In the history of the united states wasnt the native americans treated worse than african americans?

Question

I know that african americans were in slavery but what about the natives that got there land taken away wouldnt that be just as bad

yeah but the native americans were butchered by us and yes this country we call the united states most if not all the land should be theres.yeah they get a few places they can live but thats it.Have you seen the places they made them stay I wouldnt want to have to live there.We took the heritage and there land.They were peacful people that we should have just left alone.After all if it wasnt for them most if not all of us would have not been here because our ancestors almost froze and starved to death.

Answer 1

I agree with you. America conveniently forgets, when they moan about immigrants, that they are all descended from immigrants except for Native Americans. Tehir history with regards to Native Americans & African Americans is absolutely despicable. In some states it is not much better today.

Answer 2

Well in a way yes they were. They were looked at as subhuman the same way African American slaves were. yet they were killed by so many different ways, wars, hunger and they were driven off of their land and forced to obey very strict government regulations. Even today many Native Americans suffer from poverty, and issues like alcohol addiction. While they have land to live on their job opportunities are far less than what African Americans have today. They were almost completely destroyed. Many did not care if they lived or died. Unlike slaves who if one died then the owner would have to go and spend around 1000 just to buy another one. So as a rule the slaves were at lest tried to be keep alive and able to work, unlike the Native Americans. So in some ways yes they were treated worse than the slaves of the early 1800's. As a rule the idea of big plantations did not really exist as we often think it did back in the South. Your average slave holder had 5 or less slaves and in some cases were treated much like a member of the family. I mean they would work along side their owners in the fields and many owners would not or could not beat their slaves due to the fact of that it would make them weak and unable to work. That meant one less pair of hands in the fields. So yes in some ways the Native Americans were treated worse than the slaves.

Answer 3

You really have to look at the treatment of the Native Americans differently than the African Americans. Look at it from the perspective of overall history, not the history of a race or a society.

The European Americans came here and essentially conquered the territory from the native Americans. The european powers (Spain, Britain and France) were constantly fighting for who got to control what areas of the so-called New World. Whatever side won a particular war, whatever tribe sided with he loser was for all intents and purposes eliminated.

The American Revolution started an acceleration of this elimination. The major Native American power that sided with the British was the majority of the Iroqois Confederation. Most tribes (primarily the Mohawks) sided with the British and perpetrated a lot of attrocities throughout frontier (around the Wilkes-Barrer and mid NY state areas). General Washington sent an army under General Sullivan to crush the Mohawks, which they did. The mohawk word for 'President of the United States' literally means 'burner of villages'.

This extermination continued well after the American Revolution with the various Indian Wars in the 'Old Northwest' [the great lakes region] and finally concluded in the late 1800s with the final battles at Wounded Knee.

From a strictly historic perspective, this is not very different from what so-called conquering powers did to civilizations that fought against them and were defeated. Is it right from a modern perspective? no of course not, but in the perspective of the time - that's what countries and powerful nations did. Look at the problems that the European powers initiated with the colonization of Africa, Southeast Asia and the mid-east. The problems that they created are STILL being fought over and resolved today.

Answer 4

The slaves didn't have any land and were tortured and killed.. They were taken from their country, trafficked across the sea, starved, beaten, their languages, religions and cultures denied them. The Indigenous Americans were slaughtered and tricked and moved from their lands. It doesn't do to have a competition which was treated worse. The Whites saw the Africans as having an economic use so they treated them like beasts of burden. They saw the Indigenous people as only having nuisance value so they treated them like vermin. The problem for the Whites was that neither group would accept the proposition, so they both rebelled and resisted in their various ways, and the whites were better armed, so they were able to do what they wanted which was wipe out those who rebelled of whatever kind.
You could say that at least the surviving Indigenous people have a remnant of their language, religion and culture, but this has kept them on the margins of society. The Africans have made a culture of their own in the intervening years. They too are marginalised, but at least they are still feared.
Meeting the White man was a disaster for both groups of people, but the survivors are still there. The war ain't over yet.

Answer 5

Neither group was treated very well. But I'm not sure you can make an assessment to which was treated worse. Natives were treated as enemies and were forced into reserves and shot and attacked by the army. Of course, on some occasions the Native tribes fought aggressively to protect their territory, which the White people had already decided to claim, so they were perceived as savage enemies.

The African Americans were treated as chattel and viewed as subhuman. As a result they had no rights and were enslaved and often maltreated. However, this maltreatment was not directly at the hands of the government, as is a bit harder to quantify.

I'd say both groups were treated equally poorly, just in different ways.

Answer 6

The treating of American Indians is still far worse today. But you just don't hear them daily screaming and yelling prejudice. This whole racial and equal rights crap is silly.. You have blacks screaming, women screaming, old people screaming, gays screaming, and just about every person in the US screaming about something.
This whole Rutgers girls basketball thing is silly.. People are making a huge issue out of something that was a slip of a tongue that did NO HARM to anyone.. If we hold everyone accountable for every word they say then we'd have no comedians, no politicians, no employers, no normal people only people walking around afraid to speak as they MIGHT offend someone..
I'm a white male, and I love all races and genders.. I am not one bit prejudice,but I might occasionally tell a black joke, a gay joke, or even a white joke.. Time to just grow up and stop trying to make everything into some kind of a prejudice.. We are ALL different in some form or another..
The only thing i don't agree with is the HATE statements.. There are people when anything happens 1st look to see if a white man, a black man, or a women is involved and immediately accuse it as being racial.. Sharpton, Jackson are both prime examples.. These people are making a living off of picking apart everyones words and trying to fabricate racial problems and making a pretty good living off of it..

Oh and in case you didn't notice.. slavery doesn't exist anymore and I don't even think one person who has expierenced slavery is even alive... If you are trying to make a case from a history book, you need to include everyones misfortunes from 100-200 years ago.
Today all that is happening is people are making cases out of words that THEY themselves have decided is inapropriate. Or search for places that a white was killed by a black or vise versa and make it into a race hate crime.. The race problems are being created by you people screaming and making an issue out of something that had nothing to do with the crime itself.

Answer 7

Well they both had it really bad but if you list the things you know then it could help you understand more .
Slaves --
~ They were seperated from their families .
~ They were beaten .
~ They werent paid for the work they did .
~ Alot of the women were sexually abused .
Theres more info but for times sake ill just list these ones .
Native Americans --
~ They kept getting their land taken away (( & they were here first ))
~ Their kids were taken & put in "white" schools to make them more like the white man . Where they had change their apperance their names the way they talked . They had to change their entire lifestyle & their background .
~ They were sometimes enslaved .
~ If they didnt do what they were told like with moving off of the land or giving up their kids they would be killed .

Hope this helps .
Chriisy

Answer 8

i think they were equally wrong.
How would you feel if i walked into your house made you leave and put you in a cardboard box to live and said you own it ? Was that suppose to make everything all right.
He**they were here first.
And for slavery what made us decide that "owning" a person was morally correct?
I feel we made a lot of bad decissions as a country in the past.
They did not like native americans because they said they were savages. And they did not like african americans because of skin color. Do you really think that this was grounds for what we did.

Answer 9

The greatest genocide in history (sorry, Jews) was the killing of the Native Americans by the Europeans. While it was a terrible thing to bring Africans here as slaves, the slaves were not systematically killed as the Indians were. Indians were moved from one place to another and eventually given the least desirable places on which to create reservations.
The English used biological warfare against Indians, infesting blankets with smallpox and giving the blankets to Indians who had no immunity against most European diseases.
Blacks have little to complain about compared to Indians

Answer 10

Due to political correctness it is almost immposible to give any honest answers to these types of questions.

I will say simply that Amerindians lives were cut short from warfare, etc. while Africans imported here's lives were significantly lengthend. The average slave lived far longer then the average free african.

Of couse now somehow some fool will say this is racist or pro slavery remark or something