The Dawes Severalty Act Of 1887

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.

Historically, the people of the United States and the Native tribes couldn’t live together, they fought because the two sides competed for superiority. The United States Government sought to put an end to the violent clashes with the American people and the Natives tribes. A resolution was the Indian Removal Act, with this, the United States became safer, wealthier, and stronger; And the Natives, which they saw as inferior, would leave. This Act wasn’t easy for the Native tribes, they left the land their ancestors had built them, and experienced a long road ahead of them to rebuild again.

It gives perspective on the side of the American Indians. The source was limited, because it was very biased towards the side of the American Indians, and does not let the reader come to their own conclusion.

When the Europeans and Spaniards first “discovered” North America all was well. The Indians at first were truly intrigued with the white man as the brought all sorts of new stuff to trade. Matter a fact the first set of settlers would not been able to survive without the help of the Indians. Unfortunately, the settlers had very little respect for the land and resources. The Europeans then starting using violence to get what they wanted and as the number of settlers increased the Indians new that they were in over their heads. With all the new settlers came diseases such as small pox and measles. These diseases hurt the Indian tribes severely, and with the ignorance the settler’s wars began; the Indian Wars, the Indian Removal Act, Wounded knee, and the trail of tears are only a few of the many. The U.S. Government took it upon themselves to start relocation programs, with these programs the Indians were ripped from their homes, required to speak only the language of the settlers and robbed of their customs. The children of the tribes were taken away and sent to special schools to Americanize them and forget about their heritage. Then in the late 1800’s the government started

How would you feel if the government seized your land, sold it, expected you to change your lifestyle and then tried to convince you it is for your own benefit? In 1887, the United States Government did exactly that to the Native American tribes with the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act effectively split up Native American land so that non-Native American people could take possession of it. The Native American people had worked the land their entire lives, and now they were faced with moving from their homeland and way of life for the government.

It was wrong for the government to reduce the Indian’s land by 90 million acres. Was it not enough forcing them onto reservations? They were taken from their native lands, placed in reservations, and then had their land reduced. How could this possible be considered okay? In the course book on page 546, it talks about how in order to protect the Indians from land speculators, the government held the allotted land in trust. The Indians could not sell the land for 25 years. I did some research on the Dawes Allotment Act and found an article titled, “Cleveland signs devastating Dawes Act into law”, written by the History.com Staff. In this article, it talks more about the trust the lands were put in. As you can see the American ideals of “freedom”

Kaitin Garrett Mrs. Abrams/ Mr. Gazette English/ Social Studies March 16, 2015 Andrew Jackson “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of the government to their own selfish purposes.” (Brainz). Poor treatment of Native Americans, his hatred of the Second U.S bank, and the Spoils System are a few of the reasons that Andrew Jackson does not deserve to be inducted into the Presidential Hall of Fame. Sending the them down the Trail of Tears is just one of the brutal things that Jackson did to the Native Americans. “It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their

The Indian Removal Act was a law passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, while Andrew Jackson was the president. The law approved the president to ask the Indians to move to land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. There were many arguments president Andrew Jackson and the other members of the United States government used to convince society that the Indian Removal was best for everyone. For example, the members of the US government tried to persuade the Indians that their removal was a good idea by saying it would save them from extinction, free them from the power of the states, help them pursue happiness their own way and stop them form separating amongst themselves. The US government also told them that they would

When whites first came to America, they tried to control the Indians. Whites soon realized that they could not control the Natives. This led to the Whites giving the Indians rights, but the Army ignored the rights the Natives had been given. As part of the Treaty of Fort Laramie or The Horse Creek treaty, 1851, the Native tribes were to be paid an annual annuity for granting the traveling immigrants a safe passage and staying within their tribal territories (Barrett 1). With an increase in foot travel along the trails leading to California for the gold rush, tensions were running high in the Native tribes (Cubbison 1). While the Natives were peaceful with the immigrants, their trust in The Army was failing. The soliders at Fort Laramie were

With good intentions congress upheld the Dawes Severalty act in 1887. It ended the reservation policy and encouraged Native Americans to intergrade into white society, as farmers and property owners.

The Indian Removal Act was a law that authorized the president to grant land west of the Mississippi River to indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands. Andrew Jackson had the power to relocate Native Americans in the west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The tribal leaders agreed, few of the tribes went peacefully, but many didn’t. The five groups were the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creeks and Seminoles, they all had to leave their homes, crops and places that were important to them. During the travel the Cherokees were forced by the US army and it became known as the “Trail of Tears.”

Instead of addressing the issue of encroachment in Sioux country, the U.S responded with drafting another treaty with the Sioux. Historically the United States government has a poor record of honoring treaties it had created to negotiate with Native tribes. As the federal demand for land or resources arose, the federal government simply went on to amend the provisions of previous treaties in their favor. Initially, treaties with Native nations sought to layout a relationship that existed between the U.S. and a tribe, yet as it progressed, the U.S. manipulated treaties as a way to take away Native rights to ancestral homelands. And so when Sioux treaty lands were overrun with miners and settlers, Tensions along the Bozeman Trail continued to

The government described these Indians as "civilized."  This meant they were too weak to cause more trouble. Many agreed to follow the ways of the white men. American Indians were taken advantage of for being friendly and peaceful. Although, this did not stop them from protecting their land. Conflict soon accelerated during this time between the Indians and white Americans. One conflict that exemplifies the violence that went on was the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. The tribes of the Indians such as the Arapahoe and the Cheyennes clashed with white settlers that wanted these Indians gone. It was basically a complete backstab as the Indians compromised to make peace with the white settlers but they did not comply and dauntlessly killed more than two-hundred Indians. According to Kevin M. Shultz in HIST3, “As white settlers began to demand the extermination of the Indians, a handful of chiefs sought peace”(326). In the Editorial from the Rocky Mountain News (1864), none was mentioned about how the Indians were willing to make peace. It made it seem as if the Indians were willing to fight since the very beginning instead of finding some sort of compromise. As the editorial progresses, it mentions about what the Indians lost during this battle. All of their

In chapters 16 and 17 we learned many things; a big portion was about the natives. Focusing on their treatments that consequently lead to their demise. As the white settlers moved in showing dominance, people could tell changes were coming. There were many adjustments made by the Plains Indians, yet they faced hardships such as, lack of supplies, adequate weapons, sicknesses, and declining tribe numbers

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.