American Indians.?

Question

I am almost finnished reading a book about how the Americans treated the native Indian tribes as told by the Indians (its called Bury my heart at wounded knee). I always knew it bad but didnt realize the extent of the brutality. The reservation system was basically a form of concentration camp. I found reading the book I couldnt help relating how the Americans treated the Indians to how the Jews and other groups were treated by the Germans. Different but the same.
I am sure modern day Americans feel terrible about what happend back then but do they realize the extent to which their country was built on such a horrendous actions? What are the history lessons like in American schools like on this subject?

Hi Mxu...The question I asked about was what was taught in school about the naitive American massacares..obviously you have not been to school judging by your answer as I couldn't even understand your mutterings but thanks anyway.

California..The Native American massacers happened in large numbers around the 1850-1885 and as America was "born" in 1776 I doubt unless there were 100 year old British soldiers hobbling around on zimmer frames the Brits at this stage were probably not involved...thanks for the comment but please use your brain before opening your gob....cheers

Answer 1

The preferred term IS American Indian. A native American is anyone born in the US.

Hitler got the idea for his "final solution" to the "Jewish" problem from reading about how America dealt with the Indians. It's called genocide.

This is not taught in schools; Americans, like many Germans, are in denial. They have no idea that an estimated 64 million Indians perished from 1492 to 1900 when the US census counted less than 250,000 Indians TOTAL, in the United States.

America masterminded the original Holocaust, but they missed a few of us.

Oh, and less than seven percent of Indian tribes have casinos - the stupid stereotypes just go on and on, don't they? Many American Indians are attempting to change the misinformation and disinformation that Americans and the rest of the world have about us.

My father and his father had to put up with open racism to keep a job and feed their families; I, however, do not. I point out racism and bigotry against my Indian people whenever and wherever I encounter it.

I do not speak for all American Indians, only for myself; but the majority of my brothers and sisters feel the same.

Answer 2

Very few people know or acknowledge the truth about what you say. Many justify it as "Manifest Destiny."

This shouldn't be a surprise, in the process of bringing democracy to Iraq we have killed 500,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. Many Americans think this is okay.

We are a militaristic nation that has been trying to conquer the world one continent at a time since our inception.

50% of our tax dollars go to our military budget.

There has NEVER been a time in the past 200 years in which we didn't have American troops deployed in some other nation's land somewhere in the world. For most of the 19th century, it was in native american lands. 100 years ago it was in South American lands.

We always find an excuse to go to war.

Answer 3

I'm part native american. You'd be surprised how rich a lot of the tribes are now. And yes, we learn about native americans in both gradeschool and college. We all realize how horrible the native americans were treated, though. You should go to the Red Earth Festival in Oklahoma during the autumn. Tribes from all over the country come to put on performance dances and all sorts of other stuff. It's amazing.

Answer 4

Where I am from most of us have at least some Native ancestry and I suppose that influences the feelings about the treatment of natives. Generally people here are pretty well informed about how the natives were treated. My great grandmother( Cherokee) for instance was "bought" during the Trail of Tears . It was sad indeed and a noble (for the most part) race was decimated. Native skills and wisdom are still appreciated where I am from.

Answer 5

Schools teach a foundation of subjects and do refer to the atrocities that Native Indians were exposed to during the coming of age in North America.

They have more reason to ***** then most populations in this country but they are a proud and introverted population unlike some cultures.

One answer makes reference only to American Africans but fails to mention that most groups faced hard times such as the Irish and Italian communities. Unfortunately, some people only promote their agendas, not education.

Answer 6

Believe me, Americans know all about it. Sad thing is, most just don't care or if they do they don't say so. There's still a lot of discrimination and anger today against Natives in America, don't ask me why. If anyone has the right to be pissed off it's them.

Answer 7

Yes, I realize the extent. We discussed it in history class, but not in great detail.

Do you realize the extent to which the term American Indian is an ignorant and racist term? Do you know why? If not, ask your teacher.

Go through your report and replace American Indian, with either Native American, or the name of the tribe to which the person belonged.

Answer 8

Yup, seems the practice of stealing land and treating fellow human beings like animals has become a nasty little habit with America.

Answer 9

in history class in highschool they don't really go into detail about what happened to the native americans. but they do talk about the Trail of Tears and how they gave blankets from smallpox victims to the native americans.

Answer 10

other races have it hard also. Black people were slaves whipped with a horse whip, burned alive, hung from trees, raped tortured, had their families sold away never to see them again, fed slop, forced to call a man master and then when slavery ended still hung from trees burned alive treated as second class citizens forced to sit in the back of the bus drink out of water fountains that said colored murderd for even looking at white women.