gtZip wrote:Umm, we pretty much tried to wipe out the entire native american race, or 'races'.
How many native americans have you met out in the general populance in your lifetime?
Not like Mexicans or others, but I run into them consistently, and have been friends with several full blooded Native Americans. Then again, the Mexicans don't have SOVEREIGN LAND within America's borders, as Native Americans do!
But your statement above is just wrong.
We didn't try and wipe them out.
As occurred in South America, large percentages of their populations died from European dieases. People try and make out like we just floated in here on boats one day, and subdued all the Indians in a few months and put them on Reservations.
There is a LONG history of European settlers dealing with Native Americans, going on for HUNDREDS OF YEARS!
And Native American tribes had wars amongst "THEMSELVES" LONG BEFORE we ever got here. Some tribes were BRUTAL in their treatment of enemy tribes. This was not a PEACE LOVING land of nature people, that were victimized in their innocence and co-existent lives with other tribes.
Many attempts were made to assimilate them into American Society, starting with George Washington himself. We fought wars with them until the late 1800's. They were given SOVEREIGN Reservations to maintain their cultures and lifestyles... which they do, to this day! They are also American Citizens simultaneously, thanks to an act of Congress in the early 1900's or something.
And European influence on Native Americans lasted a few hundred years.
Compare that with numerous THOUSANDS of years with Jews.
There is NO comparison in history.
But keep looking for one!

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