Dude I'm sorry but we were total pricks to the Native Americans. I honestly don't think there is a thing on this earth we could sacrifice to atone for that.

If I had to choose, I would have to say Native Americans only because it has been happening for almost 500 years. although jewish people got their homeland back, Native Americans are yet to get their rightful homeland back or their own country....and unfortunatelly most probably never will. Claim by someone that the land was given back to the Native Americans such as Indian Reservations is a word play. Relocating and killing, aka ethnic cleansing, is not the same thing as getting homeland again. Jews did suffer in the Holocaust, no one can deny that, but at least they were able to get what is rightfully theirs, Native Americans didnt.

I also agree that they can't be compared, but I'm posting on this side because of outcomes. The Jews survived, as a population, the Holocaust and were able to rebuild and strengthen their population. Also, most people look back on WWII with compassion for the Jewish people and reverence for their bravery in going through the ordeal. They did go through several years of hardships, but they're still here and the memories of the fallen are honored.

Native Americans are a forgotten peoples. They were wiped out and their culture is constantly misinterpreted, like in Peter Pan (the song "Why does the red man say 'How?'" or something like that.) In a sense, they are no longer Native Americans because their culture is destroyed and their peoples are scattered and have become known as alcoholics and casino owners.

Let me start by saying this isn't really a fair debate, as both groups were terrorized in horrendous ways. It's just unfair to compare victimization.

The Native Americans were practically wiped out for all intents and purposes, had their land stolen, and were given paltry consolations after fighting hard to get them. They were nearly wiped out because of disease, both purposely and accidentally, as well as the advantages technology gave Europeans in terms of weaponry. They were marched across the nation, barefoot, in the freezing cold, and many starved and died along the way. Furthermore, their culture and heritage have been completely perverted by the influx of Europeans into their land.

The Jews, on the other hand, were rounded up in an attempt to wipe them out, which failed. On that point, the Native Americans had it worse. Nonetheless, six million Jewish people died (in addition to millions more who were gypsies, prisoners of war, homosexuals, etc.), so it's not as though they escaped a terrible fate here. They were starved, separated from their families, and forced to work and live in the worst of conditions. Babies were thrown into incinerators, people were sent to gas chambers with the knowledge they were being sent to die, and brutal experiments were performed on human subjects. I think in this way, the Jewish were subject to worse in terms of actions against them.

So basically the question comes to which is worse the successful near-wipeout of a population and culture through horrific means or the unsuccessful attempted-wipeout of a population through worse means? I'm not sure we can compare.

This is a joke right?! What our forefathers did to the Natives of America was bad, but the Native Americans were given a fighting chance. They didn't enslave and kill the Natives, they converted them and encouraged them to live on missions. And those that rebelled had a fighting chance against the Europeans. What Hitler did to the Jews was genocide! GENOCIDE! You can't even try to say that converting the Natives and taking their land was genocide! Taking a life is far worse than anything else. The Europeans only killed the Natives that rebelled; Hitler tried to kill ALL the Jews!