how were indians discriminated?

Answer 1

Well for one thing, 500 years later and we are still calling them "Indians" is a form of discrimination...

Basically, when a society does not understand a different culture the society first fears them, then undermines their culture or worse tries to make them adapt to the "new and better" culture that they bring. If they are met with resistance they are eliminated either by death, by rape or by subjugating them into forced labor (slavery). This has happened in many countries to many different societies, but in the U,S. this was most definitely done to Native Americans.

Native Americans were first used to help the white settlers navigate their "new" found country, then used them to help find food and build shelter, then they were used to fight against other white settlers. When white settlers wanted more land, they pushed the Natives farther and farther west until there was really nowhere else for them to go. After killing them in countless battles and infecting them with European diseases, they decided to give them land, (usually not very good land) and keep them there. They also introduced them to alcohol, unequal, second class education and living conditions.

A hundred years later ask yourself this, "How many Native Americans have I met?"

Not too many I bet, since most have been tucked away in reservations or basically vanished.

Modern Genocide? Perhaps.

Mayra

Answer 2

In the first times of the colony they were not discriminated but rather eliminated. The British brought linens infected with smallpox (a mortal disease now eradicated from earth) and gave them to indians. Whites men had a reward for each indian killed. They brought the scalps of the indians to get their reward. The indians just imitated them.

Answer 3

The white man did not understand the way they lived, so they called them savages. They lived off the land and they fought rather brutally. Basically because they were different. Even the Indians who lived peacefully were ridiculed. The whole thing was rather sad. All the indians wanted was to be left alone and live peacefully.

Answer 4

Native Americans were discriminated because they were not considered human beings. They were considered heathens, uncivilized, crude, and numerous other things. The settlers did not understand their ways and practicies, therfore did not allow them to be themselves, nor be in their society.

Answer 5

Well you should go to my social studies teacher and um..........She just might tell you(just kidding) they were discriminated by their dark color and because of their way of life. any other than that I dont know.

Thanx!

Answer 6

first of all they are called native americans. and they were discriminated by not going to the public restrooms.

Answer 7

um.. they were just slaughtered by the thousands and then forced into reservations...

Answer 8

I don't know, I don't live in India.

Answer 9

I failed social studies

Answer 10

what do you mean by, were ?