Native Americans Deserve Fairness And Respect

You won't believe how and where the native americans live. I believe the native american people deserve their land back. My reason is that they live in poor conditions, live in the middle of nowhere and they have had theft on their land. Also their families have failed and their societies

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.

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

Since the very first contact, the Native Americans have been treated as subordinates, being mistreated, shamed, embarrassed, and oppressed by white settlers. After the Revolutionary War in the late 1700’s, matters only got worse for the Native Americans. Population was skyrocketing due to a great deal of immigration of white settlers in the early to mid 1800’s, and there wasn’t enough space for everyone. With this came expansion, and to reach the goals they had set out for it, the Native Americans had to go. A prime example of this is shown in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” where in chapter seven he talks about the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands, carelessness and failure by the American government to protect, and multiple slaughters carried out by the American military on the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, Sac and Fox, and the Seminole tribes. Closely related is “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee,” written by Dee Brown, his writings from chapter thirteen focus on the Nez Perces tribe that resided in Oregon, and their attempt at a journey in Canada, and other western Indian tribes’ affairs. To go along with Zinn and Brown, is Alan Brinkley’s “American History,” which posed an unbiased view of what modern day textbooks are informing students across the nation about what happened to the Native Americans. An article titled “The North American Indian Holocaust,” written by

The handling of human remains and sacred sites of prehistoric people still remains as a hunge controversial subject in the field of Anthropology. Archaeology are bounded by all kinds of laws and regulations, guidelines are strictly followed by archaeologists to ensure a legal, ethical, and professional conduct of archaeological research. Complex ethical issues arise when an archaeologist tries to excavate a prehistoric site. Archaeologists must be careful when handling Native American remains as they might violate laws if they mishandle the human remains. All these laws existed to protect the basic human rights for the Native Americans. In this paper, perspectives from both Native Americans and archaeological researchers would be discussed.

In the seventeenth century, European people begin to settle in the North America. They started to invest in the natural resources in the eastern America using the best resource they found in the land, captured Native Indians. Many poor European people migrated to North America for opportunity to earn money and rise of their social status. They came to the America as indentured or contracted servants because the passage aboard was too expensive for them. By the time many Native Indians and indentured servants die from the hard labor and low morality rate, masters of the plantation purchased more slaves from Africa to profit themselves. The “Virginia Servant and Slave Laws” reveal the dominant efforts of masters to profit from their servants and slaves by passing laws to treat slaves as their properties and to control servants and slaves by suppressing the rebellion using brutal force. Masters and rich planters sought to earn more profit from mercantilism, or trade, economic system by violating the civil rights of Native Indian, African, and poor European people and this thought and practice still exist today as a form of racism and segregation in America.

Since the arrival of the Europeans in 1492 the Native American has systematically been dehumanized, decivilized and redefined into terms that typify a subordinate or minority role, restricted life opportunities persist today as a result.

Having a tumultuous background, the Native American history in itself should be respected, but there seems to be a nuisance doing so. In the 1830’s, after removal policy failed to prevail, “not only did individual Indians remain, but native communities also struggled over the next century and a half to carve out a place for themselves in the South"(Perdue 3). Native American’s were challenged to find a place in the idealistic society, but their ritualistic culture was not fit for the United States. Further on, they dealt with poverty, discrimination, and violence against their community.

Lesson 1 1. These neighborhoods called barrios had Spanish- speaking businesses and Spanish- language newspapers, and they helped keep Hispanic culture and religious traditions alive. 2. The discovery of silver and gold led people to the west. 3. When people heard about minerals in the west cities that had only a couple hundred went to thousands California’s population also grew from 14000 to 100000. 4. It was a cheap food source during that time. 5. The new settlers wanted only for themselves that is why they kept pushing the Hispanics out in order to have a sole ownership and advantage from the minerals from the area. Most of the Hispanics has been thrown by the new settlers out of their homes and lands. The Hispanics in Mexico were the

Being ignored is a sad thing in general, and it gets more sad when It is your own government who is doing the ignoring. Whether it has to do with immigrants or even these native americans, us “minorities” have been grown Accustomed to being ignored. I feel that this ideology of the past and when I read that native americans in the present day were chosen over some white folks in a big city, I felt outraged. Some may argue that this is not racism but it clearly is. The sad thing is that Native Americans are being told they are trespassing in their own land.

I agree that Native Americans should deserve much better. Not only did the U.S government took away their lands, they also took away their sources of food. In return, the U.S government award them with processed food, which made their health deteriorate. However, poor health is the only risk factor for their increase rate of diseases , poverty also plays a big role. Low income individuals are twice as likely to be diabetic than high income individuals.

Violence against women didn’t start last year, ut for centries even with the Native Americans. We always assume that Native Americans were always friendly to each other, but they sometimes fought with each other for land and resources. Through Women’s Eyes mentions about that women and their children were more affected than anyone else in the tribe if they are captured. If the tribe is captured, the women and their children became slaves and forced into accepting their capture’s culture. No written documents from the Native American women to prove this, but we have written documents from the Europeans, who were eyewitness to this. Seeing this, the Europeans began to genrate the idea of capturing and owning slaves for themselves and a

Today all three Federally Recognized tribes are viewed as separate Nations by the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) but in reality they are related by Family ties that go back thousands of years. Each chief from each tribe all meet in Cherokee North Carolina to re-light a flame that once burned in their mother Town Kuwaiti, but that was a historic moment and it’s going to take them some time to repair the bond they once had that was broken throughout times of their ancestors. Some of the Cherokee people went to the white house and told the president that not all Cherokee people wanted to pursue what was deemed a “civilized” life. Then the delegation requested the President divide the upper towns, whose people wanted to establish a regular government, from the lower towns who wanted to continue living traditionally.

Over centuries, since the arrival of the european settlers, the U.S army was given an operation to kill the buffalo’s in order to lead Native Americans into reservations, they took rights and land which is considered invasion of colonization. The treatment, the killings, the hazing of buffalo need to be recognized and stopped as well as, the treatment toward Native Americans that both truly relate. Buffalo killings bring distress to Native Americans, but also bring us closer than ever from the historical trauma that we have overcome and still facing.

There were two key reasons that led to the mistreatment of Native Americans- their differences and their small population. The Native people had different lifestyles than the white people. They spoke differently, ate differently, and had different jobs. Not only did they live differently, they looked different. They had dark skin and dressed in unusual clothes. Because of this, white people saw them as animals and saw it fit to treat them that way. Their population also led to their mistreatment. Because they were such a small group of people, they were easily thrown around and nobody cared about them. Being a minority, they would never have enough support to get their way. To conclude, because of their differences and smaller size, African