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Army and the forceful action used to confine the natives, the construction on Indian land, and the massive slaughter of the buffalo which the Indians relied on in every aspect of life. The mistreatment of the Native Americans has been going on for hundreds of years, way before the Gold Rush began. The American government has taken land that they are unable to return to this day. They have deprived the plains Indians of their culture and freedom. Immigration from other countries was at its peak, but America still wasn’t able to call people, that had resided in the United States for many years, citizens. Even the Native American’s, that had lived on the continent before it was even discovered, were denied citizenship unless they were Anglo-Saxon Protestant. To this day, many look at the Indians as a joke; The Seminoles as “The Tribe that Purchased A Billion Dollar Business.” Children are being taught about friendship between the American Settlers and the Natives, they are being lied to. The upcoming generations won’t understand the horrors of unnecessary warfare against innocent people, and they will only know to take what they want, even if it isn’t rightfully theirs. America as a nation has to be stopped from draping curtains over the defeat of the plains Indians: their wiping out of an entire people, just as they did to the

During westward expansion, the Native Americans got kicked to the side. The settlers coming west often saw the Indians as a threat to them and their families. However, this was not the main reason the Indians were pushed aside. The settlers saw the Indians had fertile land and wanted it for themselves. The Indians were the opposite of what the settlers thought they were. The Indians often helped the people moving west across the plains; giving them food, supplies, and acting as guides. However, the U.S. Government did not see this side of the Indians, instead they forced the Indians onto reservations. During the time of the expansion of the United States to the present, the Native Americans went through many things so that the United States could expand; they were pushed onto reservations, and forced to give up their culture through the Ideas of Manifest Destiny and Social Darwinism.

The U.S. thought selfishly of the removal of the Natives. Though the Natives agreed, they agreed upon a movement that was to benefit them, but instead this movement dwindled both their numbers and hopes. Meanwhile, the States expanded and prospered on the Natives previously

This is the analysis of the native people who were affected by the arrival of the British. As seen in this source there is a boy dressed in all his native clothing and he is outside. Then in the next photo is the same boy, in what looks to be a suit. The boys stance is completely different in the photo before as well. I believe the creator of this photo is trying to show the difference between before the British came and changed the Indians lives and made them do the thing they wanted. This links to globalization because the British practiced there own was and are now trying to force them on different cultures around the world.

During the war, First Nations were recognized for their efforts and treated accordingly to best suit their strengths. For example, those who had experience with hunting were often given jobs such as reconnaissance scouts and snipers. Hunting backgrounds were very beneficial for First Nations compared to an average Canadian soldier, because it allowed them to adapt to their surroundings quicker and easier. However, during the war First Nations were treated as equals among the various troops.

The political and military arguments for the removal of the Cherokee Indians for Georgia were that they are not civilized in their community and the military is getting stronger. The Cherokee Indians not becoming civilized in the community demonstrate that the Indians are being forced into a plan they did not sign up for. “If they continue barbarous, they are forcibly removed: if they attempt to civilize themselves (Document F).” The community is not treating them like they should be treated, so the Indians feel that they are excluded from them that is why they are being more active. The government is trying to force the colonist and the Indians together in one place.

According to it Native Americans were less civilized than Europeans because they lived isolated in a wild land and were (mistakenly) not viewed as being agriculturalists (Mihesuah, Devon. Indians in Early American Minds.) The British looked down upon the Native Americans, seeing them as uncultured and inferior, an obstacle that needed to be either converted or removed completely in order to reach their goals. In an attempt of conversion, the Puritans established praying towns where Native Indians could relinquish their way of life and convert to Christianity ("Invasions of the Coast", 500 Nations, Episode 4.) If conversion did not work, they believed that God would want them to seize the land from the godless Natives.

Native Americans were affected negatively in the United States Western Expansion. The Americans stripped the Natives from their culture, land, and the buffalo. From all that Native Americans onced lived all over the West were now living on reservations. The Natives suffered at the Sand Creek massacre, which killed over 200 Native Americans. Also another battle that affected the Native Americans negatively was the Battle of Little Bighorn. The battle was over the Sioux’s right to Sioux land with Sitting Bull as the Sioux war chief and spiritual leader and George A. Cluster as the commander of U.S troops. It wasn’t just land that affected the Natives it was also their culture. Natives boys had their culture stripped away. There clothes,

American Indians: People indigenous to the United States of America before it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and conquered by the Europeans. During the Pre-Columbian era, The American Indians lived and prospered in peace on this land for thousands of years and formed several tribes, however, after the discovery of the new world by the Europeans, they were forced to leave their land. In response to this, many American Indians rebelled against the Europeans causing wars to outbreak among the two sides. Many tribes relocated to the west after the europeans colonized on their land.

Firstly, the Native-Americans were all marginalized by getting forced out of the land they’ve all been living on for centuries, despite the treaties with America. All the states they lived in included Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida all flourished across 125 million acres of terrain. Tons of white Americans call these Natives a “problem”. A + E Networks write, “White Americans, particularly those who lived on the western frontier, often feared and resented the Native Americans they encountered: To them, American Indians seemed to be an unfamiliar, alien people who occupied land that white settlers wanted (and believed they deserved)”(“Trail of Tears”).

The policy of government toward the Native Americans kept wavering from 1834-1934 because their “guidelines” for meant to meet whatever suited the white Americans better for the time being. The Indians were given many “privileges” but soon after they received them they were taken always. The number of Indians that were living on the reservations years down the road were decreasing at such a fast rate it was hard for them to keep up with their trie. In conclusion the way I see us Americans, we're kind of like a bully or maybe a “big brother”.

The United States perspective on the Native people has drastically changed from President to President. “George Washington originally started the ‘Indian Civilization Campaign’, which encouraged the Native people to adopt Western-European culture along with Christianity.” (Sturgis, pg 5) The United States was to recognize the Native groups as the owners of the land they inhabit, with the rights to sell or retain them. This ideology was later adopted and implemented by Thomas Jefferson who believed that it was, “established by Jus gentium for America, that a white nation settling down and declaring that such and such are their limits, makes an invasion of those limits by any other white nation an act of war, but gives no right of soil against the native possessors.” (Sturgis, pg 5)

The American government's treatment of Native Americans in the 19th century should be considered genocide. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. And what American governments were doing is literary killing innocent Native Americans which are one hundred percent genocide. They were killing a lot of Indians, but they didn’t want to kill all Indians because they needed some of them to work in the fields. There were a lot of diseases and bacteria speared around which was killing a lot of them. There were estimated about 12 million Indians and about 75-80% were killed by the strategic diseases. In 1890 the last major battle between Native American Indians and U.S. soldiers occurred. It was called the Battle of Wounded Knee and occurred near the Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Approximately three hundred Sioux Indians were slaughtered. Native Americans found themselves overwhelmed by Anglo-Americans' financial and military resources. But their response to events was neither

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

In early America, most Europeans were Christians of different denominations. To the colonists, the differences in their religion were hardly as important as the differences between native American religion and the religion of settlers. This fact coupled with the fact that Europeans wanted native lands made them a convenient enemy (Ruvolo). American Indians didn’t understand the need to convert others to different religions since none of their 600 plus tribal traditions required this. Native practices were outlawed and for almost a hundred years native children were forced to go to Christian boarding schools that were government sponsored. There, they often were abused physically, emotionally and even sometimes sexually. The justification for this behavior was: “kill the Indian, save the child” (Woodley). Tribes were subdued by a combination of disease,