Azriel Gutierrez
History 101
Mrs. Connors
April 6 2018
Genocide
History repeats itself, sometimes it is inevitable for it to happen. History will always hold a place for Tragedy and sadness. It is something that may affect millions of people. Which in times we look back only to see the inhumane actions committed by the people who we see as evil and malicious. The very people who stood strongly for their ideology. Genocide, perhaps the most disturbing and atrocious acts a human being can ever commit, yet so many times it occurs. The Holocaust is perhaps the most well known genocide to this day; but we must not forget that the Native Americans also experienced their tragedy and sadness. Both the Jews and the Native Americans were not wanted. …show more content…
Bartolome states “They would erect long gibbets . . . and bind thirteen of the Indians at one time, in honour and reverence, they said, of Our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, and put firewood around it and burn the Indians alive”. The Spaniards would do this to many indians which would later be recognized as genocide. Bartolome also states that “Another time, because the Indians did not give him a coffer filled with gold, . . . they killed an infinite number of souls, and cut off the hands and noses of countless women and men, and others they threw to the savage dogs, who ate them and tore them to pieces”. The actions committed by the Spaniards was obviously inhumane and this was practically the way they commited genocide towards the native people of the Americas. As mentioned earlier the superiority and control that the Europeans had over the Natives was substantially enough; which is why they were able to commit such a crime as …show more content…
The most obvious one is death both the natives and the Jews had many death tolls in their societies. According to an article “Were American Indians the victims of genocide?” by Guenter Lewy he explains how “ according to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 minion in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a "vast genocide ..., the most sustained on record” (Lewy, para 3). This affected the natives dramatically because due to the genocide their culture would also extinguish a lot more as well. Lewy states that “The Indians were not prepared to give up the nomadic life of the hunter for the sedentary life of the farmer” (Lewy, ch.5, para 10). The Jews during the postwar decades were not the same as they were during the prewar of world war two. According to an online article “The Rebuilding of Jewish Life After The Holocaust” by Eli Brackman, he explains how “Upon immigrating to America, for example, Jews would change their names and dress; Judaism became something exclusively for the home and distinctiveness was something of the past” (Brackman, para 7). With there being less Natives and Jews during the period of their genocide it would without a doubt be a struggle to resume certain cultures that went on before the genocide