Why does the Massacre against Native American Tribes not considered a genocide on the history books?

Question

Natives American were Virtually killed in millions over a 100 year span, but the killings are not cnsidered a genocide but actually celebrated by holidays such as Thanksgiving and Colombus Day, What Hitler did to the Jews was a Holocaust of mass porportion in a short time frame, and what christians did to Africans and Native American was holocasust of mass porportion over a long period of time.

Answer 1

Becasue the united states government doesn't want other countries to look down on us and think badly of us. Plus, remember, we are American, and LOVE blaming our self-invoked problems on other people. White man came to promote peace and all they did was drag our ancestors to death because we didn't have the gold they came here for. Plus, religion played a major role in that there was only one god for the christians, and many gods for the Native American Shamans. If there was more than one god, they were wrong. That's why great numbers died right there: gold and god. I'm native american too.

Answer 2

In the Americas what you had was the clash of very different cultures. Multiple European cultures and multiple American Indian cultures. Such an event doesn’t result in a slow merging but rather long term abrasive interaction which results in one culture consuming another. Obviously it isn’t that straight foreword. Cultures adapt, use elements of other cultures, enhances those elements of their own culture that work, and yes, people die. For example, in 1066 when England was invaded, two different forms of culture came together and seemingly feudalism from the continent totally eradicated that of the English Celtic/Saxons. However, by 1215 the culture of the Celtic/Saxons reasserted itself (somewhat altered) within Magna Carta. That is, the winning culture adapted some of the losing culture. So to with the Americas. While there were singular events which today we find unacceptable, there was not a long term policy to eliminate the Indian culture and people. In this context there was no holocaust in the context of what Hitler did.

In Africa similar cultural clashes occurred. While European nations played a role, much that occurred was due to Islamic nations enslaving tribal peoples, similar what is still occurring today in the Sudan and now in Chad.

The point is that to attempt to settle blame on a single group, nation, culture for what has (and is) occurred is rarely correct or a realistic understanding of events..

By the way, while many people died during the years 1500 through 1900, it was miliions of Indians. It was even close to a million.

Answer 3

History is written by the victors. The Civil war delayed any decisions on Indians and when the war was over there was a flood of unemployed men -- many immigrants that joined the army -- that moved west with superior firearms.

It wasn't until 1879 that the Federal courts ruled Indians were Americans -- a person, protected by the U.S. Constitution ( Crook vs. Standing Bear ).

Had the Indian nations been able to unite into a single voice and form up legal representation they could have, perhaps, argued more sucessfully about civil rights, legal rights, criminal prosecution and property rights.

The Americans forced their laws upon the natives. It is my opinion that the Europeans, with a codified system of law, produced better results in the end than any other imported culture would have allowed.

History is full of holocausts larger than the examples given by your question. India (the Asian country) is today a population of people totally replaced by Moslem armies. India has no native-Indians from antiquity.

Answer 4

That a good question. The reason why history books and other historical references do not portray the devastating massacres of the Indians and African Americans is due to the long standing belief that they are a lower race of people. While psychologist including Darwin said that some species are more fit to survive and will dominate based on their inherent features. The truth is we are of the same human species. English Europeans spread this propaganda across the Earth, and now most people believe whites are better. This is the explanation of the ill-treatment of our race and the white washing of our history.

Answer 5

I believe in regards to history, the story is whoever could beat the crap out of someone else, did. I don't think the right name for what happened to Native Americans would be a Massacre, but there is no doubt, Europeans that came here thought they were superior.

Answer 6

I'm Native American, and I really don't have an answer, except that Native Americans and Africans were not considered human. Indians were in the way of expansion and fought back. Therefore, by the judgment of people at that time, they should be destroyed, and they were.

Answer 7

Simply put..the people that make those decision don't WANT it that way. They figure if it is not admitted to...it isn't real. IF it was acknowledged, then it would give the Natige American Tribes the leverage they would need to secceed if they wanted as culd use that to shoe that the land that was taken from them was taken criminally. As for the africans the treatment they recieved was horrific during slavery, and much of it has been acknowledged. But you have to remember that as far as US history is concerned....Genoside is what other people do...sad but that's the way they see it...thats the way they want it...and there isn't thing one that we can be done about it.

Answer 8

Because genocide was not a word during the 1800's. It only came into being in the 1900's. And vecause the massacre's was not the willed action of a government but merely willful actions of various groups within the US sometimes aided and abetted by other tribes aganist tribes

Answer 9

What history book are you referring to? I doubt there was even a million Indians in America back then. The holocaust against Africans? Now that's a new one. Do you want us to pay you a settlement? This Thanksgiving I'll celebrate the death of a million Indians, NOT!

Answer 10

it is seen as genocide in the history classes I took, the sand creek massacre and other crimes were studied in depth.