Native Americans were to the U.S. Government as Jews were to the Nazis. Reservations are to Natives as Internment Camps are to Jews. (Somebody had to lead by example, Hitler admired and learned much from the U.S. Governmental treatment of Native americans)
12,000 Navajos were marched onto the reservation at Bosque Redondo.
Within 4 years, half the tribe died from starvation. Because of failing crops and inadequate supplies.
Results were not good, and nearly killed off the Navajo as a result. These reservations weren't paradises, and they definitely were intentional attempts to let us rot away.
Simply put friend, we lived on the lands they wanted. So they put Natives on useless land that they couldn't use. And if we died out as a result even better. Because in the late 1800's and early 1900's many reservations were being carved up by the Federal government to make room for settlers.
Thats what happened to the Indian Nations or now known as Oklahoma. This land that was supposed to be left alone for the tribes that were moved there. That was taken away, and since Natives weren't citizens (not until the 1920's and 40's) once we lost our land there was nothing we could do because we weren't seen as American citizens.
I was thinking along the lines of Salish Lady...there were "reasons" for Jewish concentration/extermination camps set up by the Nazi government. There were also "reasons" for the Czarist pogroms before that...doesn't mean that these "reasons" were REASONABLE...moral...or right.
You'll probably get a lot of rationalizations here from those that want to justify the "reasons"...(to end wars, to expand the growing population, necessary evil, etc.) ...doesn't make it right though.
To avoid war with the Indians. That was the main goal with the U.S. governments indian Reservations. They were some-what succsessfull in almost completley stopping war's with the Indians.
They were created in order to keep us under control. Not so long ago, it was still legal to shoot us if we left the rez without permission. They placed us on lands that they didn't want, or that nobody had homesteaded. This gave them free reign over the rest of our territory.
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Native Americans were to the U.S. Government as Jews were to the Nazis. Reservations are to Natives as Internment Camps are to Jews. (Somebody had to lead by example, Hitler admired and learned much from the U.S. Governmental treatment of Native americans)
12,000 Navajos were marched onto the reservation at Bosque Redondo.
Within 4 years, half the tribe died from starvation. Because of failing crops and inadequate supplies.
Results were not good, and nearly killed off the Navajo as a result. These reservations weren't paradises, and they definitely were intentional attempts to let us rot away.
Simply put friend, we lived on the lands they wanted. So they put Natives on useless land that they couldn't use. And if we died out as a result even better. Because in the late 1800's and early 1900's many reservations were being carved up by the Federal government to make room for settlers.
Thats what happened to the Indian Nations or now known as Oklahoma. This land that was supposed to be left alone for the tribes that were moved there. That was taken away, and since Natives weren't citizens (not until the 1920's and 40's) once we lost our land there was nothing we could do because we weren't seen as American citizens.
I was thinking along the lines of Salish Lady...there were "reasons" for Jewish concentration/extermination camps set up by the Nazi government. There were also "reasons" for the Czarist pogroms before that...doesn't mean that these "reasons" were REASONABLE...moral...or right.
You'll probably get a lot of rationalizations here from those that want to justify the "reasons"...(to end wars, to expand the growing population, necessary evil, etc.) ...doesn't make it right though.
Belated acknowledgement of their rights.
The result is the same as putting a band-aid on an amputed leg.
The other answer gives out an attitude of how much the white man gained or lost(profit & loss account) that is disgusting to me, at least.
To avoid war with the Indians. That was the main goal with the U.S. governments indian Reservations. They were some-what succsessfull in almost completley stopping war's with the Indians.
They were created in order to keep us under control. Not so long ago, it was still legal to shoot us if we left the rez without permission. They placed us on lands that they didn't want, or that nobody had homesteaded. This gave them free reign over the rest of our territory.