The Greatest Nation on Earth?

I'm Native American,Apache,Navajo!!!!
I'm not extinct!!!
We are still here!!!!
They have white washed America!!!

You do realize that Native Americans were killing each other LONG before the USA existed right? 

Natives still exists and had more rights that Russians in USSR.

On behalf of the many, many Americans who are too heartless to say it:

Sorry, First Nation peoples. Our bad. 's prolly not gonna make anything better, but I wish it hadn't happened. That's not even like white guilt or anything, I don't like genocide on a conceptual level (since it's well, an evil war crime), but that's not really the point. My lack of personal involvement does not mean I have not benefited from the century-spanning campaign to silence your voices by any and all means;  and for that, I'm genuinely sorry. I wouldn't describe this feeling as shame, so much as it feels like a lot of funerals at once. So it's like mourning, but on such a scale that I get numb and angry and want to find something to hurt to solve the problem. I don't know what that would even be, I just don't want to make it worse. I am entirely aware that dolor isn't comparable to what y'all went through, are going through, and will go through in the future. It is...there are not words. It was wrong to build an empire by using the blood of so many in the mortar. I can't really overstate it, even.

I'm not ashamed; that's the wrong word. It feels more like I don't want to be human anymore if that's how humans treat each-other. It's like that feeling when you want to hide under a blanket in order to be safe from things that are upsetting. It's empty, cold, and hurts. 

I don't know what I can do to help besides listen, and then make sure no one forgets.

I say give the entire country back !!!t but not my house thats difrent

Native Americans are not "conquered" or "extinct". If you want to point out anything it should be the resilience and survivance of native americans after the countless attempts of genocide.  By portraying natives as such you are contributing to the problem.

We are not dead, or extinct. We are a living breathing people, and we have stifled voices, but we demand to be heard.

I have an oil pipe line running through my homeland. I'd like to see it some day, it's too far north for me to get there right now.

I don't like being called extinct.

Good to point out the truth in these dark times.

land of the conquered... gold
home of the extinct? not true. I think you could pick a better word than extinct that really show your not a fan of nationalism and undue patriotism. I faved it.

The way the American Government treated the Native Americans will always be a dark stain on our history and i believe the Government should give the First Americans a little more consideration

...welcome to every country in existence. It's what humans do in the name of survival; get them before they get you.

Nice...

Welp. That's history. Which makes me think of this line in a song, "..They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil.." That pretty much sums up much of history.

But what about the Lakota Nation? Do you support that?

So true, like The United States became the British Imperist that ruled them before hand after the revolution

Patriotism is a lot like religion in how irrational and venomous it can be.

Some of my ancestors fought in rebellion against the British and then Canadian governments, as development of railroads and land treaties destroyed their way of life, and the governments attempted to repress them as second class citizens, and later attempted to destroy their culture entirely. All of it went on for almost 150 years, only ending in the sixties. So while most of the wrongs were done far in the past, things were not fully made right. They have equal rights and government aid while on reservations. But so many years of repression left deep scars, and the communities are not where they should be. Drug abuse, poverty, homelessness...

I don't hate my country - despite its past crimes it has become a great nation for liberties, opportunities, and equality. But more has to be done.

I fully sympathize.

Agreed. I'm American and ashamed by what my birth nation did and still does to its people and others. I'm moving when I graduate college.