Who killed the American Indians?

Question

Were they the new Americans? or were they second generation British? or were they a mixture of a lot of differant nationalities? and are they an army of occupation? Will they eventually return to there own countries? Maybe they are pretending that they have lived there forever? Those poor poor Indians We had the Romans over here for about 400 yrs but they finally left

Answer 1

Pacific Union railroad.

Seriously.

They put a bounty on buffalo with the evil intent of wiping out the American Indian's main resource. The buffalo was their food staple, their winter furs and clothing, they even used the bones of the buffalo.

When hundreds of thousands of buffalo were slaughtered for the bounty money, the herds depleted practically overnight, starving the Indians and diminishing their capacity for providing themselves with clothing and shelter.

See - the railroads had to get rid of the "savage Indian threat" if they were to put down their tracks cross country.

It worked.

Answer 2

The American Indians were killed by many people and many things.

1.) They had wars going on between their nations, so the Indians killed the Indians.
2.) Most of them were a low tech culture. So many died of hunger or common diseases.
3.) European settlers killed many Indians. So it was the English, French, Scottish, Walsh, Irish, Spanish, Germans, Italian, Russians and many other groups.
4.) The Europeans brought European diseases. The Indians died of those in large numbers.
5.) Due to their genetics, the Indians were much less resistant to alcohol and became easily addicted. You might say, it was the Scotch ;-)
6.) Due to a lack of leadership and unification, the tribes got beaten one after another. There was nothing like a united Indian nation. There were Crow, Sioux, Apache, Mohicans, Iroquois and about 1000 other tribes/nations.

All in all they died like the Neanderthal-man died when the homo-sapiens arrived. Darwin would call it survival of the fittest. But that a cold hearted way to look at it.

And I don't think that the 200,000,000 Americans (or even more) plus 60,000,000 Mexicans and all the others that can't find their roots with Sitting Bull or and ancient Aztec ruler, will abandon the whole continent, to hand it over to the remains of the Indian nations.
Yes, the Romans left after a long while, bit they didn't really mix with the population, like south America, or replace the original population like north America.

Answer 3

The Americans killed the Natives. Mainly the British got on with the Native population unless they attacked settlements. One of the reasons for the American War of Independance was the Parliment of the Crown decided the cost of keeping the garrisons on the Indian Borders was too expensive and demanded tax from the American Colonists to pay. Also the Colonization of Inner America was controlled by the Crown as it did not want to antagonise the Natives, apart from the fact that a lot of Mid America was controlled by the French and Spanish.
In the late 1800's the American Goverment agreed to the mass slaughter and in some cases extintion of the Native Population of the Mid Western US, no one was immune to the American Armies plans.

Answer 4

They was the people that call them self American.
The Government wanted the land for other people to Settle
this happen in the 1800 Hunders .The Indians were the
only true American. Because they had been here since
the beginning of time they have been here for thousens
of years befour the white people got here.
So what do you thank.

Answer 5

There are still plenty of native Americans around. European settlers destroyed their environment and killed or corralled those who objected.

The Angles and Saxons invaded and ethnically cleansed what is now England long after the Romans had left.

Answer 6

Time and Circumstance killed the American Indians. We all came here from somewhere else, and I hate to answer your question with a question, but...Have you ever visited an Indian Reservation? How 'bout one in montanta?

Answer 7

American Indians were killed by American Idiots.

Answer 8

John Wayne

Answer 9

Tuberculosis the Americans, the British.

Answer 10

Native Americans had a tough time maintaining their homelands and populations once Europeans "discovered" America. Exploring Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Portuguese sailors found all sorts of "goodies" in America, such as gold and tobacco, which they kept coming here to get. Although sometimes the Europeans traded other goods for things the natives had, they considered themselves to be superior because they were fair complected, wore more clothing, were Catholic and had better weapons. (I'm not saying that they were correct - not at all - but that was generally thier attitude). Due to feeling superior, most of them felt it was better to take what they wanted from the "indians" (a name given to them because Columbus thought he had discovered a "backdoor route" to India), even if it meant killing them. They took goods, lands, raped women, enslaved people or killed them. The Indians did try fighting back, but this usually ensured that the white people ganged up on them and killed even more of them.

Once Europeans started colonizing, they also killed a lot of trees and game that sheltered and fed the Indians. They tried to bring Christianity to the Indians, who didn't necessarily think it was such a great idea, and killed the ones who wouldn't convert. They gave diseases to the Indians, such as smallpox, who died in huge numbers due to lack of immunity to these new diseases.

When the first generations of American-born people of European ancestry were adults, they felt that they owned this country, and it was theirs for the taking. This got some of them killed, but they did a lot of killing themselves.

Europeans fled their mother countries in vast numbers hoping for many things in America, among these religious freedom, better financial opportunities, and adventure. Some were also exiled here for crimes such as stealing a loaf of bread or shoes. (It was go to America or hang for many criminals - guess what they chose?)

What killed the Indians was mostly a clash of two cultural groups - the Native Americans and the Europeans - with the Europeans having the advantage of gunpowder and superior numbers. Also, many times the Indians forgave a group of white people and made treaties with them, only to be stabbed in the back. The Indian population was also comprised of many tribes who were rivals and did not see that the Europeans posed a far greater threat to them than the other tribes did. This is why the tribes did not band together and fight the Europeans at the crucial time when they could have persuaded them that things they sought were not worth a certain death. Some tribes did team up with one European group (the French) to fight another European group (the British), but this still did not give them an advantage.

After the Civil War, many Americans and Europeans went west of the Mississippi river, looking for land and gold and more opportunities and adventures. This often involved killing the people who were already there (the Native Americans) or moving what was left of them onto a really crappy piece of land called a "reservation" where they nearly starved, were made to speak English and were forbidden to speak in their own languages.

Ideas about tolerence of other cultures are actually very modern; but unfortunately, greed and selfishness seem to be eternal.

I'm not sure about what you mean about "will they eventually return to their own countries". The people who killed the Indians are all dead now, and most of them were born in America anyhow.

The good news for Native Americans and their descendents is that the government has given them free rein to build casinos on those reservations. Most "Indians" are now quite wealthy. Some tribes also discovered oil on their lands.

Also, most white Americans feel shame and guilt about what our ancestors did to the Indians, and there is a newfound respect for their ways, their music, history, world view and culture.