The Misunderstanding About Native Americans And Americans

Most of the American population believed that the "Indian" people are inferior, treat them as the barbarians, and often as foolish children. The Indians could not claim equal status with other nations, because initially, by their nature they are not equal to the white people.Forcible relocation to Mississippi rivers was a clearing the land for white occupancy and national police didn’t have any changes from 1790s only expansion and reformulation of the law.Since the English settlers arrived in the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands.

When the Europeans arrived in the Americas they were looking for riches, spices, and new trade routes to India. When they found this new world and the Native Americans that lived there, they deliberately mistreated them. Looked at as obstructions, the Natives were driven from their land and homes and pushed west. Europeans that encountered the Native Americans had different ideas about them depending on their political and religious beliefs but none were positive. Those ideas ranged from pity for them as non-Christians to be converted (Doc. A2) and treated as children to a lower status of human to be taken advantage of for profits. The Natives were forced to mine precious metals, and farm sugar cane and tobacco. They were not viewed or treated as equal persons. They were considered part of the wild land to be conquered, enslaved, killed, and beaten into cooperation.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. Clearly, the Native American Indians would not have envisioned the Europeans arrival to North and South America as a doubled edged sword. The Europeans / U.S. Governments land- hungry appetite used treaties as a means to displace Indians from their tribal lands. Some of the early settlers dealt fairly with Native Americans, while others did not. By the 1830’s, “Americans” wanted to expand their territory. In order to do so this meant taking over sacred ancestral lands from the Native Americans. Now, it became an issue of land and culture, how could these two sides ever agree on such a divisive situation? “The residents of the Americas were no more a single group than Europeans or Africans. They spoke

Originally Native American tribes were viewed as their own Nations. They owned their own land and could make up their own rules. Most importantly, the United States government did not have authority over them. However, by 1838 this had all changed. The Cherokee Indians had been forced to give up their ancestral land and walk to their new, United States government determined, land. not only did this go against policy, it resulted in the death of many Cherokees as they were forced to walk hundreds of miles. As shown through the Trail of Tears, Later federal policy towards Native Americans Became both more heartless and more harmful. especially when it's put in contrast with the earlier fairer

The United States socially saw themselves as superior to the Indians before and after Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal in the early 1800’s. For example, Tecumseh says in his speech in the Winter of 1811 that “the white men despise and cheat the Indians; they abuse and insult them; they do not

Europeans had different ideologies than indigenous peoples when it came to land in terms of who could own the land. As a result of European entitlement, they assumed that the land was available to be taken. The process of removing indigenous people from their land began, and the settlers were justifying it by suggesting that is was not necessarily “stealing” land, but rather it was “saving” the land from being misused by the savages that lived there previously (Sahlins 19). Mindsets such as these finalized the traumatic process of Native American invisibility as they were forced out of their land and their homes.

Anglos continued to encroach upon the Natives’ lands and settle there. This caused conflict between Anglos and Natives, which usually did not end well for the latter. Natives would often, “ ... fall under the assault of our [American] troops” (Pratt 1). American troops would often kill the Native people whenever there was a conflict. America showed its power and dominance over Natives by bullying and hurting them. Anglos did not respect the Native people and continued to assert their dominance. Many people of the time thought that, “... the only good Indian is [was] a dead one...” (Pratt 1). Anglos did not believe that Natives deserved to live here; Anglos thought they were of the past and did not belong in America. The oppression of the Natives caused them to lose the will to fight

Eventually in the 1830s, Andrew Huxley evacuated large portions Native Americans starting with their terrains in the Southern United States. The majority of the tribes were moved under to the midwest what might have been marked “Indian Territory”. is they were guaranteed by the administration on the given land a chance to be viewed as countries of their own. At the Civil War break out in 1861, the Union and Alliance. Understanding that a solid cooperation of these Five tribes might be a chance to be an insightful relationship will make the Indians may bring men to fight, and additionally show help to state’s privileges on legislating framework done in Washington. The New York Times published, with respect to the Admiral in 1863, that, “The address for subjection in the Indian Territory and in the States will be a chance to be made out about domains of the United States, achieving the disintegration of the Union, and the beginning of the Civil

Many Native Americans thought that the Spaniards, where a kind of enemies. That is why they were always in a fight with them the, Native Americans thought that the Spaniards were willing to overpower them, therfore Native Americans will kill the Spaniards before they have a chance to kill Native Americans first. But, there were times were Native Americans would process the situation and rather not kill them but, help them. Was it a mistake? Maybe, but they were human enough to understand that the Spaniards may have a family waiting for them somewhere and their children would be there to welcome them home. Rather than Native Americans to kill the Spaniards in that moment, they will spare their life’s and protect them in any kind of way the

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)

On Thursday September 22, I attended a common reading event with a classmate. Dr. Adrienne Keene, Native scholar, writer, blogger, and activist, was the guest speaker for the particular event. She is known to be a part of the Cherokee Nation. Dr. Keene gave a presentation on how people in today’s society tend to misrepresent Native Americans through pop culture and media. She mainly talked about stereotyping and cultural appropriation. Classmates told her that she did not appear to be an Indian and they thought all Native Americans were extinct. Even her faculty said hurtful things to her.

Native American history is, almost definitely, one of the bloodiest and most tragic series of events ever recorded. From the time when Europeans first landed in America, Indians were enslaved, persecuted, used, violated, and slaughtered by explorers and, later, colonists and

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.”

Native Americans were unable to resist invasion by the new United States because of overwhelming pressure from white officials and settlers therefor undercutting their society from maintaining independence and freedom. Disease, immigration, and forceful relocation would be the demise of both the populations and the spirits of the Native American tribes. White officials and new settling communities came in droves, some saw the Native American as either peaceful or logical, therefor capable of assimilation into the American populous; or they were seen as savages and hostiles capable of only bloody warfare and guerrilla tactics. Both images of the Native American residents were true, they tended to side with whoever they believed would help them keep their land during wars, for example the French in the French and Indian war, and the British in the American Revolution.

American identity has been created by many events throughout the course of history. This country was founded on the clashing and mixing of many different cultures and lifestyles. One of the most important periods of time for this country was during the period of conflict between Americans and Native Americans over land rights. Americans had an idea of manifest destiny and that this land was theirs for the taking. The Americans were going to walk through anyone who opposed them in this quest for land. The treatment of the Indians during this time period was harsh, cruel, and violent to say the least. It is in this treatment that Americans came to view the Indians as a ?racialized other? and