How do Americans feel about the way Native Americans were treated?

[BoxingGorilla]

It all worked out for the best.

I feel as bad as I can about something that happened so long before time.


I just read a book that has a chapter about Wounded Knee. Who started it, was the question.

Amazon.com: Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events (9780471283683): Paul Aron: Books

[Nameless]

I can hardly believe that some think that they are ok today;

Sure, they have a problem with alcohol because they do not have the same hormones as us to digest alcohol but once again, it would blatantly fool to think that the white man didn't take opportunity over it to shove down anything they wanted capitalizing on their crave for alcohol.
When you look down on history, you see how the white man was scornful toward them and how they battered them in any way possible, from the forced conversion to christianity to the land looting and less we forget how some strategy were developed to kill as many wild cows as possible in order to starve some of the tribes.
Sure, we did give them some compensations and some privileges but that is so minor compared to everything that has been done and it appears clear to me that from en environment point of view, they were 1000 times better before the arrival of the white men and neither did they lack of anything at all.
Sure as well, we didn't talk (to answer to Lyle) about what Sherman did to the sudists, which is horrible as well but the topic in course was what we did to the natives, the quasi genocide of a people.
When you look at the casinos and such today that they build, peoples have to realize that it is a very SLIM minority in the reserves that get the real benefices from it. Close to where I live in Quebec (well, 3 hours away, more or less) there is a few of these reserves, I went myself to visit as I was wondering how it looks like.... and i say that all of those who think that it is pink and candy should visit it, I've been horribly shocked about what I've seen, seriously.
Can we repare what have been done? I am not sure. NOt sure at all. Still, it is not a reason to not feel ashamed by what happened, I am not directly responsible for it, my personal ancesters arrived after the so called "massacre" but still, I feel bad for what happened, especially knowing that wouldn't have the white man landed here, everything would be much better.