Assimilation Native Americans

Document 2 displays the Sand Creek Massacre, where a Colorado militia attacked a Cheyenne village. Around 200 men, women, and children were killed. To stop the fighting, the US government gave tribes a big reservation in South Dakota and promised not to bother the Native Americans. Then, gold was found on the reservation. Many Americans went to the reservation to try and get rich. The Sioux tribe was living where the gold was found, and they weren’t happy about these additional visitors. Document 4 tells about the responses from the chiefs of two tribes, Chief Joseph and Chief Sitting Bull. They speak about how the Americans came in and forced the tribes to move because they wanted the land. The Native Americans are upset because reservations were made for the tribes, but eventually the Natives are forced off those lands too. Native Americans and the US army met at the Battle of Little Bighorn, where the US army was completely obliterated. The US army was forced to take the Native Americans seriously after this major loss. In document 6, assimilation is demonstrated. This most likely would’ve happened to the Native Americans if the US forced them to become citizens of the country. Assimilation is the process of becoming socially and psychologically like another group of people. The Natives would most likely have to dress like Americans, and basically give up their

American Indians underwent several different eras of federal policy, each one varying on where the government stands when dealing with American Indians. One era of federal policy in particular is referred to as the “Allotment and Assimilation Era”, characterized by the policies regarding allotment of land and the process adapting American Indian children to an Anglo-Saxon society. While both aspects of the Allotment and Assimilation Era had a tremendous effect on American Indians, forcibly enrolling American Indian children into boarding schools, in an effort to “civilise” them, not only had a greater impact on tribal communities at the time, but it also had the most significant lasting legacy.

government, thought Westward Expansion would positively impact Native Americans. President Andrew Jackson felt that Indian Removal would protect the Native Americans and give them more freedom. He also thought that, eventually, the influence of European Americans would guide them to become a more “interesting, civilized, and Christian community” (Doc 9). Additionally, government believed that boarding schools would be very beneficial for children, teaching them valuable skills, and helping them become more civilized “ladies and gentlemen” (Doc 8). However, these people were blinded to the impact it had on the lives of Native American by their own desire for land and power. The mass slaughter of buffalo robbed the Native Americans of their most valuable resource and the source of all their daily necessities. Forced assimilation killed Native American culture and identity, and uprooted their lifestyles. By taking away and selling Native Americans’ land, the U.S. government was constantly driving Native Americans of their homes, onto undeveloped, cramped land, making it nearly impossible for them to sustain themselves and their way of life. How is someone positively affected by having their means of survival, identity, and home taken

For almost as long as European settlers have interacted with the native peoples of the Americas, they have had a notion: what many call ‘assimilation’. To Europeans, assimilation of native peoples meant for their culture, which they believed to be superior, to be accepted over time by the natives. And as they grew more and more European in language, religion, customs, organization, morals, and behavior, they would slowly shed off all of their old culture which the European culture would be replacing. The Europeans believed this process was for the best for the natives and that they would be happier living ‘civilized’ lives as opposed to practicing their own traditions.

During Westward Expansion, white settlers saw the Indians as a hindrance to civilization. Therefore the mindset of settlers were to convert Native Americans into white culture. To begin assimilating, the government should, “cease to recognize the Indians as political bodies,” adult male Indians should become a citizen to the government, Indian children shall be taken away and “be trained in industrial schools,” and Indians should be, “placed in the same position before the law.” Assimilating Indians wasn’t a simple teaching of a new culture instead, it was brutal. The boarding schools were merciless towards the Indians, mainly because they wanted to force Indians to drop their culture. Native Americans were obligated to change and lost their

It is expected that ultimately there will be a loss of ethnic distinctiveness for immigrants in the U.S., meaning the lack of attachment to the country of origin. (Golash-Boza, 2006) It is argued that all ethnic distinctiveness will no longer exist by the seventh or eighth generations. Before exploring the influence of foreign born vs. U.S. born parents on their children’s cultural assimilation; the different theories of assimilation will be explored. The idea of Assimilation came about in the early 20th century. (Golash-Boza, 2006) Assimilation is surrounded by two theories, the first that all immigrants will assimilate sooner or later and that the generational status of the individual is one of the main factors in determining the

When the Europeans and Spaniards first “discovered” North America all was well. The Indians at first were truly intrigued with the white man as the brought all sorts of new stuff to trade. Matter a fact the first set of settlers would not been able to survive without the help of the Indians. Unfortunately, the settlers had very little respect for the land and resources. The Europeans then starting using violence to get what they wanted and as the number of settlers increased the Indians new that they were in over their heads. With all the new settlers came diseases such as small pox and measles. These diseases hurt the Indian tribes severely, and with the ignorance the settler’s wars began; the Indian Wars, the Indian Removal Act, Wounded knee, and the trail of tears are only a few of the many. The U.S. Government took it upon themselves to start relocation programs, with these programs the Indians were ripped from their homes, required to speak only the language of the settlers and robbed of their customs. The children of the tribes were taken away and sent to special schools to Americanize them and forget about their heritage. Then in the late 1800’s the government started

Assimilation policy proposed that ‘full blood’ Indigenous people should be allowed to ‘die out’ through a process of natural elimination, while ‘half-castes’ were encouraged to assimilate into the white community. This approach was founded on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority. It was assumed that Indigenous people would enjoy the same quality of life as white Australians if they adopted European customs and everyone would live together as a single white Australian community. In actuality, assimilation policy further destroyed Indigenous identity, culture and families. It also was justification for the removal of Indigenous children from their

Native Americans have had a long history of resistance to the social and cultural assimilation into white culture. By employing various creative strategies, Native Americans have attempted to cope with the changes stemming from the European colonial movement into the Americas. There are fundamental differences in world views and cultural and social orders between Indians and Europeans, which contributed to conservatism in Native American cultures. In this paper, two aspects of such cultural and institutional differences of Native American societies will be examined: holistic Native American beliefs versus dualistic world views and harmony versus domination. These two aspects are important in terms of explaining changes (or lack thereof) in

Due to the greed of the Americans, Indians were forced off of their lands by the Indian Removal Act of May 28, 1830 signed by President at the time, Andrew Jackson.1 The government developed a sly process for the exclusion of the Indians to move them out of the way of the “progress” of the U.S. It began with Coexistence (1789-1828) then moved into Removal and Reservations (1829-1886), then took a shift into Assimilation (1887-1932), then Reorganization (1932-1942), then

You made a good post. I agree with you that the House concurrent resolution 108 was the efforts of assimilation and laid the foundation for the termination. I think the losses of the Indians from this act were more than the gains. Many of their tribal rights were removed and their former land was not controlled by themselves. Under the Public Law in 1953, the federal government could lend the hand of the Indians to control over these tribes, which reduced their energy spending on the tribal issues. It was negative for the Indians because the federal government still tried to assimilate the Indians and force them to change their lifestyles.

Many Native Americans opposed the termination and assimilation policies for several reasons. One reason was the fear of a return of the land grab of past and Native Americans forced migration. In New Mexico and Arizona Native American did not have the right to vote, which created a political outcry due to the United States stand on democracy world-wide.

The US government adopted a number of policies towards the American Indians. These policies had some bad impacts on them. Some of the policies were a form of war against their culture, traditions, and way of life. Some of the policies were meant to alienate them. The policy of Assimilation, which is to make the American Indians act and live the way the whites live, was there, immediately after the formation of European settlements in America. The European

I do not think the U.S. government pursued the correct policy in regard to the Native Americans, and they realized it too. At one point the congressmen, and even the president, realized how badly they treated the Natives and quickly tried to correct themselves, although that didn't work out well either. In an attempt to help they tried to "Americanize" them, which was essentially assimilation, which is a whole other racist issue. They passed the Dawes Act and abolished Native tribes, which they had absolutely no right to do, and taught their children that they were barbarians. What they did to the Natives was 100% genocide, they were very content with killing all of them if it meant that they could take their land. It was so sick that

The authors’ main argument that is presented in the eight chapter of their book is one that is quite moving. They present that the chapter will consist and examine how particular cultural behaviors and practices are different from other ethnic groups as well as the native born individuals. Primarily, the authors argue that assimilation cannot be measured in order to prove that ethnic groups have assimilated to American society. The authors question and analyze three different aspects that there chapter is based upon, which are language, transnationalism, and religion. Under these certain areas that are scrutinized, the authors contribute to how these aspects can effect the second generation. In the language section they argue that if the second