ago.

Thought we should never forget where we came from, we should not expect people to pay for the sins of their forefathers. America has a great and horrible past, but to most people our future is more important. If we focus to much on our past we will have no future at all.

Answer 6

Whuh? Who told you it was o.k.? The mormons will disagree with who was here first, but..... Sane white people look on that time with shame. It's not a pretty history period, but it's in the past. There's more evidence to point out that there's regret, and sincere sorrow on the part of america as a nation, for what was done to the native people. The difference is that Hitler never turned 180 and admitted he was wrong, then attempted to right what he'd done. (as if it's possible in either case)

Answer 7

Nobody wants to disgrace oneself. The U.S.A. is not the only country. I am fron India, and the whites are one of the main causes of my country being poor. The white think themselves more superior just because it was them who started the industrial revolution, and all other countries are backward and all that. The whites have already won over your country, thats why nobody tells them anything. A person is a disgrace only if he loses. We Indians know what white people did to our country. Hitler lost, thats why we are able to blame him, and critisize him. If he were victorious, nobody would have dared question him.Only winners write the rules and books. Thats why nobody right now says or acknowledges anything.

Answer 8

It is not ok, and we do recognize we were wrong to do that to the Native American's. Hitler did worse though, he exterminated 8 million people including 6 million jewish people. The rest were people who were just not like him. He also started the biggest war in the history of the world.

Answer 9

It's not just North America where this happened. Peoples have been migrating around the world since there were people. There are first nations people all over the world from the Ainu in Japan to the Sami in Finland. We all live on stolen ground in one way or another.

Answer 10

The Native American Genocide still haunts the United States and everybody does not believe it is ok.

Estimates of how many people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived have varied tremendously; in the 20th century scholarly estimates ranged from a low of 8.4 million to a high of 112.5 million persons. Given the fragmentary nature of the evidence, precise pre-Columbian population figures are impossible to obtain; estimates are often produced by extrapolation from comparatively small bits of data. In 1976, geographer William Denevan used these various estimates to derive a "consensus count" of about 54 million people, although some recent estimates are lower than that.[1]

The most controversial question relating to the population history of American indigenous peoples is whether or not the natives of the Americas were the victims of genocide. After the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust during World War II, genocide was defined (in part) as a crime "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such." Does genocide apply to the experience of the indigenous peoples of the New World?

Some scholars believe that it does. Historian David Stannard has argued that "The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world." Like Ward Churchill, Stannard believes that the natives of the Americas were deliberately and systematically exterminated over the course of several centuries, and that the process continues to the present day. Stannard estimates that almost 100 million American indigenous people have been killed what he calls the American Holocaust.[16]

Stannard's claim of 100 million deaths has been disputed because he does not cite any demographic data to support this number, and because he makes no distinction between death from violence and death from disease. Noble David Cook considers books such as Stannard's—a number of which were released around the year 1992 to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the Columbus voyage—to be an unproductive return to Black Legend-type explanations for depopulation. In response to Stannard's figure, political scientist R. J. Rummel has instead estimated that over the centuries of European colonization about 2 million to 15 million American indigenous people were the victims of what he calls democide. "Even if these figures are remotely true," writes Rummel, "then this still make this subjugation of the Americas one of the bloodier, centuries long, democides in world history."[17]

While no mainstream historian denies that death and suffering were unjustly inflicted by a number of Europeans upon a great many American natives, many argue that genocide, which is a crime of intent, was not the intent of European colonization. Historian Stafford Poole wrote: "There are other terms to describe what happened in the Western Hemisphere, but genocide is not one of them. It is a good propaganda term in an age where slogans and shouting have replaced reflection and learning, but to use it in this context is to cheapen both the word itself and the appalling experiences of the Jews and Armenians, to mention but two of the major victims of this century."[18]

Therefore, most mainstream scholars tend not to use the term "genocide" to describe the overall depopulation of American natives. However, a number of historians, rather than seeing the whole history of European colonization as one long act of genocide, do cite specific wars and campaigns which were arguably genocidal in intent and effect. Usually included among these are the Pequot War and campaigns waged against tribes in California starting in the 1850s.[19]

In many countries in is taught as a fact that the American government, wanting to move into the central regions deliberately "exterminated" the Native American Indians for their land.

I come down on the side of those who see colonization as a perpetual act of genocide...ongoing. The First Nations Genocide is something we have not faced nor taken responsibility for....

Answer 11

They don't think it was OK. It was an unfortunate part of our history. Your view is quite shallow and if you do your research, you can see that the United States have been making inroads over the years in compensating Indian tribes, not only financially, but in land reapportionment.