2007-03-19 11:39:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I am Native American and believe me we don't want you to feel sorry for any of us. Most of all indian tribes still have deep hatred but they're doing fine without anyones pity. They have land, they get so much money they are almost borderline gluttony.
2007-03-19 11:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Sure, but I don't think we should feel guilty, as we're not the ones who persecuted them and pushed them off their land. And by sorry, I don't mean pitying them and patting them on their heads. Sorry is feeling sorrow, and I think people need to feel sorrow for anyone who's life isn't going very well. Not all Native Americans have bad lives or anything like that, but for the ones living on reservations who're in drunken slumps, life kinda sucks.
My mother's side of the family is Native American. I've noticed that they tend to be pretty depressed, usually because they can't find work, etc. I think they just need to branch out. Obviously, you're not going to get as much work in Montana as you would in New York. I think people in New York also tend to be less racist against Native Americans. If you're Native American and are having problems with life, try moving. It helped my mom, it can help others.
2007-03-19 11:45:34 · answer #2 · answered by Bishop 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well considering we purposefully destroyed their nations, robbed their land for our own benefit, and then continued to treat them like sub-humans, I think we should. Is there much we can do now? Maybe, things like social support systems and education benefits. They don't really have many options, they either have to assimilate, which isn't so bad, or retain their own cultures, but be confined to the tribal land we forced them to. It is White America's responsibility to not forget the past, and work to set things as right as we can with the native Americans.
2007-03-19 11:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yeah i think america should have sorrow for them. the white people took their land and forced them onto reservations and into poverty. for years they didn't have as many rights as the white people. that would suck if that happened to me, wouldn't it for you? but i think we should have more sorrow for the native americans way back in the 1700s and 1800s and early 1900s rather than today, because now we're all equal.
2007-03-19 12:13:49 · answer #4 · answered by LaMorenaForbiden™ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. We should feel they have a right to be separate and apart from the USA and do on thier land as they please like any other Nation.
Why are people so mad about the casinos but no one pickets Atlantic City, Reno, or Vegas????
2007-03-19 11:45:27 · answer #5 · answered by HollyBean 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Most people don't like to be pitied... Support and friendship will go a lot farther and do more good then pity.
2007-03-19 19:22:44 · answer #6 · answered by Indigo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, we should feel sorry for the ones who destroyed them.
2007-03-19 11:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think we should feel sorry for them. But I think we should respect them. Show courtesy to them. Understand where they are coming from.
2007-03-19 11:46:26 · answer #8 · answered by airgemm 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋