I am of the opinion that the Native Americans were treated badly by the Americans who came and took over their land. The Indians fought back because what they owned and the lifestyle that they were accustomed to were being stripped from them. Furthermore, I believe the assimilation forced upon the Native Americans fueled an even greater hatred for the white man. Instead of making quality relationships with them, the Americans forced the Natives to become like them or else face war. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of greed rearing its ugly head in the history of our country. Religious white people tried to force the Indians (by withholding food) to give up their religious beliefs and integrate into the white society (Kennedy & …show more content…
Greed and covetousness burned in the hearts of many Americans, causing them to see the Native Americans not as people, but as mere obstacles in the way of progress and riches. All people are valuable in the eyes of God and we should never allow material possessions to blind us to this reality. John 3:16 tells us that, “God so loved the World that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (ESV). Additionally, when Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment is, “He replied “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:30-31). I do not feel that love was the motive of those who destroyed the lives and ways of the Native Americans. I love America, however, I think the way the Americans treated the Native Americans was not honoring to God, nor did their actions show God’s love in any
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
For generations the Native Americans were forcefully removed from their lands, enslaved and murdered. The harsh treatment of Native Americans by both the Europeans and the Americans led to a change in how the native people acted and to their subsequent distrust of the white races.
The radical changes as disease, war, trade or new religions in New England and Virginia during the 17th century affect the long-term relationship of Native Americans to settlers because the Europeans started to take advantage of the natives and their resources. They mistreated the Indians, and they wanted their land to settle in even though it wasn’t rightfully theirs to take in the first place. The settlers brought diseases such as smallpox and the measles. The Indians were scared and wondering why they were suddenly getting sick and dying. They had absolutely no idea that it was the settlers that was bringing these unfamiliar and incurable diseases. When they found out, they blamed it on them and got angry. The Indians were also cheated and
The Native Americans have been cheated, experienced unfair and bloody hardships along with broken treaties, been judged for their
When the Europeans arrived in the Americas they were looking for riches, spices, and new trade routes to India. When they found this new world and the Native Americans that lived there, they deliberately mistreated them. Looked at as obstructions, the Natives were driven from their land and homes and pushed west. Europeans that encountered the Native Americans had different ideas about them depending on their political and religious beliefs but none were positive. Those ideas ranged from pity for them as non-Christians to be converted (Doc. A2) and treated as children to a lower status of human to be taken advantage of for profits. The Natives were forced to mine precious metals, and farm sugar cane and tobacco. They were not viewed or treated as equal persons. They were considered part of the wild land to be conquered, enslaved, killed, and beaten into cooperation.
In 1986, the 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Warren Burger, informed President Ronald Reagan of his decision to retire. Reagan’s first duty was to fill the role of Chief Justice, which he did by appointing justice William Rehnquist to Chief Justice. Now Reagan was tasked with nominating a justice to replace Burger’s seat in the Supreme Court. According to those who were involved in the decision, it came down to Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia. With Warren Burger leaving the Court, it meant that the Court would be balanced with four conservative justices and four liberal justices. This placed even more importance on Reagan’s decision to nominate a justice who would often times be making the deciding vote. Reagan needed to nominate a
Europeans had only brought problems to Native Americans The greed of the Europeans has ruined the native american culture, The natives have lost all their principals and costums. Native Americans were slowly obliterated from their lands throughout 1500 to 1800. The English, French and Spanish used a method of mass murder called extermination. They used whatever it took to exterminate the most Native Americans possible in a small amount of time.
Throughout the course of the United States’ history we often overlook the hardships and impacts of the undesirable people. These include the Native Americans, slaves, indentured servants, and immigrants that have helped shape the history of the United States of America. Native Americans have been mistreated and oppressed by many Europeans since America had first been found. Natives were often seen as barbaric and inhumane creatures who acted uncivilized and animalistic. Many Europeans believed that natives were illiterate, uneducated, and unholy.
I took the Native American IAT and the Age IAT tests. I thought my results would be that I would have some association with Native Americans because I have Native American in my ancestry. My results were that I had little or no association between Native American and American with Foreign and American. I am not sure if I agree with them or not and that maybe from family history. I have no ideal if this method is truly effective and I would try to make sure that I am being considerate about other people's culture when teaching students and interacting with their families. I took away from this test that I learned new things about my thought process.
I'm sure you have heard countless accounts of how we mistreated the Indians spread out on the frontier and went behind their backs countless times, so I won't make you go to the trouble of reading the whole entire agonizingly boring retelling of events again. Basically, we promised the Native American tribes protected plots of land out west if they willingly move out there. Pioneers massacred the Natives who refused to trudge for thousands of miles just for a land alien to them. Indians who did migrate westward died countless diseases like smallpox, cholera, dysentery and things like starvation and eloped fatigue. America didn't actually give any land to the Native Americans who made the trip westwards to their guaranteed land. It doesn't take a genius to decipher from the reading that pioneers abhorrently disrespected the people who helped our ancestors make it through their first winter in North America, who helped us grow crops efficiently, the people we originally befriended and coexisted with for a long
After reading “A Journey Through Texas,” I feel that Native Americans reacted out of fear. Some conspiracies say natives rebelled and killed their captors. During the story, Native Americans did everything asked. De Vaca says, after talking to a native, “They entreated us not to be angry any longer, because, even if it was their death, they would take us where we chose.”(30) Opposing mindsets of my opinion believe that natives have brutal mindsets, are cruel rebels, and that hatred is their way of life.
The Native American people as a whole suffered tremendously during colonialism. When European settler acquisitioned the
Throughout history, Native Americans have been victimized by Americans and the American Government. Native Americans were here long before the English settlers found and migrated to America. They tried to buy the land from Native Americans, and money was not important to them so they refused. Over time this costed a lot of Native American lives and most of their land was taken from them. Native Americans were immensely mistreated in the 1900’s by white Americans and are still being wronged by deceiving history in textbooks and other learning aid.
Current American society is constantly affected by events from the past, but sometimes what society thinks is in the past is not so far behind. The way Native Americans were treated historically continually plays a part in current American society. Due to the racism and stereotypes carried throughout society the Native American cultural circle is constantly under fire.
“How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people?” said by the Seneca Chief, Red Jacket. The faith in the colonist was lost, but what occurred between these groups that led to their differences? The history between the early Europeans and the Native Americans had different conflicts as in religion, manners, way of life, and inequality.