Pros And Cons Of Indians

There were limitless wealth with American tribes in gold and other metals the Spanish wanted it so they created law called gold rescue. Meaning they could go to America if the king got twenty percent. The law gold rescue exploited through slavery of people in the New World. The land original believed to be an island and the natives made into slaves. When the Spanish tried to make slaves out of natives, the Mayans attacked them. Finding some natives who knew Spanish who reveled there was gold. There was a second expedition where Spaniards took friendly contact leading to receiving gifts of masks that had gold on them. This news was to King Charles about the gold and sent the masks. Herman Cortez was captain third expedition and he contributed

It is a heavy, soft metal easily molded into jewelry but hopeless for implements. Its appeal comes from three qualities. It is rare. It is remarkably inert and will combine with almost nothing around it—the source of its incorruptible image. And it is shiny.” (West. 97) I thought this was interesting because so a lot of the violence and conflicts between Native Americans and the white settlers happened because of Gold. It is hard to imagine that so many people suffered and lost their lives over the possession of something that is practically useless. Many Native American tribes were kicked off of their land because the land that they were occupying at the time was known to contain gold. And several massacres occurred because of this. Elliot West talks about one of these massacres in his book. The sand creek massacre occurred on November 29, 1864 when a seven hundred man military force from the Third Colorado regiment attacked and massacred a large number of Cheyenne Indians who ironically even had an American flag flying over their camp. Two hundred men, women, and children were killed and mutilated by the military force. Although there are other reason why this massacre happened, for example the many raids and skirmishes between Native Americans and whites at the time. But Gold was still one of the main reasons behind not only this massacre, but also other acts of violence against Native Americans. Another aspect of the book that

Prior to the American Revolution, there were inhabitants of the land, Indians, present upon the arrival of Columbus as well as years before his arrival. These natives had constructed a way of life that provided to their basic needs, all the while living in prosperity relative to their standards. Native tribes, such as the Arawaks and Pequots, lived in harmony within their environment. Before them, the Clovis also improved their lifestyle with the abundance of resources present in the Americas. The former, however, were greatly disrupted by the oppression of Spaniards who seeked a phantasmal amount of gold. The Arawaks and many other Indians were subjected to harsh treatment which included overworking, starvation, slavery, and massacres. Due

When the precious mineral gold was discovered in Indian Territory, the US government had a new perspective about the Native Americans. Even before the US government leaders had discussed about the Indian Removal Act, which became even more tempting after the gold was discovered.

to gain access to resources, such as gold, that was available in the Americas. Native people were forced to

The Indian Removal has long been a debated issue. The two sides had radically different viewpoints on the ordeal that helped shape America. The Indians, naturally, were against their removal from their homelands, and they had two major protest against their removal. The first reason was the fact that they were there first by thousands of years only for white men to invade and tell them to live somewhere else because the white men were superior to the natives. The second reason was that the U.S government kept breaking treaties and was forcing out tribes that had gone through the proper channels for their land.

The mid 1800’s bore witness to one of our nation’s greatest shames, an act nearly as terrible as that of slavery itself. There had always been tension between the native populations of the Americas and the Europeans since the very first settlers arrived, yet 1830 saw one of the worst acts perpetrated on the native populations by the newly formed United States. During the war of 1812, Andrew Jackson oversaw several defeats of Native American forces when he was General which seized hundreds of millions of acres of land, and ended the chance of a British-backed Native American confederacy in the Midwest. Later when he took the office of President, Jackson continued his mission of providing ‘national security’ to the States by pressuring congress to pass the “Indian Removal Act.”

The Washoe and Paiute tribe’s lives changed with the influx of settlers that came with the Comstock mining rush. Nevada being a desert had limited resources and the settlers came in and started using them without care. The whites cut down pine trees that were a food source to the tribes, they dug big holes while mining for minerals, and they hunted the game of the area. The use of these limited resources caused tension between the whites and the Indians and settlers.

Throughout American history there has been many instances of European settlers invading the land of the native peoples. This holds true for the state of Colorado. It appears as if the Gold Rush acts as a catalyst for this hostile relationship. Although there are many positives Colorado experienced from the gold rush, the native people experienced the downside of this historical event.

In 1799 marks the start of the North Carolina Gold Rush. twelve year old Conrad Reed found the gold in the waters of lake meadow and where he took it home and used it as a doorstop for over three years. In 1802 Conrad father decided to take the rock to a jeweler who confirmed that the rock was gold and he bought it for 3.50 and later profiting a lot of it. Reed soon realized he had been swindled he aligned himself with partners in a crude mining operation at the site where his son found it at. The men scoured the bank and sandbarr using things like picks, shovel, pans, and gold panning to separate the heavy gold particles from the lighter sand rocks. Miners that was small time farmers sifted through sand and gravel along the NC’s streams and rivers. Since mining for gold only use simple equipment, a shovel and a pan to separate the gold people from all over the state and people from close areas wanted to try their luck. Gold in California was big deal too. On January 24, 1848 James wilson Marshall a carpenter from New Jersey found flakes of gold in American River at the base of sierra Nevada. Even though Marshall was trying to keep the discovery under wraps word go out to the people. By mid-March the newspaper was reporting that a large amount of gold was being turn up at Sutter’s Mill. As the News spread that fortunes are being made in California the first migrants to arrive was the ones that was accessible by

These native peoples, first mislabeled as Indians by an explorer named Christopher Columbus, divided themselves into many different tribes, each with its own government, language, traditions and religions. Europeans, who slowly poured into the Indian's land, did not respect the Indians beliefs, interrupted their peaceful life and would do almost anything to get the land to them selves. The settlers also believed the land that both the Indians and the settlers lived on was theirs to themselves. They began to push the Native Americans off of their own land. Many of them fought back to keep their homes, some succeeded, some didn't.

Joseph Hamilton writes, “In Southern California, where my tribe calls home, disenrollment is common, in part because of big gaming revenues and internal power struggles. It is also a symptom of the breakdown of traditional tribal power structures. Simply put, some tribal leaders listen to lawyers instead of elders” (n.d.). The smaller amount of tribal members present constitutes more money for the remaining members (Stretten, 2014).

Why should Native Americans have to assimilate into the American Mainstream? Why Can’t it be the other way around? It is so easy for Americans to say “oh what you have is great, but here take this.” I think that instead of forcing our culture and religion onto people we need to consider first listening to Native Americans and learning about their culture. We need to have humility when it comes to learning about other cultures. Americans need to step out of their comfort zones and be willing to be challenged by different beliefs. Americans should embrace the different culture and make an effort to recognize it. Native Americans are humans and need to be treated as so. Instead of throwing our ways at Native Americans we should step into their shoes and ask questions to learn about them as individual people.

Carelessness, manipulation, apathy, these words convey the actions against the Navajo Nation by outside parties like mining companies. Throughout history, Native Americans have generally been taken advantage of by outsiders; and this trend is a common theme between the articles Coal Mining On Navajo Nation In Arizona Takes Heavy Toll and Navajo Nation Slams Door on Deal That Would Have Allowed Uranium Mining. The first article evaluates the effects of coal mining on the Navajo Nation. The second article gives an overview if the troubles of the Navajo due as they try to prevent uranium mining on their land. Despite the difference in how each article approaches the common theme of exploitation, both use examples of how the detrimental consequences resulting from the mining and the selfish acts of

In early 1848, cries of gold findings flooded the West. White settlers flooded the area like a hurricane in search of riches never seen before to the common man. It was the single greatest migration of people in a shortest amount of time. The gold rush was a very dark period in American history and it shouldn’t be celebrated; the Native American’s were slaughtered in American thirst for gold Explosions of violence from both natives and settlers were common in this environment of prejudice and greed. Between 1850 and 1890 eighty percent of the total number of Native Americans in California died due to murder and massacre, disease, starvation, and forced migration from their native lands. The destruction of the culture and lives of the people native to California and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Greed changed the morals and values of the miners and Americans alike in the Gold Rush. The gold rush brought riches and highlighted racism of white Americans, while systematically destroying Native Americans in that region.