What do you guys think about what we did to the Indians?

Question

I believe that what what done to the Indians was the most horrible genocide in the history of the earth. They had it figured out. They were smarter than we were. They lived as God intended humans to live in the respect that He gave us an earth that had everything we needed to live. There was no such thing as poverty or working a dead-end job you hated just to survive. Granted, they did work hard, but it was for themselves! No boss breathing down your back, determining your quality of life by the amount he decides you deserve. Indians just went out and got it (with effort). They simply lived life as it was. Paradise was everywhere, and it was free. We had just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Now here is poverty, pollution, extinctions, a deplinishing water supply, and just not enough to go around due to the greed that fuels American society. What do you think about this? I believe we should have begged the Indians to teach us how to live.

Answer 1

You have a romantic but false view of Native American life.

All tribes had warriors and went to war with rival tribes, they had there own gods, own customs. Some were cannibals, some were not. Some rarely ate meat, some only ate meat.

Many were warlike, most avoided war but if they saw something to there advantage they took it. The largest tribe in my state is hated by the other tribes here for enslaving them before the Europeans came.

Answer 2

It is no better and no worse than any other genocide. Genocide is genocide. Other than that quibble, I ultimately agree with you.