What happened to the native americans when colombus moved in?

Question

Native indians were murdered i've heard is it true

Answer 1

yes but it's more complex than that. There were and are native American tribes from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego. How they responded to Europeans depended partly on when and how they first made contact, what they had that the settlers wanted, and their own style of civilisation. Right up the Pacific coast of South America, for example, there were tribes who fought off the Europeans for many generations.

The biggest killers of native Americans were European diseases such as the common cold to which the natives had no genetic or imparted resistance. For those that didn't go this way, there were a long series of land grabs, wars, alliances and counter alliances which, you could argue, are still going on. Plus there are still tribes (Amazon basin) which have still had no contact with Europeans and their offspring.

Answer 2

COLUMBUS WAS INNOCENT OK

He never even reached the mainland.

But a lot of other people did.

Amerindians died of disease, because the foreigners brought diseases they had never known. They were enslaved and worked to death. They were just plain murdered and their lands stolen. They were chased off their lands and starved to death. All these things happened AND ARE STILL HAPPENING NOW.

Beyond this, their civilisations were destroyed, their social and religious organisations wiped out, their language and culture denied.

This left many lost and demoralised, and what the white man left often succumbed to alcohol and hopelessness.

This is not just one set of people, this is many nations of people, in North and South America, speaking many different languages, following very different lifestyles.

Today, there are still Indigenos(Amerindians) forced into slavery, dying because their water is polluted by gold miners, driven off their land because it is cleared to grow soya beans or raise cattle.

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are still widely persecuted and suffer from all kinds of abuse and lack of respect.

There are some small signs that there may be an improvement coming, with more consciousness, better educated leaders. I think for the first time one of the countries of South America, Bolivia, has a President who is Amerindian.

Answer 3

Over time and establishment of the United States many Native people WERE murdered, blamed for wars/fights that were started by whites and lost many of their people, as well as sickened and died from new diseases brought that they had no immunity to, had their children taken away and put in far away schools where many were abused, forced to be like whites, and some never saw home and their families again. People were forced onto small areas of their lands where they suddenly lacked the necessary resources to survive that they had when they (some) lived nomadic lifestyles, others were removed from their lands and forced to go where resources were scarce, and others yet were forced to leave and go far away from their original homes onto lands far different they what they originally knew and had no knowledge of how to survive there.

Some of the tribes and cultures and languages are gone today, some are in danger of being lost, others are managing to hang on ok or doing well. Hopefully their children will carry it on well, but mainstream media can make it hard for kids to get into cultural stuff when they now want to just be like the other kids in America.

They had such rich cultures that thrived well before it was interrupted and ruined forever, and now many of the reservation lands they are on are very poor. Imagine your grandparents having only a small shack to live in with no insulation or heat in the winter and little food...no one would want that for their family and many like that have little way out.

Answer 4

Yes it's true. Read the Trail of Tears. That was the worst that the white man did to Native Americans. But obviously, it didn't totally work...there are still lots & lots of Native Americans around. Where do you think Hitler got the idea of the haulocaust? From watching the white man destroy Native Americans.

Answer 5

Like everybody else, they were used to build an empire by people who didn't want to work for a living. The illusion of protection was as big a business back then as it is today and selling it sure as hell beats working for a living. No discrimination either as the Indians who helped the government we treated the same as those who fought the government. They all ended up in concentration camps if they were not killed in battle.













They were

Answer 6

Not by Columbus. The Indians befriended him, as well as the first Pilgrim settlers.

Treaties were signed for land, but the settlers wanted more and more. Treaties were violated by the settlers and war ensued until the Indians were defeated throughout the the country. There were atrocities by both.
The history is a sad one.

Answer 7

I won't repeat the above, I just want to say that european Christians who felt persecuted in Europe ,travelled to North America to set up a nation governed solely by their particular faith .
Believing they had God given rights to this they pushed further ,and took more ,reneging on treaties as they went . Since the previous occupiers weren't to happy about this they were brutally oppressed ,their open resistance and guerrilla warfare were condemned by the new nation's leaders and military ,and the indigenous people's were cast as immoral and undeserving of mercy or respect.
Now why does that sound familiar ?

Answer 8

Columbus landed in the Carribean, claimed the land the Spain and eventually set himself up as governor.
The original tribe he spoke to rapidly ceased to exist, suffering a high rate of suicide due to culture shock.
Other tribes in the area were enslaved by spanish plantation owners and worked to death, The Spaniards then began importing slaves from Africa.
The Conquistadors smashed the Inca empire and got as far as Texas and California enslaving a they went. They also forced conversion to Catholicism whcih led to South America's version of Christianity.

Answer 9

In Spanish schools, children are taught that millions of natives died from diseases against which they had no resistance.

Some historians consider this version of events revisionist and subscribe to a more commonly-held view that the natives were massacred by colonising conquistadores repulsed by cult practices.

Answer 10

They were mocked, cheated, lied to, stolen from, forcibly "converted" to Christianity, exiled, exposed to horrible diseases for which they had no immunity, pillaged, raped and murdered over the next 4 centuries until their civilizations were pretty much wiped out and they were confined to reservations. No offense, but my God, did you sleep through US History?! Try opening a book!