why did the Americans kill the red Indians?

Question

its a big place did thay need to be killed

Answer 1

The president probably thought they were hiding weapons of mass destruction, so the English got dragged into as well !!!

Answer 2

Sorry, but Americans did kill the Red Indians. Even if it was Europeans that started it. Persecution of the Red Indian's continued right up into the 20th century and the killing carried on until the late 19th century. For example, the Battle of Little Big Horn was in 1876. Which was clearly part of a war against Red Indians.
The reason they were killed - gold and land. Or, in other words, greed.

Answer 3

I think a great deal of the problem was the clash of cultures: the Europeans who came to settle America had an idea that people could "own" land, and then no one else but them could use it. Many of the North American tribes felt that the land belonged to no one, but was entrusted to everyone. My ancestry is from both sides of the question: Most of them walked the Trail of Tears, but some came on wagons, looking for a new life in an empty land. The reality was something that neither of them could deal with, and I think the hatred, disrespect, and killing came more from the lack of understanding each other. They did not agree on land ownership, on what constituted a person, on what was sacred and what was not. We, as humans, have a problem with things we don't understand, and so some of my ancestors blasted away with rifles, and some of my ancestors died.

The real difficulty is why are Native Americans still treated as an underclass? Again, there is more than meets the eye.

Answer 4

A great many Red Indians died of diseases introduced by the white man for which they had no natural defences. In addition there was a lot of killing and moving tribes from their lands to less good lands where they suffered indignity and poverty. The greatest victory over the US Army ever, was the complete destruction of the 7th US Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. I suspect this major defeat by the worlds finest cavalry, the Sioux, is not taught in American Schools. A survivor of that battle, Chief Red Fox, came on TV here in UK back in the 1960s and spoke of the battle. He had been a young brave, then aged 12 but was a very old man when we saw him here. The main reason for the mass slaughter of the Red Indians by American Settlers, was greed for land. The real reason for the socalled Revolution or War of Independence, is that the British Government refused point blank to move one inch westward without first gaining the concent of the Indian Nations. Our late soverign, His Majesty King George III forbad it.

Answer 5

To everybody who said there was no americans back then. They had already claimed indepence from england ( 30 years) and they continue to kill Indians for over 20 years after the civil war. They wre definatly Americans and your reletives as mine ... Come on guys i live in New Zealand and know this. We also did the same to Maori.. But they fought back , really well and we signed a truce which was since (as you could guess) broken by us

Answer 6

It was the British what done it, we were not Americans yet, it was several years later when we kicked you out. We killed them in legitimate wars because they broke several treaties rather like in Iraq, we invaded because Saddam broke UN resolutions. The Red Indians were savages who would have killed each other out if we had not done it and did not have a sense of honour to keep their side of treaties and live together with the settlers so it was either them or us. Which is the situation we face in Iraq.

Answer 7

The indians killed "Americans" too... that is what a war is about. At some point, you all need to get over it.

Answer 8

why did the Americans kill the red Indians?
why did the Americans kill the vitamins ?
why did Americans kill ppl in Afghanistan ?
why did the Americans kill the Iraqis ?
CZ THEY LIKE TO SEE PPL SUFFER AND LIKE TO TEST WEAPONS ON THEM
YOU CAN SAY FOR FUN

Answer 9

WE HAD A PROBLEM WITH SHARING! We didn't just move , or migrate west we plundered as we went along. We didn't just hunt the Buffalo. we harvested the animals like there was no tomorrow. We didn't try to communicate with the red man, we blew them out of our way. We didn't settle the West we trampeled our way across this country and everything in our path. We couldn't understand the red man , so we turned them under like rich soil. When we reached the West coast, we pissed in the Pacific, and plundered our way up and down the coast.

Answer 10

I don't know, because all of the blue ones were already dead!?

They are called American Indians or the semantically incorrect term, Native Americans, not red Indians.

Answer 11

It all started with Wild Bill Bush who maintained the native americans were building Wigwams of Many Deerskins which could be used against their enemies. In fact it was a ruse to steel the special black liquid which these peoples used to soften their clothes.