Essay On The Effects Of Greed On Native Americans

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

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'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

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

Minority groups are defined as alien residents of nations who no longer have rights to their land. Ordinarily due to colonization. Minority status is the result of adverse discrimination some of the defining elements of these groups are commonly long-term occupation of land, common ancestry, traditional culture, language or formal membership. In the United States, Native Americans, also known as American Indians or just simply Indians are considered to be people whose pre-Columbian ancestors were indigenous to the lands within the nation’s modern boundaries. These people were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands and ethnic groups. Custer Died for Your Sins is a 1969, non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria. This was noted primarily for its relevance to activist organizations like the American Indian Movement. The book consists of eleven essays and is critical of aid organizations, for their efforts to so called “help” Native Americans. The author shows readers that instead of helping they were stopping the progress. Deloria 's book discussed and offered many types of solutions in helping Native Americans.

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.

Within the nineteenth century, many Americans saw Native Americans as heathens that occupied land. These people saw the land as theirs because of how they fought to become independent. They also claimed that the Native Americans did not claim land or have a concept of property. Others understood that it was wrong to take the land forcefully. These people understood the land was not rightfully theirs for the taking. It is also perceived that all Americans disliked Native Americans. When in fact there were people who sympathized the natives. They wanted to live in peace and not war. Although, they still believed Indians were below them and had ideas of reserves. Looking at history,

Throughout history Native Americans have experienced hardships, Native Americans have been run over for resources and treated unfairly. Over the years Native Americans have always been considered to be at a disadvantage when dealing with the Europeans due to their lack of communication and education. The Native Americans need to be given back if not all some of the land that they owned.