Why are american indians missing in the USA?

Question

Is it part of the loal culture and community, not to have american indians in the USA

Answer 1

Yes, dude.

Answer 2

I don't think Native Americans are "missing" in the USA. I think it's more a case that they are living somewhat under the radar screen, either because they're segregated on reservations, or because they're not! In addition there are many people with Native American blood who don't "look like Indians," so the non-Native person might not realize the person they are talking to is an Indian. There are many Native Americans living in the northern U.S.A., near Canada, and operating casinos, etc. Also I believe California has a large Native population.

Answer 3

The few who survived the 19th and 20th century progroms were relegated to concentration camps, euphemistically called reservations. Eventually, some of them abandoned their traditional culture and used their ambiguous sovereignty to run casinos and enrich themselves.
The American Indian population is plagued by sub-standard living conditions, high suicide rates and rampant alcoholism. After years of exploitation, broken treaties, persecution and ridiculing of their beliefs the American Indian is not a visible member of US society.
If you are interested in their cause, do look into the plea of Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement (AIM). For those proclaiming that American Indians are well, and that they are not still being persecuted and murdered by the US governmnent, I suggest looking into the Battle at Wounded Knee and the incident at Oglala. The FBI has taken the place of the army, but American Indians are still getting shot at.
To answer your question, the American Indian is a victim of GENOCIDE.

Answer 4

~Gee, golly, gosh - if that's true then whose casinos am I losing all my money in and who is selling me all those tax free cigarettes and gas? Most have been a bunch of con-men and frauds I met at the last pow wow. And who are all those folks at Pine Ridge, Catteragus, St. Regis, Window Rock, White River, Bridgeport, Coconut Creek, Kaibad, Menominee, Moapa River, Naragansette, Poarch Creek, Pleasant Point, Port Madison and on and on? They must be, what, Korean?. Last time I looked, over 550 tribes held over 55.7 million square miles of land (almost 3% of the land mass of the US) as tribal or reservation lands at 300 or so different venues around the country, from coast to coast, from Canada to Mexico. The many full and part blood Indians I have known who live amongst the general population and off the reservations must be figments of my imagination. On the other hand, at least one or two of the 4.3 million people who claimed to have at least some Indian (or Eskimo) blood in the 2000 census must be legit, don't you think?

Answer 5

They're free to live off the Rez, most have assimilated into American society, and are indestinguishable from other Americans. I'm more than slightly confused about this question.

Answer 6

You need to get out more.

During the summer there's a Pow Wow somewhere EVERY weekend. And in winter we've been known to hold them in high school gyms, or convention centers, etc.

We're STILL here, still singing, dancing and living OUR ways.

There's an "American Indian Center" in almost every city in the U.S.

Answer 7

Well I see them in atlanta,cleveland and kansas city.The American Indian has been acclimated into our society,but many do still live on reservations that govern themselves by treaty edicts of centuries past.

Answer 8

They're not missing. Those who survived the massacres were gathered into reservations, excluding them from society. There are reservations in many states, mainly in Oklahoma.

Answer 9

Get us off this Rez and we can show our selves....

Answer 10

cuz all the damn caucasians killed them all...stole the land and said "they discovered america" when native americans already were living here...