Thanks To Native Americans: The Indian New Deal

When Andrew Jackson was leading the native Americans to their new home. The native Americans didn’t want to move to their new home because they had memories left behind and because they have been living there for a long time that they didn’t want to leave there scorcher behind. When Andrew Jackson was helping them move he was doing it for good not bad. If the natives Americans didn’t leave the would have to obey the laws and they don’t want that.

After the Trail of Tears, reuniting the split factions of the Eastern Cherokee became one of the most important aims of the tribe. John Ross and Sequyoah, two principal chiefs of the split Eastern tribe, came together and reunited. They then worked together to try and rebuild their society in Oklahoma Territory. When the Civil War broke out, many Cherokee sided with the Confederacy because they identified as southerners and some owned slaves. There was a small pro-Union faction, which furthur split the community, so most of the post-Trail or Tears goals could be summed up as trying to rebuild tribal

Beginning in the Sixteenth Century, Europeans sought to escape religious and class persecution by engaging on a journey to the New World. However, they were unaware that this “New World” was already inhabited by many groups of Native Americans, who had been established on the continent for thousands of years. At first, the two ethnic groups lived in relative peace. The colonists of Jamestown survived due to Powhatan’s tribe teaching them how to cultivate the land. However, things took a twisted turn as the colonists grew greedy. Due to cultural differences, there was stark tension between the Indian groups and European settlers in New England prior to 1750, which tremendously influenced early political means, social life, and the economy.

I agree that the treatment of American Indians during the mid-1800s could be considered as ethnic cleansing. The value of land increased dramatically when cotton became the major product in the south. Many whites wanted to push west and acquired the Native American’s fertile soil. Still, many Native Americans had remained in the South. They adopted white Americans culture, attended to school, owned private property and formed constitutional, republican governments. Most southern whites, however, denounced the Indian civilization as a shame and believed the Indians could never be civilized. Although federal policy had been to respect the rights of American Indian to inhabit the land, President Andrew Jackson abandoned this policy and adopted

During the years between 1607 and 1611, many colonists died due to the following: Enviromental issues, settlers skills, and the Relationships with the Indians. In those years many colonists were traveling and seeking me lives but little did they know, their skill level was very low. As a result, many of the colonists ended up dead. Most of the colonists that traveled were gentlemen. However, these are not the nice men you're thinking of. These gentlemen are men that are usually to used to be useful or doing any work at all. Other than mainly gentlemen, the only colonists they brought were barrel makers, druggists, and people with jobs other than FARMING! Now let's dig deeper into why so many colonists died between the years of 1607 and 1611.

The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934, otherwise known as the Wheeler-Howard Act or the Indian New Deal, was a United States federal legislation that attempted to reverse traditional U.S policy, which typically forced Indian assimilation into american culture and regularly took Indian reservation land. It was a radical act in its time and was introduced into congress by John Collier, who was head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The IRA’s main goal was to provide a means for Native Americans to establish sovereignty and self-government, reduce the amount of land loss by reservations, and to build economic self sufficiencies for these tribes. The act also ended the Allotment System and provided loans for Indians to pursue higher education and farm their lands. Whether or not the act was considered a longstanding success is heavily debated, by historians and Native Americans leaders alike.

Propaganda has been used overtime to manipulate people or nation into believing certain ideas. The Indian Removal Act is a historical example of propaganda manipulating people. The Indian Removal Act was to get the Native Americans living in the southeast side of the Mississippi River to move to the west side of it. Congressed passed the Indian Removal Act so that the Europeans living on the west side of the Mississippi River would get to live on the southeast and the Native Americans would go live on the west. The southeast side of the Mississippi River had rich soil that made farming easier, which allowed living there to also be easier. The west side of Mississippi River was the opposite of the southeast. The west side was dry and unsuitable

The American Revolution had lasting effects across the nation. Many different groups would be substantially affected by these changes in either negative but primarily positive changes.

Some wanted to fight to keep the land that their family has lived on forever.

The lecture covered the basis on Indians’ treaties, the government, and how both (the treaties and government) clashed with the Native’s culture. The guest speaker was Gillian Allen, a lawyer, who worked on First Nations treaty-related affairs in Canada and an Aboriginal. She presented a lecture on Indian Treaty Rights in Canada and the U.S. During the lecture, I learned interesting information about the Natives and recognized some aspects of cognitive psychology. The aspects of cognitive psychology that were present were priming, categories of knowledge, and surface features/deep structure.

The ICRA helped create a conversation about the need for protection of individual rights not only from the federal government, but also tribal councils. This act also facilitated a bigger discussion that Native Americans were going to endure and combat any assimilation policies that the federal government purposed. During the nineteenth century, there was a heavy push by reformers to persuade the federal government to take an even more aggressive approach toward assimilating Native Americans. A prominent policy during the nineteenth century was allotment. At a basic level, allotment attempted to force Native Americans to assimilate. At the very foundation of allotment was the Dawes act which had an underlying assumption that Native Americans wanted to be farmers amongst other jobs that would help compulsorily usher Natives into the larger American society. Francis Prucha, for example, author of the book Americanizing the American Indians, takes a great deal of time in talking about the attitudes towards Indians and federal policy prior to the twentieth century. He relies heavily on the evidences of speeches, articles, and pamphlets written by reformers who worked diligently to sway federal Indian policy to forcibly assimilate Indians. In his book, Prucha submits that reformers had three main goals. The first goal focused on using allotment to break

The fascination with Native Americans has been a constant with outsiders since explorers first “discovered” the New World. The biggest surge in this fascination came in the mid-19th century when the Indian Wars were starting to come to an end and the belief that Native Americans were disappearing, walking into the sunset never to be seen again. This led to an increase in the collecting of anything Native American, from artifacts to stories to portraits. The inevitable outcome of this was that Native Americans, who were never considered very highly to begin with, where now moved into a category of scientific interest to be study. This scientific interest in Native Americans is what many museums and other institutions based their collections and exhibits on and is one of the issues that many Native Americans have with how both their people and their culture were, and to some extent still are, represented in these places.

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population” (Martin Luther King Jr.). It is said, that starting at a lofty point and from their going down in direction is considered a downfall (Encyclopedia Britannica). The point of lofty position in a sense of life, is one where there is peace and security from being harmed. The downfall is when this

The American Indian Movement is an organization in the United States that attempts to bring attention to the injustice and unfair treatment of American Indians. Aside from that, the AIM works for better protection and care for the American Indians and their families. They have been changing the American perception of Indians since the late 1960’s, as well as aiding our awareness of their existence.

Long ago on the great plains, the buffalo roamed and the Native Americans lived amongst each other. They were able to move freely across the lands until the white men came and concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The treaties were to assure that fur trade would continue without interruption. The American people wanting Indian land has led to violent conflict between the two. Succeeding treaties usually forced the tribes to give up their land to the United States government. There were laws made for Native American Displacement that didn’t benefit the Native Americans, these laws still have long lasting effects on them today, and there was a huge number of Native Americans killed for many reasons.