How many Native Americans died in the United States ethnic cleansing?

Answer 1

endless; and we are still killing them slowly by social policy

Answer 2

Damned near all of us.

I hear 10 to 20 million, but I fear it was many, many more than that. We have no way of knowing. We didn't exactly figure into the US census until just the last few years, relatively speaking.

I have to love the answers here:

"That's been, like, 500 years ago. Get over it!"

It's been less that a hundred years ago, and in many subtle (and a few not-so-subtle) ways, it's still going on today.

"Yes, but that's quite a bit different than Hitler because blah-blah-blah."

Since you're the one who brought up Mr. Hitler, I say to you, no, there's absolutely no difference. If someone, say, the Muslims, were to come over here in hordes with some kind of new-fangled weapon you didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of defeating, and it was your family, your friends, and yourself who was being slaughtered by the millions, I doubt if you'd be able to grasp where this is much different than Hitler.

It was a genocide perpetrated under the cloak of following a religious conviction. Which is a real shame, because the religion itself is pure and that religion would never, ever stand for such a thing in any way, shape, or form. But it sure is always easy to get some pinheads to fall in line and learn the goose-step real fast. All you have to say is "God" and "godless" in the same sentence and you have it.

It wasn't just us, and it won't be just us the next time. All of this world's longest and bloodiest wars are over religion, and the lack of it on the hands of the "perpe-traitors."

Answer 3

before each little thing, examine your definition of "irony". Secondly, what you're relating is hypocrisy. to assert that the united states authorities is totally to blame for the interior sight American genocide might want to be an exaggeration, yet there have been human beings residing in what we now call the united states previously the rustic became formally recognized that were on to blame for killing Natives. besides to, no matter if most of the Indians were killed off previously 1776, the united states authorities became on to blame for the direction of Tears in 1838, it quite is at present widely seen an act of genocide. American Indians were also killed through the thousands in the course of the Gold Rush of 1848, with the California authorities paying funds for Indian heads and scalps. at the same time as that is hypocritical that Europeans of Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French descent criticize the united states without acknowledging the jobs their own governments performed in the deaths of interior sight individuals, that is even more desirable hypocritical for an American citizen to intend that Europeans are more desirable (or both) liable for the genocide of interior sight individuals than the united states. it is also really ignorant. Your declare that Europeans were both to blame for interior sight American genocide is arguable. For one, Spain, England, Portugal, and France does no longer equivalent all of Europe. per chance the complaint stems from the very undeniable actuality that even after the united states became shaped and Europeans were out of the photo, genocide persisted. the basically irony right it really is that your "question" will in all probability piss off any knowledgeable individual more desirable than it receives them to consider you.

Answer 4

Estimates range from one million to over ten million.

In just one incident during one year, the Trail of Tears (1838), between 5,000 and 10,000 Cherokee died, counting those who died of disease within a year after the forced march. This was between 40% and 75% of the entire tribal population.

And that's just one of hundreds of examples, before and since.

{EDIT to April_N} Please read some history books before you make statements that are irrational like that. Do the math.

500 years ago was just after 1500, about a decade after Columbus got here (1492), and about the time the first Spanish explorers where just discovering the west coast. And centuries before the American government started wiping out the western tribes.

{EDIT to SVern} The death toll in most wars between native tribes, before the Europeans came to the continent, was between zero and 1% of the fighting force. Non-combatants were never attacked, and enemy combatants were far more often captured than killed, to be exchanged later. Do the research yourself.

Answer 5

You should also look up how many treaties were broken...and they have the gall to lecture the rest of the world about freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

IGNORE rlrose63's IGNORANT ANSWER BELOW- for example, one of the ways the early Americans 'ethnically cleansed' was to slaughter the buffalo herds if they wanted the land - causing massive starvation

Answer 6

That wasn't "ethnic cleansing"... you're trying to enflame tempers by comparing what the europeans did coming here with what Hitler did and it's just not an accurate comparison.

Hitler was deliberately trying to eliminate a specific group of people. When europeans came here, they were founding a country and they fought with and killed the native people as they did so. That's how countries were made then. It happened all over the world at various times as well.

Do some of your OWN research before posting here with the intent of making people angry.

(EDIT: Okay, maybe I'm wrong... after doing some of my OWN research -- duh -- I've found that the term 'ethnic cleansing' does indeed cover the moving of a group based on ethnicity and/or religion to a specific geographic area, which WOULD cover creating tribal lands for Native Americans. But wikipedia going so far as to refer to the building policies after Katrina and the US Immigration Debate as 'ethnic cleansing' is, I think, a misuse of the term. How far do we go in using that term? It's my belief we should reserve it for the more eggregious instances of ethnic betrayal.)

Answer 7

You people are so stupid!! That was over 500 years ago, and that is how things were done then!! If you found land that you wanted and you thought you could, YOU TOOK IT!!!
Ethnic Cleansing? You've got to be joking!

Answer 8

Better question:

How many Native Americans massacred each other before whitey showed up? Get a real history lesson.

If you still feel real bad about it, go gambling.

Answer 9

I"ve read 12-16 million. Makes Hitler look like childs play. And we wonder why the rest of the world mocks us?

Answer 10

Many,their blood was used to laid the strong foundation of AMERICA.

Answer 11

Too many.