Was What Native Americans Suffered Through Worse Than The Holocaust?

Question

Were the American settlers from Europe worse than the Nazis?

Answer 1

No deifnately not. Native Americans died from diseases brought by Europeans (I suggest reading Guns Serms and Steel by Jared Diamond for more on that), and fighting with Americans. I'm not trying to say that Indian fighting was right, but it was a two-way battle. There were wars and battles with the Native AMericans (King Philip's war, battle of wounded knew). Americans were not just hunting down and kililng Native Americans for the sake of killing.

On the other hand, the Jews were rounded up and killed for the purpose of being killed. The trail of Tears and Indian removal act was awful, but the holocaust (at least in my mind) was far worse-not that either was justified.

Answer 2

I thiink the Native Americans have had it the worst and have made little ground in overcoming. Basically, the whites killed almost all of them. What wasn't killed got forced onto reservations and to this day remain there. How many full blooded Native American people do you know or have ever known? I haven't known any. And the Afican American people have overcome their adversitties the most. The Jewish people feel it is important not to forget what happened to them and as a consequence will naturally not have progressed as far from that point as they otherwise may have.

Answer 3

What happened to the Native Americans started with Columbus and well into the twentieth century. Oh and they did complain but as they mostly lived on Reservations and had the BIA it wasn't that public I suppose. They suffered through, diseases, genocide, slavery, starvation, and prejudice as well as have their heritage torn from them because they were not of Christian beliefs.

The Holocaust is much better known than what the Native Americans suffered. Though to say which was worse I cannot as they both were terrible things that happened.

Answer 4

Depends on how you look at it. Most Indian's today may view it as yes. It was terrible. They were cheated out of their land with bogus treaties, forced to adopt American Culture, killed in battle or massacres, starved to death with the loss of most buffalo to white hunters who were greedy. But overall, the Holocaust was worse in my opinion b/c 6 million jews, gypsies, gays, etc were killed for no reason. Just to try to start a new race, genocide. They were gased, burned, shot, had many sadistic experiments tried on them and this all happened in a span of about 8 yrs. Many women, children, and men were starved to death in camps or contracted diseases and were killed or injured for life for no reason at all other than to kill off a race. So in conclusion, I believe the Holocaust was a lot worse than the taking over of Indians and their land (was still very bad).

Answer 5

what the native american went and still going though is way worst, 200 million compare to 6 million get the f out of here

Answer 6

I think it was equally bad. Hitler killed millions of Jews, Mentally ill Patients, cripples, Gipsy's and whoever else stood in his way.
Native Americans go their Land taken away by the Settlers and now life in Reservations. I never heard native Americans complain about all the Hardship they endured, like African Americans do. Mind you I am not prejudice, my husband is black, my kids are bi-racial and I love the black culture, so please don't hate about that comment. It simply is an Observation.

Answer 7

I agree with Tara that you can't compare human suffering.
Human beings have done terrible things to other human beings throughout history, and it did not stop with the Holocaust.

Answer 8

It was just as bad and went on for a lot longer.
The main difference was that in America shooting and starvation were the preferred methods whereas Hitler industrialised the process with his extermination camps

Answer 9

You can't really compare these. It's like saying one person's suffering is more important/greater than the other. Both situations are huge blots on human history.