As a US citizen with Native American ancestors believe me, we are not okay with any of this. We are still fighting to get some of our original lands back to this day. If you can prove 10% Native American ancestry you can receive some benefits but it’s hard to do.

No, because we're busy working on new and interesting ways to set our country back at least 100 years in terms of rights of women and people of color. We don't have time to get all historical. Stay tuned for the turning back the calendar to 1695 as we make women get papers travel saying they aren't pregnant. I wish I was kidding.

Get angry that the red states putting out textbooks lying about how the native Americans really were super happy to be relocated from green livable lands to dead deserts and have cut out the massacres completely.

I'm from Hawaii, not a native mind you. I was born at an army hospital due to my father being stationed there. I have always thought how terrible it was that the US took Hawaii away from its people. Just because it was a strategic place for our ships. They never asked for that. The US should be ashamed of itself.

You forgot to mention the idiots that elected trump!

those aren't really secrets anymore. Doesn't make them any better though

Also 8 k er visits and we don't actually elect our president. Roll back on womens rights . Many states a rapist can get parental rights. Child marriages are not outlawed in most states with parental permission. Gun deaths at school and on the road

We all know about that. It's supposed to be little known facts

American here. Yes, too many to count. However, the link was for facts that people don't know. I think everyone in the world but the majority of Americans know what our country has done. We have our heads in the sand and our news puts rose colored glasses on what we do abroad. I only learned a lot of what was done when I starting back packing around the world. Was shocked to read some children's history books from other countries.

We really effed over Hawaii. They were a sovereign nation but we needed their islands as a stop along the way to Asia. We rewarded their hospitality by annexing them and deposing their leadership.

My country has so many things wrong with it, it's embarrassing

These were never things that "not many people know". 'Most everyone knows about it. The only people that tried to play it down were Americans.

Forced sterilizations, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Btw: Forced sterilizations were still happening in southern states as late as the early 2000s with no accountability. Doctors were performing unnecessary C-Sections on pregnant women, then giving them tubal ligations without ever saying a word or charting the procedures. These are the same southern states that are currently attempting to make abortions illegal.

It's an holocaust of it's own. Luckily the nazis didn't succed with the final goals of their genocide. The US did.

American been good for that but a lot of people through history have done it to in different countries it all about power. It is sad indeed. So mean native American indigenous people where whipped from this earth it was wrong. My mother was 1/2 native American. When I think about it makes me sad all the movies don't do it justice. It just so sad.

Everyone in the world already knows what atrocious dumbasses we are - this thread is about "little known" facts.

Those are all really well known things, though.I thought this thread was supposed to be about things most people don't know about. Here's a few off the top of my head that people can Google if they like: The Wilmington Coup, Mexican school segregation, The Ludlow Massacre, Blair Mountain. I was going to add the Tulsa massacre, but that one has gotten more press lately since its centennial was last year, but before that I don't thin many Americans had heard of it.

Another one of the worst things a lot of people seem to forget is that the USA granted immunity to the people involved with the experiments in Unit 731, in return for the results of the expirments performed there... which if you ask me, is just horrific. :/

Girl... we need a whole damn list for the US n the UK....

Look up Puerto Rico and birth control

The article is about a country's dark facts that many people don't know about ... who doesn't know about these USA facts??

I just recently watched “Te Ata” on Netflix and I didn’t even know that as late as the early 1900s indigenous people were still being banned from performing any religious ceremonies or making/selling native wares, even on land they owned. Any cultural practices were made illegal in many states. It made me think how a lot of European settlers came here to escape religious persecution and even added freedom of religion to the constitution, yet they robbed indigenous people of their religions for centuries. The atrocities natives experienced are beyond horrific and inhumane - it was genocide on every level.

As far as I know, the U.S. is the only nation that has not issued a public apology for what was done to the indigenous people. The last 2 were Canada and Australia.

While the US has committed countless cruelties in its 250 years, most of that first part was done by European invaders before the US existed. It is estimated that disease introduced through the arrival of Spanish, French, Portuguese, and British colonies had wiped out 90% of the indigenous population in the Americas within 150 years of Columbus' arrival. As for the rest, despite attempts by conservatives to eliminate educating the future generations about it, it's not much of a secret that my country has committed some horrible things and continues to do so.

The list is too long for USA and everyone knows most of it. At least what's been revealed, would like to know what hasn't....

Okay, but I don't think the smallpox thing was intentional, also, wasn't that before the U.S.A. became a country? Anyhow, I think that not a lot of people commented because a LOT of people already know. We've done quite a bit.

Not sure there any dark facts that aren't already known.