Do any of you think the native americans were treated fairly by the "american settlers"?

Question

just a question.........................

If most of you agree that they werent treated fairly shouldnt the native american people today be compensated for the treacherous sins of your forefathers? LAND OF THE PILGRIMS PRIDE YES BUT FREEDOM FROM EVERY MOUNTAINSIDE .................HELL NO!

Answer 1

you receive another " NO " from me, also. The European
" invaders " never kept any treaty made and they only kept their word on one thing. this was when the Europeans said, " we see what you have -- we want it -- we are going to take it from you by any means possible. " this is what they did.

Answer 2

I kinda agree with Spike from that one Buffy the Vampire Slayer Thanksgiving episode: this is what conquering nations do! By modern mores, what happened to the Native Americans was criminal. At the time, the American settlers were seizing their opportunity to take over the North American continent from "savages" and thought themselves justified in their actions. There is no just compensation for what was done.

The US was not alone in eradicating indigenous peoples. The native New Zealanders were all killed off by the influx of white settlers. I'm sure non-Caucasians have killed off various populations throughout the world as well. Sad but true. Humans are their own invasive species.

Answer 3

I must be specific in my answer. Mom is part-Cherokee on both sides of her family.She is Dutch. Dad is French with some Jewish. The Dutch were the fair ones in their dealings with all other cultures. They were the only Europeans allowed in Japan when the Shoguns closed the land to foreigners in 1603. I do not know of any Dutchmen treating Native Americans badly. The Spanish were the most savage to them. The English were not as bad as the Spanish but bad enough. The French usually treated the Native Americans well enough and had alliances against the English with them. If any reparations were made, i should get a share, but I think things that happened long ago are not relevant now. Who is guilty?

Answer 4

Depends on when and where. Some settlers (Simon Kenton, Daniel Boone, and Sam Houston, to name a few of the prominent among them) had a lot of respect for Indian culture, and treated them with respect in both peace and war. On the whole, however, the white man has nothing to be proud of. Indians were run off all the decent land and herded into concentration camps where many of them remain to this day. On the whole, Indian reservations are poverty pits filled with burnt out drunks. But as someone else mentioned, a few have made it big in the gambling business, because, for all the flaws of the reservation system, they are technically independent nations, so the white man's law doesn't apply there. That left some tribes (especially ones located near large white population centers) to exploit this loophole and collect big. How long that continues is in doubt as gambling expands nationally. It isn't just on the reservations anymore! What do you want to bet they get screwed over again?

Answer 5

In the history of the world, land has belonged to whoever could take it and hold it. That was as true of native peoples as of others. Even nomadic peoples, who did not own land in the traditional sense, fought for and defended hunting and grazing lands against others competing for the same rare resources.

Civilized persons accept no excuses for intolerance, cruelty, and casual murder, but neither the invading Europeans nor the native peoples they slaughtered were 'civilized.' Civilized means 'living in cities,' secure in a society of law.

That said, I have to chuckle over oil being discovered in Oklahoma under the land to which the Cherokee (and others) were forcibly renewed, and I don't lose sleep over 'Indian' nations that exploit their 'white' neighbors with casinos.

Answer 6

Some native American tribes are finally getting even by placing casinos on their property and raking in the white man's dollars.

Seriously though, its an abominable history we have with the native Americans and should be addressed through massive reparations. However, since they don't represent a large voting block nor control fossil fuel deposits they will get nothing but lip service from our elected officials. We as a nation don't demand it therefore our officials won't provide it.

Answer 7

At first, by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, yes. Things went a bit downhill from there.

Answer 8

Just as with slave reparations, my family had nothing to do with the mistreatment of Indians anymore than they did with slavery since my relatives legally immigrated to the States in 1900 from Ireland.

There are millions of caucasians who arrived in the states decades after the end of slavery and American Indian persecutions and have nothing to do with those issues of reparations.

There are hundreds of thousands of caucasian immigrants who are victims of racist affirmative action and minority quotas. Shouldn't they receive reparations?

Answer 9

No!!! I think the native Americans were seriously misled into believing our ancestors were kind and caring. Because of their absence of Jesus and the way they lived they were considered animals and heathens and finally murdered, raped, pillaged, and starved out and finally forced to surrender to save their people all in the name of Christianity.
In the end, it was all about skin color, culture, and real estate.

Answer 10

NO!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

Every Country has done bad things and are still doing bad thing!

We need to keep bringing up the past until EVERY human being learns how to be TRUE HUMANITARIANS not just say they are!