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Were those Americans of European descent the only ones who took part in the genocide of Native Americans in this country? Should other Native Americans and Black Americans share any culpability in what ended up happening to them? Many soldiers, especially in the Union, blacks served as soldiers. Also, it was the US Army who were also culpable in what happened to Native Americans at Wounded Knee especially. Many hundreds of years ago, there millions of Amerindian people at least throughout all of the Americas, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America. In the US, less than 300,000 of them were left by about 1900.
From data taken from historynewsnetwork.org, here is the official data:
Thus, according to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a"vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record." By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the"worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people." In the judgment of Lenore A. Stiffarm and Phil Lane, Jr.,"there can be no more monumental example of sustained genocide—certainly none involving a 'race' of people as broad and complex as this—anywhere in the annals of human history."
The sweeping charge of genocide against the Indians became especially popular during the Vietnam war, when historians opposed to that conflict began drawing parallels between our actions in Southeast Asia and earlier examples of a supposedly ingrained American viciousness toward non-white peoples. The historian Richard Drinnon, referring to the troops under the command of the Indian scout Kit Carson, called them"forerunners of the Burning Fifth Marines" who set fire to Vietnamese villages, while in The American Indian: The First Victim (1972), Jay David urged contemporary readers to recall how America’s civilization had originated in"theft and murder" and"efforts toward . . . genocide."
- See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302#sthash.LvR75Nji.dpuf "
I find it sickening that genocide occurs anywhere much less the US. It is also quite sad that many Natives who were once living in the entire country were put into reservations. Was it true that Native Americans were not considered citizens in their own land? TBH, as badly as we as black Americans were treated, there are millions of us, making us between 10-15% of the US population (notwithstanding the mass "genocide" of the abortion industry IMO). Native Americans are struggling culturally and make up less than 1% of the American population, not to gloss over or lessen what happened to specifically black Americans. I would like for you to correct me and the bolded data wrong, if we are wrong.
From data taken from historynewsnetwork.org, here is the official data:
Thus, according to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a"vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record." By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the"worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people." In the judgment of Lenore A. Stiffarm and Phil Lane, Jr.,"there can be no more monumental example of sustained genocide—certainly none involving a 'race' of people as broad and complex as this—anywhere in the annals of human history."
The sweeping charge of genocide against the Indians became especially popular during the Vietnam war, when historians opposed to that conflict began drawing parallels between our actions in Southeast Asia and earlier examples of a supposedly ingrained American viciousness toward non-white peoples. The historian Richard Drinnon, referring to the troops under the command of the Indian scout Kit Carson, called them"forerunners of the Burning Fifth Marines" who set fire to Vietnamese villages, while in The American Indian: The First Victim (1972), Jay David urged contemporary readers to recall how America’s civilization had originated in"theft and murder" and"efforts toward . . . genocide."
- See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302#sthash.LvR75Nji.dpuf "
I find it sickening that genocide occurs anywhere much less the US. It is also quite sad that many Natives who were once living in the entire country were put into reservations. Was it true that Native Americans were not considered citizens in their own land? TBH, as badly as we as black Americans were treated, there are millions of us, making us between 10-15% of the US population (notwithstanding the mass "genocide" of the abortion industry IMO). Native Americans are struggling culturally and make up less than 1% of the American population, not to gloss over or lessen what happened to specifically black Americans. I would like for you to correct me and the bolded data wrong, if we are wrong.