It has to have been huge. We have been pushed into small federal "reservations". Land that is only a miniscule fraction of what was originally ours. Much of it was hunting land, but so many people relied on it. Is there even a death record of that atrocity?
2007-03-13 13:34:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Less than the Nazis would have. Not counting the casinos.
2007-03-13 13:36:31 · answer #1 · answered by Stop_the_Klan@yahoo.com 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
55 million estimated from the onlsaught were murdered, slaughtered, I see all the rednecks came out with casino comments. That demonstrates the continue attidudes of the dominate society. Pine Ridge and ROsebud reservations in SOuth Dakota are the nations two most impoverished counties! Life span there is not yet 60 yrs on the average, unemployement is at 80%!
Columbus statred with the extention of the Carabs after whom the sea was named. Then the Spanish moved on, we were the first people to suffer germ and bilogical warfare, as they infected balnkets with small pox then gave them to thin us out. We were also the only nation ever to recieve a surrender from the US (1868 Red Cloud War) we gave you tomatoes, potatoes, coffee, corn and many other gifts, you brought only death and devistation
2007-03-13 21:28:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Imagine my horror when doingour genealogy to find that "Bloody Sleeves" Crawford was a relative. He was my Great Great Grandmother's brother. It literally made me sick. My uncle was married to a full blooded Pottawatomie. Now, that's a strange world, isn't it? My aunt and uncle were both alive when I found this and I sure didn't share it with them nor will my cousin ever see it. My own kids know and that's all. I am not responsible for what he did but I hate to think I have that blood in my veins. Actually, that aunt was the sweetest person and always my favorite. I never heard anyone in the family ever say a thing that made me think that everyone didn't love her. I hope you have kept a pure bloodline and have lots of pretty babies to carry on your wonderful heritage. I have been a student of Kansas history all my life and especially doing the genealogy back into Iowa and east I've read numbers and they are staggering. I know this is not my fault and nothing can change it but I would like to tell you from the bottom of my heart how sorry I am. I hope you believe like I do that your people are in a better place and mine are burning in hell. God Bless
2007-03-13 20:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by moonrose777 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Paul's answer is correct, whole tribes were wiped out, genocide was the white man's answer to taking the land that was not his to start with. Can't discover something that belonged to someone else, but I guess you can if you eliminate the people who are already there. the truth is still the truth.
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830
the Trail of Tears
Dawes Acts
THE CASTE DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1850.
2007-03-14 02:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by joymlcat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to tell for sure (both how many died and how many there were to begin with) but estimates put the number somewhere around 10 million brought down to 1 million.
However, most of those deaths were due to European diseases which were unfamiliar to Native people. The Europeans didn't spread them on purpose (in most cases). Definitly no less than 1 million natives were actually killed outright by settlers.
2007-03-13 20:38:08 · answer #5 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have posted similar questions in the past... Americans don't like to be reminded of their pillage against the indigenous peoples of this land.... when you say genocide.. the first names that should come to mind, are Hitler, Stalin.. but how about Custer ? History is rewritten to suit the victor.. we can never be sorry enough.
check out junior here above me... thats perfect,.. nothings changed
2007-03-13 20:44:58 · answer #6 · answered by sitizen_x 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but I have a blanket over here for you...let me cough on it first...lol...it was destiny dude...a more advanced civilization came along and displaced the previous one...has happened throughout history. Look at europe...there were a number of civilizations that came and went until the current one took hold a couple thousand years ago.
2007-03-13 20:43:07 · answer #7 · answered by Steelhead 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
im partialy cheerokee and ive studied this. america had the purpose of helping the natives, it was just the cruel soldiers that helped kill them becuase they were supposidly "interfering" with their life. but it was still no genocide, the diffinition of genocide is a purposly done extenction of a race or group of people, like adolf hitler and the jews, not president jackson and the natives.
2007-03-13 20:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by ShowStoppa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not as high as the genocide of natives against other indigenous peoples who were in America before them and other so called native tribes.
2007-03-13 20:36:43 · answer #9 · answered by ccguy 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
why doesn't anyone talk about the innocent people natives attacked with axes? it seems odd that europeans being here is justification for murdering men, women, and children, then scalping their corpse to harvest in their sick collection. i mean, mexicans are here illegally, so can i scalp little mexican children and then claim i'm a victim of the brown man taking my land?
2007-03-13 20:38:38 · answer #10 · answered by Matt 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some of them apparently escaped, as they scalped me for $250 at the blackjack table last night.
2007-03-13 21:00:42 · answer #11 · answered by Rick N 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋