As previously stated, I have no desire to make comparisons as they are two different (and unrelated) histories. I do have a rudimentary understanding of Native American Indians from all the old cowboy and Indian films; but what I was hazy on is their present day situation!
But DrMark1961 is correct in asserting that the Celts were treated as barbarically by the Romans as the Indians were by the Americans.
Prior to the rise of the Roman Empire (Italy), the Celts were warring ‘Tribes’ living in mud huts who occupied most of Europe, with primitive weapons (compared to the Romans).
The Romans called them ‘Gallli’ and the Greeks called them ‘Keltoi’; both words mean barbarians. However, one aspect of Celtic culture which I admire is that women were equal to men; something the Romans despised because under Roman Culture women were 2nd class citizens.
Over the course of several centuries the Romans wiped out the vast majority of the Celts culture across the whole of Europe, save for the north western region of France, and the extremities in the British Isles. Across the whole of Europe, the Celts who didn’t succumb to Roman Rule where killed (including woman and children), or fled.
In Britain, hundreds of thousands of Celts (including woman and children) were killed and massacred by the Romans. Countless numbers of battles raged as the Romans gradually spread their empire across Britain, halting at the border between England and Scotland because the Celt tribes in Scotland proved too much of match, even for the Romans; hence the Romans building Hadrian’s Wall between England and Scotland in 122AD.
Two of the more famous battles between the Romans and the Scottish Celts were:-
• The Battle of Mons Graupius, Scotland, in AD83; where 360 Romans were killed, and 10,000 Scots were killed, and
• The Battle of Caledonia, Scotland, in c210AD, where 50,000 Romans died, and 30,000 Scots were killed.
But the most famous battle of all in Britain was the Battle of Watling Street. Watling Street was a road built by the Romans, stretching from London (the capital of the Roman Empire in England) to the border between England and north Wales.
Under occupied Britain, the Iceni tribe had a peace treaty with Rome. The Iceni Tribe living just north of London. When the Iceni tribal leader died, under Celtic law his tribe passed to his wife (Boudicca); but because she was a woman the Roman Empire didn’t recognise her rights as tribal leader, and tried to seize her lands. Consequently she led her tribe into battle against the Romans, along with another Celtic Tribe that followed her (an estimated 230,000 warriors); and they wiped out the Roman Legion who was not prepared for the uprising. Then Boudicca and her tribe marched on London, where they ransacked it and burnt it to the ground; massacring the inhabitants of London (80,000 men, women and children).
Eventually, the Romans marched their Armies from the border with North Wales, along Watling Street back towards London, where they eventually met Boudicca and her tribes for a decisive battle; where only about 400 Romans were killed, while an estimated 80,000 Celtic warriors, along with their women and children were slaughtered. Boudicca escaped the battle, but subsequently took poison before the Romans could track her down.
Battle of Watling Street (60/61 AD) - Celtic Iceni vs Roman Empire: https://youtu.be/ydmWUfTpwSo
