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Question: Which was worse indentured/enslavement or the Genocide of Native Americans!?
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Native Americans were slaves right across the North America continent!. They were enslaved a lot longer than black slaves!. Native Americans were slaves up until the 1900s through the Boarding School system!. Many Native Americans who were boarding school slaves are still alive!.

Native women and children were stolen for the sex slave trade!. This was common practice of the military and the miners during the Gold Rush!. News reports indicate the sex trade is still happening in the Americas
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Most people are aware that the Spanish in the Caribbean cut off the hands, arms and legs off Native American as punishment!. On the East coast they cut of the toes off to prevent Native Americans from running away!. Children in the boarding school system were punished to the point of death!.
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The Massachusetts government offered 20 shillings bounty for every Indian scalp, and 40 shillings for every prisoner who could be sold into slavery!. Soldiers were allowed to enslave any Indian woman or child under 14 they could capture!.

The "Praying Indians" who had converted to Christianity and fought on the side of the European troops…… They were enslaved or killed!.

Other "peaceful" Indians of Dartmouth and Dover were invited to negotiate or seek refuge at trading posts--and were sold onto slave ships!.

It is not known how many Indians were sold into slavery, but in this campaign, 500 enslaved Indians were shipped from Plymouth alone!.
http://rwor!.org/a/firstvol/883/thank!.htm
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The Legacy of Native American Schools
http://www!.amnestyusa!.org/amnestynow/sou!.!.!.

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Federal Indian agents sent Native American children from the ages of five to 20 to boarding schools!. Often, they took the children without consent of parents!. The boarding schools provided little or no educational benefit to indigenous people (Noriega, 1992)!.

Central to the boarding school movement were Manual Labor Schools where American Indian youth trained on farms and in domestic tasks from 1834 on!. An outing system that placed American Indian students in farms, homes or businesses for vocational training from Indian boarding schools was described in contemporary and historical accounts as a source of slave labor more than a training opportunity (Noriega,1992; Trennert, 1983)!.
http://www!.dshs!.wa!.gov/pdf/ca/RaceDispro!.!.!.

It has been recently estimated that more than 600,000 South-eastern Native Americans were enslaved between 1521 and 1776!. Adult Native American slaves would often escape Virginia plantations unless their toes were cut off!.
http://www!.baconsrebellion!.com/Issues07/!.!.!.
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California - in 1769, a Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra… set out to make the native populations slaves to the farms supporting the missions!. Spanish soldiers kidnapped Indians by the thousands!. If they misbehaved, they were whipped, branded, mutilated or even executed!.

The Gold Rush of 1849!. European miners who saw Indian women as concubines and Indian men as slaves or even as shooting targets for sport!.
California Genocide
http://www!.pbs!.org/indiancountry/history!.!.!.

John Sutter and California’s Indians
The Capt!. [Sutter] keeps 600 to 800 Indians in a complete state of Slavery…!. I could not reconcile my feelings to see these fellows being driven, around some narrow troughs of hollow tree trunks, out of which, crouched on their haunches, they fed more like beasts than human beings, using their hands in hurried manner to convey to their mouths the thin porage!. Soon they filed off to the fields after having, I fancy, half satisfied their physical wants!."
http://www!.historynet!.com/john-sutter-an!.!.!.
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The BATAAN 60-mile Death March took less then a week!. The doesn’t even compare to the Native American DEATH MARCHES, over hundreds of miles lasing weeks and months!.

People only think of the trail of tears a single event involving the Cherokee!. There were many DEATH MARCHES as the Indian peoples were removed to the West!.

Delaware
Ottawa
Shawnee
Pawnee
Potawatomi
Sauk and Fox
Miami
Kickapoo
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Creek
Seminole
The Cherokee were among the last to go!.
Cherokee Removal
http://www!.powersource!.com/cocinc/histor!.!.!.

Most were removed in the dead of winter without food, proper clothing or shelter!. Those who were removed during summer didn’t survive any better because of heat and drought!. Thousand died in route and hundreds starved to death at their destination!.

An attempt to relocate the Chippewa killed half through starvation!.
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Once the tribes were settled in the West, through the Dawes Act and the Homestead Act!. Native Americans were dispossessed and relocated again!.

Through the Termination Act 1950-1960!. 150 reservations were terminated and the people were dispossessed and many were relocated!.

A conservative estimate is that 50,000 children died it the Boarding School System!.

Trying to say that GENOCIDE didn’t happen in the UNITED STATES is a total lie!.

Learn your HISTORY!. It’s written in black and white and will remain as evidence forever!.
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I prefer to just acknowledge that both happened and that they have lasting global legacies!. I would rather not decide which was worse, because they were both crimes against humanity (even though dark-skinned people were seen as subhuman)!. To me, acknowledging this part of the narrative is an ongoing thing, because there are always those who, for whatever reasons, try to sidestep the issue!. They say things like "I never enslaved anybody" and therefore wash their hands of the whole thing!.

What Europeans and Americans did, and are doing, to Africa is also an under-represented part of this story!.

And of course, we deliberately leave out all of the slave and indigenous uprisings that were, and continue to be, brutally put down!.

The more white America screams "freedom" and "democracy," the less these things actually exist!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

What's worse than either of those two is someone who is a "top contributor" in a section as frivolous and meaningless as Dream Interpretation pretending to know anything about history!. There was no actual genocide of Native Americans, what happened to them was certainly not right but it wasn't genocide, but then I guess if you studied actual genocides that have occurred in history you would know that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Obviously, several of these answers are ignorant of world history!. Nothing that was done in America was new!. Slavery has existed and still exists today in parts of the world, if you don't admit that truth, then you are an idiot!. What happened to the various indian tribes is only termed genocide by the most fervent America haters!. The ONLY instance which could be considered genocide today(the term wasn't invented until 1943) was the passing along of small pox infected blankets to indians as gifts and that was approved by British General Jeffrey Amherst in the 1760's, long before America was even a country!.

The trail of tears, for instance, is evidence of cruel and barbarous treatment of the Cherokee by the American government, just as the Bataan Death March was a cruel and barbarous treatment of the Americans and Phillipinos during WW2!. Neither, however, are examples of genocide!.

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I should think genocide is the absolute worst, since there is no getting around that, is there!? You can survive endentured servitude, and even prosper once you've been freed!. You can even survive slavery with the hope that one day your descendants will be free!. But you can't survive genocide!. That's curtains for you, all your kinfolks as well, and there will be no descendants!. No hope there!. Of course, that was the whole idea, as expressed in that most monstrous of sayings, "Nits will be lice!." That was the abhorrent excuse given for murdering even small children, that one day they'd grow up otherwise!. Incredible, isn't it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would have to say genocide is worse!. I once read that Hitler studied America's methodology of exterminating the Indians as a young man!. I wounder if it influenced him to do what he did to the Jews!. Scary thought though! Even as I type this, millions of Americans are preparing to celebrate thanksgiving, which in my opinion should be called your welcome European hypocrites day!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It depends on your definition of bad!.Www@QuestionHome@Com