2006-11-28 09:24:35 · 25 answers · asked by seacow 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, but then neither did the settlers.
2006-11-28 09:26:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You are asking the question with a pre-determined answer in mind. Different time, different way of life. You can't judge the Indians or the settlers by today's standard of justice. Back then, it was much more survival of the fittest, and in the end, the European settlers were better equipped. And remember, many of the settlers were fleeing persecution in their homelands, so they were "victims" in a way also.They didn't have the modern perspective of knowing ahead of time who the native Americans were or their historical connection to the land. For all they knew, the Indians were just another civilization competing for the land rights to an untamed wild land. Revisionism places our modern knowledge of history in their heads, but they didn't have the benefit of hindsight. They were not evil or murderous. They were protecting their own, as were the Indians. History has many examples of one civilization taking land from another, but it seems the white man "stealing" the land from the Indians is always examined with today's standards, while all the other examples are just "ancient history"
2006-11-28 17:44:03 · answer #2 · answered by boonietech 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NO! Nor do we deserve the Savage History we are la bled with. Scalping comes right out of the BIBLE: the price David paid Soul for his first wife. Both the English and French took it to mean the hair from the top of the head, and used it as away for the Native People to prove they killed Whites of the other side during The French and Indian WAR. We also taught the English how to hunt, raise crops in this land our reward was for them to kill us off, force us to move west, and gave us sickness we never knew before: Smallpox: chicken pox, TB, and as an Allie they poisoned us and gave us contaminated blanks with SMALL POX'S good people these Christians were.:
2006-11-28 17:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by zipper 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No I do not think that the native americans deserved to be killed. But, here's a mock saying Kill or be Killed. Not that the indians had that real intention. who knows
2006-11-28 17:30:18 · answer #4 · answered by genius 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To think a human being like you deserves to be killed is like a guy saying his penis deserves to be cut for getting hard in public. We are all humans and we all need each other.
2006-11-28 17:30:23 · answer #5 · answered by scooby doo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NO. i'm native. my great-grandmother and her twin sister were orphaned in the battle of wounded knee. they were 8 yrs old. they were seperated and adopted out to non-native families, and never saw each other again...really sad for our family. many non-ndn families adopted native children, because they were then entitled to receive the land allocated to native families...roughly 168 acres on my rez. which is known as a "checker-board" reservation, because there are "white" ppl and ndn ppl living there...and not as harmoniously as you would think in this modern world. some (not all) of the white business owners still treat ndn ppl in a very shabby way.
gawd, on the trail of tears march so many native ppl died, and were seperated from their families, and never saw them again...familes, and those tribes never got back to their original homelands again.
geez, no ppl deserve to be slaughtered the way native ppl were, just to get rid of us in order to take the land the settlers wanted. i won't go any further in this...it's still a raw spot with most natives. and many non-native ppl are still very biased about it all.
and btw, i don't hate non-ndn ppl.
2006-11-28 17:46:29 · answer #6 · answered by pirate00girl 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
um, NO! but at the same time if the US hadn't developed from sea to sea it might not have had the resources to help in WW II and we might all be speaking German right now... it's impossible to know for sure, and I'd like to think there was a better way... but it happened so you have to move on and make the best of a bad situation... and btw.. ding 4k points on this answer! :)
2006-11-28 17:28:31 · answer #7 · answered by pip 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, they were, whether they deserved it or not. Same could be said about every population group that was warred against and pushed out of their land, which happened all over the world.
The Indians have no special claim, they have no immunity from being pushed out of the land they lived on. The fact of history is that if you cannot defend your land, others will take it. If your tribe falls behind others in terms of population, technology and progress, you will be crushed under the boots of the superior culture.
They lost. They need to get over it.
2006-11-28 17:41:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
What do you think if I kill you to keep your house and all your possessions? Would you like that?
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Joe, Frank, What does your answer has to do with this question? Who was speaking about English only or nationalities? Pal if you don't understand a question don't answer it, seems to me that the one who doesn't understand English very well is you.
2006-11-28 17:29:03 · answer #9 · answered by Javy 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No,but we should not torture ourselves w/ guilt.
That is the way things were done in those days.
The strong takes from the weak.
Also, how did Indians come to own everything?
They didn't just claim certain places, they wanted all of it. They didn't realize how many people were in this world, nor how advanced many of these people were.
2006-11-28 17:36:42 · answer #10 · answered by big j 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Check out world history bud.
2006-11-28 17:31:05 · answer #11 · answered by mamadixie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋