Are Native Americans the most misunderstood group?
828310
I don't think we are misunderstood but are underappriecated for sure. everyone says get over it but how can we when the us govt is still systematically raping my people. no medicare ,bad land back in the 50-80's all of the reservations were drilled for uranium so a lot of children were born w/defects or died due to illness. did the govt care? no they got paid for that land when they sold it off to someone wanting uranium. and all of the battles they (us govt) say we started they are the ones who started them  and passed off diseases to us and our kids. i say we should have burned the ships down when the pilgrims landed and  should have let them starved. they came here to America to escape religious persecution but then they just damned us all and each for having our own beliefs. yeah some great people huh? and why do we celebrate thanksgiving is beyond me.
993292
Native Americans are no different than any other group of people, we each have our own opinions and they are all different.  That is what makes humanity interesting and each person unique. History is  in the past, we can all learn from it.  That is why the USA made laws. By learning through years that some things need regulating. The immigration problem is one of those things.  Manifest Destiny is part of history.  So is the fact that the USA acquired land through winning a war.  The treaty, concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico was required to cede its claim to California and New Mexico, as well as lands in between them and to the north, to the United States and to recognize the Rio Grande as the southern and western boundary of Texas. In return, the United States paid Mexico a gratuitous $15 million cash and assumed some $3,250,000 more in claims of American citizens on the Mexican government. The USA never stole any land from Mexico.  Mexico lost that war, get over it.\n\nI am a Native American (half Cherokee)
638161
It is a proven fact that Indigenous peoples were set up for failure. A little history for all of you who are so close minded that you can't even come up with a tangible answer...\n \n In 1786, the United States established its first "Native American" reservation and approached each tribe as an independent nation. This policy remained intact for more than one hundred years. But as President James Monroe noted in his second inaugural address in 1821, treating Native Americans this way “flattered their pride, retarded their improvement, and in many instances paved the way to their destruction.” \n\nIn addition, Monroe observed that America’s westward growth “has constantly driven them back, with almost the total sacrifice of the lands which they have been compelled to abandon. They have claims on the magnanimity and . . . on the justice of this nation which we must all feel.” Despite Monroe’s concern for the plight of Native Americans, his administration successfully removed them from states north of the Ohio River. \n \nYeah, so Monroe, like so many others may have sympathized with our mistreatment, but still did nothing to reverse the continuing cycle of Indigenous peoples suppression!!!
419192
do your own homework.\nalso... you might get docked for not calling them native americans.
177034
It makes me sick inside when I think of that subject. I actually had a very charismatic History Teacher, he informed us when our books were trying to brainwash us. What is truly sad is that white people didn't stop with the Indians. They oppressed many cultures. Don't worry though. Our time here on earth isn't judged in groups. We all face that alone.
197914
Yes.\n\nNative Americans were a part of this great nation long before the English took over. Native Americans proudly established communities that promoted togetherness and unity and respect for the land.
998024
Yes, Native Americans are the only "true americans."\n\nBut honestly, i don't think that that is the definition that comes to mind when people ask that question. \n\nIf you believe in this country and don't agree with some aspects of it, and don't terrorize america, I think that is what truly makes you an american.
737436
The Native Americans got screwed.
675886
We should learn from the Native Americans. \nThey don't have a good immigration policies.  They were to kind, invite White men over for Thanksgiving. The rest is history.
84826
Are you talking about people from India or Native Americans
599442
By "some" people you must mean "American people"....Everyone knows that as a general rule Americans are geographically ignorant, as well as culturally challenged. (soz but it's da tooth)
618581
Back to sqaure one, my oft repeated answer to such q's (apt, and anyway  it does get me two points) \n\nI wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayfair, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots.\n\nSo this is gonna happen with the 'greasers' as you seem to allude to the people of Mexican descent in your polite, but hard hitting questions in the immigration section of Yahoo Answers!
220824
No, because that's like requiring them to risk their lives!  The definition of most ALL Americans is "immigrants".  Except for Native Americans, everybody's ancestors immigrated here.\nInstead, they should be required to take and pass English, U.S. History, Economics and Government classes.  That will ensure they'll become contributing citizens of our society.
953110
Just call them" savages" like white people did with the native Americans.It will not make it right or lawful but it might help you feel better.
412529
Save for the Native American Indians, isn't everyone from the US originally an immigrant?
570983
I wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayflower, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots\n\nst\n====================================================\nManicman:\nGive them time to, well assimilate!, as did most American forefathers! Let them understand that this (taxes, education and stuff like that) would be good for them, if you try to drive em out and hound them and try all the racism, then you are just going to increase the hatred, and have them doing stuff  like propogating the Mexican flag. \n\nDon't you understand that if you corner anybody, that being is going to cry out for help, and that's what they are doing, making the world aware of their plight by waving the Mex flag and burning the Stars and Stripes? What better way to come on prime time news than this?
149709
native americans or east indians