The Mcgillivray Moment Compare And Contrast

By 1940, Native Americans had experienced many changes and counter-changes in their legal status in the United States. Over the course of the nineteenth century, most tribes lost part or all of their ancestral lands and were forced to live on reservations. Following the American Civil War, the federal government abrogated most of the tribes’ remaining sovereignty and required communal lands to be allotted to individuals. The twentieth century also saw great changes for Native Americans, such as the Citizenship Act and the Indian New Deal. Alison R. Bernstein examines how the Second World War affected the status and lives of Native Americans in American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs. Bernstein argues

Chief Joseph, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Frederick Jackson Turner all wrote about how they felt that the government treated them differently from others. They described how their families, land, and tribes were affected by the limitations placed on them at the time. Each of the authors gave reasonable explanations to support their feelings towards this unequal treatment.

The natives didn’t get there rights they were promised,they were promised land yet they lost much,they were promised peace yet many died of war,the U.S. was unfair and unjust toward the nez perce and had forced them into signing the treatie and did not stand by it. Although the U.S, may say that they followed all the Natives rights and that they may not understand the treaties but still the natives rights weren’t followed as stated in the treatie.

During the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had formed policies which reduced land allotted to Native Americans. By enforcing these laws as well as Anglo-American ideals, the United States compromised indigenous people’s culture and ability to thrive in its society.

From its birth, America was a place of inequality and privilege. Since Columbus 's arrival and up until present day, Native American tribes have been victim of white men 's persecution and tyranny. This was first expressed in the 1800’s, when Native Americans were driven off their land and forced to embark on the Trail of Tears, and again during the Western American- Indian War where white Americans massacred millions of Native Americans in hatred. Today, much of the Indian Territory that was once a refuge for Native Americans has since been taken over by white men, and the major tribes that once called these reservations home are all but gone. These events show the discrimination and oppression the Native Americans faced. They were, and continue to be, pushed onto reservations,

It is clear that throughout many years there has been an exemption of treatment when talking about the Native Americans in the United States. Supposedly every individual is endowed with the right of freedom, equality, and of seeking for happiness, but Native Americans were treated irrationally. From the discovery of America, to the founding fathers and settlers, the treatment and attitude towards Native Americans has been unsettling at best. The colonial policies toward the Native Americans affected the Indians in ways that changed their relationship between their tribes and the new nation. Cabeza de Vaca, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, and Benjamin

In this chapter Howard Zinn explores the reasons why and how the Native populations in existence in America, during this time, were pushed onto reservations located on lands undesirable to white settlers. In the beginning Zinn reveals most Natives fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War, which gives reason for the two groups to harbor harsh feelings towards each other. However, he then goes on to present the overall message of the George Washington administration, which was to leave the Natives alone as they were entitled to their lands. Yet, this idea was obviously shattered as soon as the country wanted to further advance its territory and its bank accounts, according the Zinn. In fact, the lands were being used up by so many white settlers the Natives, specifically the Creeks, had to continually move to give the plantations room to settle. As a result, this constant manipulation and movement caused uproar within the Native communities and inspired revolutions and revolts, such as the rebellion organized by Tecumseh. Eventually, as the US government was able to defend itself and recruit other Native peoples, it was able to defeat and usurp essentially all of the uprisings, especially under Andrew Jackson’s command. In fact, after Jackson’s reelection, his anti-Indian raids and wars increased in frequency and ruthlessness. Eventually, in December of 1838, almost all of the Natives, specifically the Cherokee Nation of Indians, had been forced out of the

For example, in 1887 the United States Congress passed the Dawes act, “under the Dawes Act, the president was granted the power, at his discretion and without the Indians’ consent”. This example is effective as it shows how the United States expresses its dominance over the Indians. Ultimately the United States was able to seize control of Indian lands and power for the President as the Whites saw him as a admirable political power. In addition, Chief Joseph says “they stole a great many horses from us and we could not get them back because we were Indians”. Once again the United States expresses its dominance over the Indians by taking their horses and cattle. This is crucial due to the fact it means Americans had more influence and larger numbers in the area resulting in the Indians being powerless as they were peasants compared to the kings, they simply watched as the Americans took everything they had. Overall the United States used their influence and numbers to dominate the Indians and leave them powerless in their

In the mid-1800s, settlers started moving in to the eastern part of the country, in hope of fulfilling a dream shared among settlers called the “Manifest Destiny”. With intentions of only peace, the miners created a treaty that allowed the miners to mine on the land that the Indians were living on. It put the Native Americans on an Indian reserve, that the Miners were only allowed on if given permission by the Indians. Like every deal, this treaty had strings attached. They were to move out in 30 days, and after that, anything left on the land would become the miner’s property. The Nez Perce War had started because of Chief Joseph's refusal to sign the treaty. Soon after Chief Joseph’s refusal to sign the treaty, the settlers made it clear that

American colonists and the Native Americans of North America have had challenges getting along with each other ever since they encountered early in the 17th century. During the American Revolutionary war they were allies but once the white settlers gained freedom, they started to seek more land, which happened to be the land Native Americans occupied. After a long ferocious thirty year war, President Andrew Jackson issued The first annual address to congress, this article fulfills Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, contains bias and assertion which marginalize and silence the voice of Native Americans.

On our journey westward, we ran several Native American tribes. As we met and introduced ourselves, some of these groups remained hostile, while others were friendly. One important tribe we met was the Nez Perce. On September 20, 1805, 3 young boys saw Captain Clark and a few other men approaching the Nez Perce lodges. Clark wanted the young boys who had found him know that friendly visitors had arrived, so he offered them a ribbon. While the young boys were frightened, they had no guns or ammunition, so they remained friendly. Because this tribe had no weapons, they agreed to cooperating as long as us, the Corps, provided guns and other fighting tools for them to use. While we stayed with the Nez Perce, we were treated with a filling meal

The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict between several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of the Palouse tribe led by Red Echo (Hahtalekin) and Bald Head (Husishusis Kute), against the United States Army. The conflict, fought between June–October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed "non-treaty Indians", to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho. This forced removal was in violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla, which granted the tribe 7.5 million acres in their ancestral lands and the right to hunt and fish in lands ceded to the government.

The relationship between the colonizer and the colonized is very much similar to that of a “superior” species claiming territory. In Andrew Jackson’s Speech to Congress on Indian Removal, President Jackson decides to push the Natives to a different place under the pretense of assisting both sides. Though it seemed like a great idea, approximately 3,000 Natives passed away on the journey and was named the Trail of Tears. Thus, as the superior reign, the weak fall under.

The United States perspective on the Native people has drastically changed from President to President. “George Washington originally started the ‘Indian Civilization Campaign’, which encouraged the Native people to adopt Western-European culture along with Christianity.” (Sturgis, pg 5) The United States was to recognize the Native groups as the owners of the land they inhabit, with the rights to sell or retain them. This ideology was later adopted and implemented by Thomas Jefferson who believed that it was, “established by Jus gentium for America, that a white nation settling down and declaring that such and such are their limits, makes an invasion of those limits by any other white nation an act of war, but gives no right of soil against the native possessors.” (Sturgis, pg 5)

From the conflict in non-physical it leads to the conflict in physical aspect. To the Native Americans, land is something that they have to respect. On the contrast, the European considered land as a tool to enrich them. As a result, tribes lost massive amounts of land to the U. S. Government, for which they were often neither paid nor compensated. “By 1820, they had lost claim to over half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Most Native Americans and some whites thought that the government's relations with Native Americans were marked by dishonesty, corruption, and deception. By 1838, almost all native villages in Michigan had been abandoned.”