In regards to American Indian History.?

Question

The murdering of Indians, can it be considered genocide ? Considering todays population.

Answer 1

It was not genocide it was a war.In wars both sides die.It may not have been the "right" way but it was the way it happened.We cant change history.It was not a pretty part of our history but it is a part of it.No one looks back on slavery with pride just as the no one looks back at the treatment of Indians after the war.But they are facts in history and we cant change the past.

Answer 2

Its almost a genocide, but depends on how you define the word. While the huge majority of native Americans were killed, often this was due to the fact that their land was taken, and so they stopped reproducing. Many others died of desease. Large groups were murdered, but generally without any centralized government involvement. Throughout the course of human history one group or race of people will outcompete another, causing the latter group to slowly die off.
Before the "white man" killed off the native Americans, these natives had outcompeted and killed off the previous inhabitants, who came mostly from the northern island of modern day Japan. While both of these instances can be viewed as genocide, its not quite the same thing as a centralized governemnt effort to rapidly kill off an entire race of people, the way the Nazis, Turks and Khmer Rouge did in more recent times.

Answer 3

There was never an American Indian nation, so it could not have been invaded. Instead, there were hundreds of tribes perpetually commiting genocide on one another and stealing land. The Europeans just joined in on the free-for-all, but, unlike the Indians, they built something on the land they won instead of just starting a new war, which naturally had led to the tribes constantly losing the lands they had stolen from other tribes.

Answer 4

It was a little more complicated than that. Calling the relocation and fighting between the Indians and the Settlers murder is a little simplistic. I would say there were definitely components of genocide there, though.

Answer 5

Much of what happened to native Americans was reprehensible, but it was not genocide.

Answer 6

Genocide: "The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group."

Since they still exist, they have not been destroyed.

So, no.

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Answer 7

That's history...let's concentrate making our world a better place TODAY!