"hey you aren't the victim of an attempted murder if you fought back so yea"
currently native americans make up around 2% of america's population. I think they killed us a hell of a lot more than we did to them. Also the holocaust was based on the american treatment of the natives so there is always that.
Overstatement, given into consideration that over a 33%-70% of the genome of the Latin Americans come from native populations whereas in USA there are barely no Natives, as you yourself said.
not an overstatement. Columbus landed on an island in the gulf, enslaved the locals and left. When he returned his colony was dead and he killed the entire tribe of natives on that island blaming them for not keeping the colony alive.
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Which is why not everyone is happily celebrating Columbus Day. @famousone - I have a feeling what you're saying isn't exactly representing the views of most Native Americans who identify as such. Also it's a bit of a moot question who fired the first shot, when the real question is who came to some other peoples land to claim it as their possession.
Natives usually have anger directed at the people and the descendants of the people that actually did the act of taking the land. The British at one point actual told the colonies they couldn't expand anymore and the colonists said fuck that and invaded further inland again anyways. Out of all of the white people natives of the time had to deal with the actual governments of the European nations were the best. They traded (a lot with that French) and it was mostly the people trying to actively make homes here that were hostile.
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While it's true that the british set the direction and general conditions of what happened even before american independence, it's the USA that kept on treating them as foreigners in their own country after they kicked out the british.
I again point to the fact that the rounding up, killing, and reservation-izing of the native americans was bad enough to be used as skeleton for hitler's plan for the holocaust as to another reason why natives are primarily mad at american white people
I mean the way I see it, they were conquered and taken over. Kind of like how the country uses its military force to take land away from another, and kind of like how the native tribes were doing it to each other before the Europeans arrived.
currently native americans make up around 2% of america's population. I think they killed us a hell of a lot more than we did to them. Also the holocaust was based on the american treatment of the natives so there is always that.