Separation Of Indians

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.

During Westward Expansion, white settlers saw the Indians as a hindrance to civilization. Therefore the mindset of settlers were to convert Native Americans into white culture. To begin assimilating, the government should, “cease to recognize the Indians as political bodies,” adult male Indians should become a citizen to the government, Indian children shall be taken away and “be trained in industrial schools,” and Indians should be, “placed in the same position before the law.” Assimilating Indians wasn’t a simple teaching of a new culture instead, it was brutal. The boarding schools were merciless towards the Indians, mainly because they wanted to force Indians to drop their culture. Native Americans were obligated to change and lost their

The treatment of Indians by the French in Canada and English in Massachusetts was dramatic. The French had proceeded there way to North America and arrived in the 1500’s and was interested in establishing trading posts. There were settlements on St. Lawrence River that came to the point as a serving (as a base from which to invade and conquer the kingdom of Saguenay). The trade between the French and Indians was a development from these enterprises in trading military forts. There were many items that were traded such as beaver pelts, furs, textile, and metal that had attractions for both trading partners. The indigenous they interact with Huron in British because French settlements aren’t big. The hurons get upset with French because Jesuits try to convert them to Catholicism. The Hurons initially tolerate these conversions efforts, but grow to resent them. The hurons are exposed to disease that kills many of them. The French don’t provide adequate protection against the Iroquois. Among the disease victims were chefs, clan leaders, wise elders, and skilled craftspeople.” The Iroquois attack the Hurons and destroy their capital. The English desire for land created an antagonistic relationship with Wampanoag. The Puritans and the religious motivations for Plymouth are important. The interaction with Wampanoag the English wanted power and land. The 1621 treaty with the Wampanoag shows this desire for both. The Wampanoag see the British as

Throughout the 1830s the U.S government decided that they were going to remove the Indians from the Southeast by creating a treaty or by forcing them out. Not only was the government kicking out the Cherokee from Georgia but as well as the Choctaw south of Alabama, Chickasaw north of them, and the Creek Indians in central Georgia and Alabama. Major Ridge, his son John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot all leaders of the Treaty Party of the Cherokee nation; told the Indians to listen to the government and move west and rebuild their nation. John Ross and other Indians who thought otherwise decided to stay in Georgia at all costs.

During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The proponents of removal including President Jackson believed it was in the best interest of the native people to be relocated west of the Mississippi. The debate for Indian removal included several arguments to justify the government’s actions.

Two out of three people are discriminated everyday. “Giving someone equal rights does not infringe or take away rights from them, it just makes it illegal to enforce your prejudice and hate.” British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” He also said, “All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” During the Cherokee Indian Removal, the Cherokee Indians were forced to be removed by the U.S. troops because of discovery of gold leading them to be removed, and discrimination towards the Cherokees.

The Indian Removal act is an act that allows the president of the United States to remove Indians from their land because the United States think that it is “their land”. It consists of appraisals and money being paid forward for the land, like what is now known as eminent domain. However, not everyone seemed to be happy with this act, as some tribes, particularly the Cherokee tribe, resisted this act. In the “Indian Removal Packet”, the Cherokee Indians wrote an essay explaining why they should not be required to move, in regards to the laws that they were following and also because they would be going into unknown territory. They believed that they have the right to remain in the land that they were in at the time and that taking their land away from them is considered “robbery” of their land. The Cherokee Tribe ends with quoting the golden rule, most likely as in asking how the United States would feel if the roles of this act was reversed on them. This file then goes on to the opinion of how Andrew Jackson felt regarding this act. For him, he believed that this act was a perfect way for the United States to preserve their own country and to dodge any rejections from

The 1800’s was a time of rapid growth in the United States as settlers started moving farther west across the continent. With a desire for more prime land to grow cotton, settlers urged the American government to acquire more territory inhabited by American Native tribes. To appease the desires of the settlers, the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830. This law affected many tribes living in the eastern part of the country that agreed to move to unsettled parts of the country to the west and moved peacefully without any resistance. The effect, however, was much more devastating for tribes that refused to leave their homelands and resulted in the deaths of thousands that were driven west by force. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is just

The author believes the Indian New Deal will provide the Indians with new found benefits, many of which had been taken away from them by the government. The greatest benefit that the Indian New Deal would bring is the restoration of land. The Indians have been removed from their homes without a real excuse, and having their land back would be great. The New Deal would also prohibit the selling of land, making “Indian-owned land into tribal or community ownership”. With their land back the Indians would also free themselves from the suppression of their religious and social customs. This would all result in the benefit of self-government for the Indians with federal supervision, and if they prove being capable of self-government it could lead advancements in citizenship and their rights.

The Indian Act was first proposed in 1876. The Indian Act was mainly used as a way for the federal government to control aspects of Native American lives. During the 1880’s the federal government told Indian families that if they wanted their children to have an education, it was to be done under them. These institutions would be known as Residential Schools. Residential Schools were not good for the Native Americans due to the education being taught was there to “take away” the Indian within the children, in other words, to make them act like they are not Indian.

In my opinion I think that the Cherokee should move because of the threat from the U.S.invader and the leader of white people already signed the Indian removal law.

Beginning in 1789 with George Washington, the Indians living next to the American people forced federal Indian policies to be created, which ranged from coexistence to removal. These policies under the seven different presidents coincided in ways regarding expansion and removal, but also changed in ways regarding American interaction, civilization, and removal tactics of the Indians. Despite the consistent similarities in federal Indian policies during the years between the Washington and Jackson Administrations, the time frame ultimately led to major evolvement and transformations in viewpoints, treatments, and actions.

Upon the start of the Indian removal act, America dipped into a dark point in our history. With it’s harsh brutality and forceful nature, we see xenophobia plaque the minds of the Americans. The removal of Native Americans from their homelands was a denial of basic human rights, it forced natives off their land and exposed them to terrible conditions during the relocation process.

Throughout history, the Native people of America have repeatedly experienced hardships which led to the deterioration of their culture. In Georgia in the year 1802, the Cherokees were involved in a conflict with the settlers of the land due to the Georgians wanting to expand and longing to have the land to themselves. This brutality and greed then led to the Indian removal from this land. Within these points in history that natives are pushed out of Georgia was led by political and social acts ranging from laws and acts being passed along with whites invading the Cherokees land.

In the early years, George Washington believed that the best way to solve the “Indian Problem” was to simply “civilize” the Native Americans. The Goal was to convert them to Christianity, learn to speak and read English and adopt European-style economic practices like Individual ownership of land and other property. Some of the Tribes embraced these customs and become known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”. (www.history.com)