The american holocaust
What Ever Happened to the Indians?-A Look into the American Holocaust For years and years students across the world have studied and memorized endless gory facts about massive genocides such as the Jewish Holocaust, the World War Two atomic bombs, and the religious Crusades. These were extremely significant events during the history of the world because they changed the lives of so many people. Millions of people were killed during these three events simply because of their religion or the color of their skin. All of these genocides were unique for one reason or another including the numbers of people killed or the time period in which it took place (Stannard 151). Several books, including school textbooks, often go into great detail describing these bloody events. However, as horrible as these extensive murders were, there was another massive genocide that occurred right in our own country that is barely acknowledged when compared with these other three, especially the Jewish Holocaust. The extermination of almost all Native American Indians was easily one of the most horrific genocides in history, totaling nearly 100,000,000 deaths (Stannard 151). Yet this particular genocide is barely given any attention. In his bo
All in all I completely agree with Stannard that the American holocaust was terrible and completely unnecessary. The Europeans used many different methods of torture including hangings, cutting off body parts, feeding the Indians to the dogs, and burning houses full of Indians, and then throwing all of the bodies into a large pit. David Stannard's argument that we often overlook this particular genocide was very effective. David Stannard uses passionate language to describe the events of the American Holocaust. Because we aren't taught specifics about the massacres in school, I never knew that virtually every Indian in America was killed, for almost no reason. This partly explains why there is extremely little attention given to the American Indian Holocaust. Never before had I seen this genocide in comparison with others, such as the Jewish Holocaust. Europeans believed that the Indians were created by God as a special race that was destined to be enslaved; therefore, the Europeans would cut off the Indian's hands and noses for their contumacy, or for their resistance of the conquistador's demands that they behave in a way consistent with that of a natural slave (Stannard 210). For the most part the Indians were friendly towards the Europeans and did what they could to help, yet they were repeatedly stabbed in the back by the settlers. Throughout history, white people have been more inclined to place more emphasis on events and occurrences that have had more of an impact on our race and culture and less emphasis on cultures and peoples that are different, hence the major stress of the importance of the Jewish Holocaust. Naturally, many of the Indians did not cooperate with the Europeans demands that they become slaves, and the result was the slaughtering of hundreds of Indians at a time. The Europeans thought the Indians were savages because they had darker skin and lived differently, which in their minds gave them the right to kill off all the natives. The Europeans would descend upon an Indian settlement, take anything of value, and then massacre every Indian they could capture. The book convinces the reader that the Europeans were terrible people who had no right to exterminate the Indian population.
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