why do people care about the Jews Holocaust but not the 7 million American Indians killed,?

Question

a study was done, 8 million were here before whites came, at the turn of the century about 350.000 left.so thats about 7 million that died,the had no growth to their population,they should have increased in numbers, naturally.the whites killed them in so many many ways,

Answer 1

Of course we care about the plight of Native Americans. Considering I'm from the southeast, and half the people in my family are Indian, it matters to me a great deal.

Here are some reasons, though, why it doesn't get so much press.

1) As my friend pointed out above, Indians aren't out making movies, plays, books, and everything else about what happened. Jewish moviemakers like Steven Speilberg care more about their heritage than anyone else's.

2) Jews are still angry about it. 99% of Indians have forgiven and moved on.

3) Arabs and Nazis are still on TV screaming, "death to Israel" and denying that the Holocaust ever happened. So it becomes a touchstone for controversy.

I'm sure there are other reasons, but these are all I can think of. Incidentally, just a side note, the Democratic Party is to be thanked for the Trail of Tears -- they even violated a Supreme Court ruling to have the Indians deported.



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Answer 2

Those numbers are suspect. North America was very thinly populated for most of its history.

Except for a few thorougly disgusting incidents, deaths of American Indians were from disease, and that was nobody's fault. Some died in battle, but these were always small incidents--twenty or thirty soldiers on either side. We're not talking the Battle of Antietam, here.

The destruction of the American Indian, however it happened, was indeed a tragedy, and a great one. But it was probably unavoidable: on this side of the ocean was a rich continent guarded by almost nobody but hunter-gatherers or primitive farmers. On the other side of the ocean was Europe, impossibly overcrowded, choking on its own diseases, generations of its children starving, and ravaged by wars that made any improvements there impossible.

The Indians didn't have a chance. Fully one-half of Scandinavia and Ireland left in only a few years. Same with Germany and Scotland and the Low Countries. These were technologically-advanced people with metals, skills, and weapons, and who were starving and desperate.

There was just no way the Indians would have survived. Had the place filled up more slowly, like Canada did, then we might have been able to be as careful and deliberate about aboriginal affairs as they were, but that's not how it happened. And even their native peoples aren't doing all that well.

Answer 3

I've read how some of the replies say that what happened here was different then what Hitler did BUT it;s not. I wish I could quote the sources for you but its a proven fact that Hitler got many of his ideas on killing of the millions of people that he did from how the United States killed of Native Americans. There are even laws written in the US about killing Natives. It was the goal on the US Government to KILL ALL Native Americans but when they failed they turned to boarding school and started the whole "kill the savage save the man" thing. And it wasn't an accident that many natives died from illness, blankets contaminated with smallpox were given to tribes as a type of germ warfare. When that lost Spanish guy landed here there was some say 16 million people here. Some say more, some say less but I'm picking the middle number. 400 years later in 1900 there were less then 250,000, that would mean over 98% of the population was killed off. I don't know for sure and I don't mean to be little what Hitler did but I don't think 6 million was 98% of the Jewish population. Again I wish I had the sources to give you so you can see the information yourselves but its too late and I don't want to spend an hour finding them all.

Answer 4

The Jewish Holocaust was an event that has been painted in detail to the world repeatedly in every available media form.

The atrocities on the American Indian in early US history that you speak of (and it is actually only a drop in the bucket to the total destruction of the Native American in history), is less understood, promoted and top of mind to the peoples of the world.

People do care, those who have studied and understand, but there is not a contingency that have decided to promote it as there has been in the Jewish community.

Answer 5

All you speak of was trespassed against. Abraham had no land, he could obtain no land. The land pirates had it all and none were rich as Abraham 13:2 to purchase any land for their family. Abraham was 427 years after the flood and the Land pirates in Genesis chapter 14, tried to take all Lot had. Abraham was able to get it back. The sadness for the holocaust victims and the American indians is that they were like lot and have all taken.
Gen.8:21; The imaginations of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Answer 6

7 million, that's a pretty big number. Just where did you get it?

Let's first dispell the myth of the noble savage. The native American people lived in a very violent world where killing and torture were commonplace. Did they deserve the treatment they were shown by the European invaders, no, but make no mistake, all the murder was not done to "defend against" the white man. Sure, there are plenty of examples of overzealous men indiscriminately killing innocent "Indians" but that door swings both ways.
Do we kill somebody for walking through our yard? Of course not, but that sort of thing used to happen in "Indian country", hence the wars against them.

Additional comment:
According to the 2000 US Census there were 2,475,956 native Americans living in United States. (not counting Hawaii) http://censtats.census.gov/data/US/01000.pdf.
I ask again, where did you get your information?

Answer 7

Because the Holocaust happened and the other one didn't.












Just kidding. I'm part Native-American, so I can make a joke about it. The thing is, people do care and much has been written on the subject and there have been movies and television shows about it ("Into the West" was a recent one). I don't know where you get your misinformation.

Answer 8

I don't know but in one of my history books it says that the cherokee tribe had actually made a government and some were Christians and they wanted to be a state inside of Georgia but people refused and made them leave their families in what is called the trail of tears.

Did you Know if you can prove that you are an Indian you can get collage scholarships

Answer 9

7 million over 300 years. 6 million over 10. Also, the fact that it was more modern, and systamatic. But it's a good point.

Answer 10

Here's how I see it... people are either level one (97%) lvl2 (2%) or lvl 3(1%) the only people who care, are the level three's. The one percent of people in the world. All the level ones are the kind of people who sue McDonalds for making them fat. Americans will never take responsibility for their own actions. It is just the Crap People we are.