Why aren't Americans incensed about the Holocaust we caused the Native American Indians like the Jews are?

Question

about their Holocaust that was caused by Hitler?

100 times more Native American Indians were killed then the partly six million Jews that were killed in their Holocaust!

Answer 1

The sad truth is that Americans don't want to acknowledge the brutal foundation of this country. If they acknowledged it then they would have to acknowledge the continued oppression that is occurring today. They would also have to acknowledge that they don't have all power over this land.

We need more cultural education. We need to be outraged about the past so that those in the present can heal.

I am a Native woman. I know this is true.

Answer 2

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 3

Maybe its because no people sees themselves as villians. It isn't easy to get information about the Holocaust in Germany. Austria saw itself as a captive nation of Germany as opposed to being an accomplice. Therefore they are not responsible for the Holocaust. Its against the law in Turkey to even talk about the great massacre of Armenians during the First War War. Even an ancient country like Japan has the Ainu. I doubt that Japanese school children learn anything about attrocities in China like the "Rape of Nanking." Its always easier to be angry about atrocities that other countries commit. Until recently most people were not concerned about what happened to the Indians in our own country. Of course it was horrible. By the way where did Canada and all those other countries in N. America and S. America come from? But in recent years there have been books and movies that are from the American Indians point of view.

Answer 4

Because not all of the Native Americans killed were killed intentionally. Many died of disease, and some tried even wiped out eachother. No one remembers that the Iroquois all but destroyed the Illinois people, and the Huron people. You can't include all of the American people in on this, becuase many Americans have ancestors who came here well after most tribes were on reservations, and do to settlement and depletion of game, could only hope to starve to death if they wanted to retain to the old ways.

Where in the world did you get that 600 million figure? It seems horribly out of sync with reality. As someone said earlier, there were roughly 12 million people living in Pre-Columbian and contact America, North and South. Somehow they managed to produce 50 times the number in only 500 years while in a constant state of warfare and without refined agricultural techniques which a must for population booms of that magnitude to exist without have infants die in ridiculously high numbers.

American Indians, a better term than Native Americans since if they migrated here, and there is skeletal evidence that they weren't the first peoples in the Americas, weren't given freedom of religion before 1920 because they were not yet consider citizens of the US of A. After that it wasn't recognized because of existing legal precedents which allow legitamate restriction of some religious practices including human sacrifice, animal sacrifice and drug use. Until a relatively recent decision granted these people, who technically are dual citizens with the choice of living in their own semi-autonomous state (ie; reservations).

Hitler was a different matter all together. He began an agknowledged and deliberate attempt to kill off all Jews, Slavs and even Christian, and anyone else, who opposed him. Social Darwinism, along with Darwinian racism, was used to justify the treatment of the American Indians. They were seen as backward and inferior to Europeans, mainly wealthy Birtish descended wealthy ones.

Answer 5

I think the time difference is part of it-plus so many peoples have been cruelly killed and persecuted in a like manner. We should be disgusted with the Catholic Church for the inquisition and how they enslaved,killed and persecuted the South American and North American Natives- it was Horrible! Hitler set out to literally extinguish a entire people just to promote his ideals and hateful beliefs. We crushed the individual tribes by conquest and by taking away their freedoms and their heritage-kind of different but still horrible. I am astounded by our lack of true history in our schools in the USA and the lack of credit and respect we give our Native Americans in it-plus we should be teaching our children a Middle Eastern view- because the world is changing in a big way right now and they will grow up in a very mixed era I think. They need to understand and get a view of everything in order to stay ahead in education and keep this country what it should be. Education is a key- and yes-we were horrible, but so many other countries through history were too-and similar. I think Hitler stands out because of the time period and his personal vendettas---

Answer 6

Somewhere in your request is a question but it is so poorly prepared that it is hard to respond. I assume you are asking why the holocaust gets more attention than the treatment of American Indians. If that is the question you have a fair question.There is no doubt that the Indians were given short shrift, then and now. The difference may be the holocaust was systematic policy of killing carried out by the German government to wipe out certain groups. It should be remembered that not only Jews but Slavic, mentally disabled people, homosexuals and other groups were in the holocaust.But your point, if that is your point, is well taken. The U.S. has not met head on the history of treatment of Native Americans. It should begin ASAP

Answer 7

Here is a piece of history for you.
Hitler designed his treatment of the Jews and others on how the American government treated the American Indians. Yes, "American Indians", we weren't "Native Americans"yet.
This information is hard to find but it's out there.

Answer 8

The Indians were simply defeated, and your greatly mistaken about the numbers. Less than a million Indians occupied the entire continent.

The oldest known remains ever found in north and south America were that of Kennewick Man, found along the banks of the Columbia River. -They were the remains of a white man, not of the Indian.

Indians are simply Asians who followed the land bridge. Your a moron.

Answer 9

no person is extra appropriate than yet another. the only similiarity could be they confronted genocide. yet whilst u think of roughly it ninety% of natives have been killed, it somewhat is the main important genocide interior the international. additionally they're completely distinctive in each and every way. regrettably this land the u . s . is a land of blood shed and conquest definitely everyone right here suffered. so as that introduced approximately todays racism and human beings's resentment in direction of the u . s . and why some ethnic communities are poorer than others. we, i assume, are all accountable, so all of us would desire to alter our way of thinking. yet all this must be recognized and dealt with, not extra making victims or human beings picking to stay victims.

Answer 10

it is still going on today with the native ppl of nrthn pakistan,we will never know how many has been killed from 2002 ,but i do know over 20,000 pakistan troops have been killed or badly wounded fighting these native cultures