Which group was more unfairly treated the native americans or African Americans?

Question

The Native Americans were unfairly treated lied to numerous times when it came to treaties and stripped of a lot of the Americas, a place where they clearly settled at first. The Africans were brought to America and striped of their culture. Very few people know that Africans were among the first people to develop civilizations and nation states. They had a good salt and gold trade so their economy was good. Once they arrived to America they were striped of their culture and taught that black is inferior. Kids were separated from their Parents as they were treated like cattle and passed from one plantation to the next as slave owners brought and traded slaves. Today blacks suffer from self hatred. Black Americans are not taught their history and have no true knowledge of their self.

Answer 1

To answer your question - they were both treated very unfairly.

Part of the "good" economy that certain Africans had was slavery. That is correct - slavery. Africans selling Africans. Either you are unaware, or you chose to leave this out intentionally. People are still being treated as slaves today.

Answer 2

Native Americans. They were enslaved by the Spanish long before the Africans were brought from the slave ships. They had their land taken from them. They were slaughtered by violence and disease that the Europeans brought to America. They had many treaties with the US which were repeatedly broken. Even today the government does not obey the treaties that are in place. They are a sovereign nation as long as it is convenient for the US government, but not when the government wants something from them. They get little if any money for their reservations for services, but the government wants to profit off their gains with taxes. They have no jurisdiction over their own reservations unless it is a tribe member on tribe member crime and the punishment is suitable in the eyes of the government. Yes African Americans were slaves. Yes they were not treated as equals, or even human, and there is still rampant racism in the US, but Native Americans experienced everything that the African Americans have gone through plus much more, plus there are a lot of tribes that are growing so small that they almost no longer exist. I do not think the African American community is at the same risk of having their identity vanish.

Answer 3

American Indians by a long shot, if you take the longer view. Everything that happened to African slaves had already happened to Indians, and in fact the African slave trade began because the Indian slaves available to the Spanish (and Portugese down south) had been worked to death, and they needed a new labor pool. Later, the native tribes were not subjected to slavery so much; they were simply exterminated. Neither, however, is exactly a shining example of human rights. Keep in mind, too, that much of our current sociologic difficulty with race is due not to the period of legal slavery but to the "dark period" after Reconstruction ended, in which many of the new rights of the newly-freed slaves were allowed to be taken back.

Answer 4

Given the circumstance, the native Americans being the proprieties of the land, and the African-Americans imported as slaves, the native Americans have been treated the most unfairly.

Answer 5

While the Blacks were slaved, and as children taken away. Our people were shot, and for the children usually a boot heel or rifle butt because "bullets cost money"

I guess it could depend on your point of view which is worse, Shackles and future generations, or a Bullet in your back left to rot in the sun.

We both lost alot, culture, language, family.

In the long run I think we might have gotten the better simply because there were enough of us to fight back.

Answer 6

personally i think they were both treated very un fairly they both were striped of there culture indians had to go to school and become pratically "unsavage" like "whites" were supposedly blacks were beated anf]d did all the farming so were indians they were both deprived of way sfro there cultur also idians had longer years of hard ship even though not many of them were slaves they practically were killed or worked to death take a look at the aztec regions spanidsh people took there cultur eacted lik gods an dthen killed many of them off

Answer 7

hard to say, since alot of ther suffering came from there lack of helpng those who sought to harm others of there kind such a blacks in Africa helping to round up oter blacks for the Dutch slave traders, it would not havce been able to happen, if they had not been so greedy for bling bling trinkets, such as the eskimos,asians ad south americans who refused to turn on one another, but fought as a group those who sought to enslave them, as to the Indians, they squabbled to much amounst themselves, inte tribal wars decimated there warriors, and ability to pull toghether to stand against the oppresors, they even helped kill ther distant kin of othe trips, for trinkets and wampum as it was called back then. so half ther e suffering is knowing they where responsible for a large part of there own pain. Lofeon this wolrld is harsh at best, and there is always, and will always be, some people trying to take or enlave in one form or another , another people or nation. sad as it is, we are often at fault for our own collaspes as a people. United we stand, Divided we fall, a nation diveded cannot stand.

Answer 8

I think it all depends on who you talk to. There are some native american indians who will tell you that there is a lot of truth to the savagery of the indians with the early american settlers. Some will even say the indians where treated much kinder than most history books state.

Answer 9

They were both treated horribly. Many have over come the past and moved on. Because we cant change the past, the ones who did the wrong are dead.