Why do people ignore the Native American Holocaust?

Question

Eight million were here when the white men first came here. there was about 250.000 at the turn of the century, why isnt there any memorials in Washington D.C.

Answer 1

I think Americans (and Canadians because we're guilty of it too) try to play down the Genocide of the Native Americans because deep down we know we are responsible for and are afraid to apologize for our ancestors terrible mistakes. I for one am remorseful and do apoligize for these past crimes. In newfoundland european settlers eradicated the Beothuk peoples through spead of diease and through armed conflict. The last Beothuk woman Shannandithit died in St. John's the last of her people. very sad.

Answer 2

Why do people ignore the Babylonian, Judean, Assyrian, Egyptian, Hittite, Canaanite, Edomite, Sodomite, Turkish, Armenian, Arab, Berber, Kurdish, Afghan, Indian, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Korean, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Hun, Mongolian, Prussian, German, French, Austrian, Magyar, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek, Roman, Italian, Celtic, Dutch, Belgian, African, Sudanese, Rwandan, Anglo-Saxon, Jute, Danish, Norman, Swedish, Gothic, Spanish, Portuguese, Chilean, Bolivian, Cuban, Brazilian, Argentinian, Venezuelan, Guatamalan, Nicaraguan, San Salvadorian, Mexican, Peruvian, Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Acadian massacres? Once you explain why no one cares about all the Celt-Iberians, Celts, Scots, Picts, Britons, enslaved by the Romans you can explain why noboby cares about the Native Americans.

Answer 3

It's because most people don't want to feel guilty for displacing the Indians. I agree, there should be a monument in D.C. I know theyr'e carving a monument in the Black Hills of Crazy Horse. It will be a full body sculpture unto granite, about 100 yards tall!.

Answer 4

I am also reading Lies my Teacher Told Me...and basically its because American Schoolchildren are brought up to not care. Most American History textbooks are written from a racist white european point of view. As far as europeans were concerned they had "discovered" America in the 1400's and thats when American history begins...I would recommend reading the book, its pretty eye-opening

Answer 5

nicely they do have the national Museum of the american Indian in DC. usa Holocaust Memorial Museum is the only memorial to the WWII Holocaust that i understand of in DC. i assume the american Indian museum would desire to be considered a memorial too yet i could think of they might desire to do something a sprint extra glaring approximately spotting the certainty that they have been all killed. (yet i assume that could make the U. S. look 'undesirable')

Answer 6

There's no memorial because it would remind people of how terrible our government treated the Native Americans. You should read 1984. It's about trying to rewrite history. By the way that type of treatment is still going on today... look into what North Korea is doing to its people

Answer 7

Mainly because it is not seen as such (although it was) and falls under the banner of "Manifest Destiny".

Plus, movies drummed into our heads that the "red man" was a savage barbarian and that image is very tough to overcome.

Considering what the US Army did from 1870 to 1890, that is the shameful aspect

Answer 8

Very good question, Everybody has forgotten what the white invaders done to the Native Americans.

Answer 9

because if we do remember that, we would admit that we stole the land and killed all the natives in the land in order to secure power over everything.also,the mistreatment of the native American is still on-going and it seems that it wont end there,and other groups are next,one by one all will be targeted.and that's what the government wants.

Answer 10

because we don't learn about it in school.

I'm reading a book called Lies My Teacher Taught Me. the book talks about how school textbooks are censored if they say anything unflattering about the US. sadly, i believe this is the treatment Native American history & other minority histories receive in US schools.

the book also talks at length about the so-called "Indian wars" & about native culture. I've learned more about native Americans from reading this book, than from 12 years of public education & 4 years of college.

the massacre of black americans during Reconstruction is similarly ignored by school curriculums.