Do you think that the treatment of the American Indians by the US government was a genocide? why or why not?

Question

i am doing a history essay and all the sites i look at just tell me about the disease that killed off most of the indians... i can't find anything else..... help me.

Answer 1

Try about the middle of this page: http://www.thefurtrapper.com/indian_smallpox.htm

This page: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_066.html

And, this page: http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

Hope those are of some help to you.

You might also do some research on "Trail of Tears," read up on it, and make your own determination as to whether or not that was genocide.

Answer 2

Yes I feel that is was genocide. I am a Native American and my ancestors went through extreme suffering. Of course you won't find anything about what the government did to my people. How would it look to know that the so called founders of this place were killers. This country was founded on "PURE GREED" They seen my people as animals that needed to be tamed. They are the worst kind of people and all they wanted was our land. The railroads were more important to them then human life. I don't have to much time to let you know more but this might help you get started. Hey if you have HBO, try and find a movie called "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee". It will give you alot of perspective on what I am talking about. or you can even watch the trailer on hbo.com. Hope this help you!

Answer 3

It was disease that killed off most of the native peoples in the Americas. A consequence of contact between two populations long sepparated by great oceans - one of which had been urbanized a lot longer.

The Incas, for instance, had been ravaged by plague before the conquistadors took them on.

By the time the US government existed, the native populations were tiny compared to the rapidly-expanding european-americans. The long series of broken and unequal treaties and 'indian wars' certainly didn't help matters, but they never constituted systematic genocide.

Answer 4

I am sure that is was genocide. Not only IAmerican ndian warriors were killed but also children, elder and women. Beside this young Native American women were sterilized

Answer 5

Genocide. Read the book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". That is the best book on the topic I have seen so far.

Answer 6

It used to be genocide. It used to be justifiable to the seventeenth-nineteenth century European settlers and squaddies accountable, in view that they didn't bear in mind non-whites to be real human. But could be viewed unjustifiable at present.

Answer 7

Read about trail of tears , battle of wounded knee, ...Washington himself conducted and orchestrated the killing of thousands of Indians ... worst of all was the Spanish conquistadors who killed hundreds of thousands perhaps millions.

Answer 8

So many of the Native Americans were cannibals, murderers and warring tribes. They were killing each other off too but they US just did it faster.

I'm part Cherokee and I know that my ancestors considered an unborn child a delicacy.

Answer 9

they also systematically killed off the buffalo and tried to introduce locusts into Cuba

Answer 10

Of course it was genocide