The Rights Of Native Americans

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.

Tribal sovereignty is a highly debated concept and an important aspect of Native American society. It refers to a tribe’s power to govern itself, manage its membership, and regulate tribal relations. As Joanna Barker stated, “Sovereignty carries the awful stench of colonization.” Tribal sovereignty must be traced to the beginning of colonization in North America. Colonizing nations asserted sovereignty over indigenous people and took away their independent status. The term “tribal sovereignty” carries with it multiples meanings and implications for tribal nations (Cobb, 2005).

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,

Ever since white men came to the New World, they were never at peace with the native peoples. One of the first white men to come to North America was Sir Walter Raleigh, who took the Indians he met as slaves as early as 1584. In the years that followed, settlers forced the Native Americans further and further west. By the year 1850, there had been many attempts at peaceful negotiations and uprisings on both sides, but the government eventually decided that reservations were the only way to contain the Indians and have peace. These reservations took away their pride, freedom, and way of life. Native Americans in reservations today are still plagued by lack of food and shelter, health and

Throughout history, just about every group of people have been oppressed in some way. From African Americans, to Hispanics, to judgement based on religion or gender, it is taught all of the time. Most popular are events such as the slavery in early America and the Holocaust. But one group that was also oppressed here in our own country were the Native Americans; arguably, they still are. However, they are not mentioned nearly as much as the others. There is no day for a leader of Native American civil rights as there is for Martin Luther King Jr.; Native American Heritage Month does exist, in November, but it gets much less attention in comparison to the African American History Month in February. This group has faced just as much continuing

I agree with you that that the Native American was treated brokenly when it comes to the harsh difficulties many Native Americans face every day, the saying "out of sight, out mind" hits home. The past and present injustices suffered by Native Americans started from before way back in Christopher Columbus’s time where they were stolen from, enslaves and killed for their lands and natural resources.

In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States and it was a victory for common people. Of course, Native Americans weren’t as lucky. As president, he forced the Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River to provide Americans with farming lands and resources. This action became known as the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Although some tribes relocated peacefully, many resisted. Now, in present day, the US government should repay the Native Americans back with their stolen land because it contained their self respect and traditions. Despite the fact that land and money can’t fix everything done to them, land would be much more beneficial toward the Native Americans.

Many people think that the African-Americans are the most oppressed group of people ever in the United States. That may be true based on the quality of oppression, but not the length of this type of treatment. The Native Americans have been the most oppressed group of people ever in the United States, and even in the colonies that preceded the US. From the early 16th century until even today, the Native Americans were and are being oppressed in this country. The cause was because of colonization. The Europeans colonization of what is now America led the Natives to despair and destruction.

Jackson was a well determined man, set on just one prior ambition, although past presidents didn’t quite share the same standings as he did. And that would be in regards to Native American equality. Jacksons discriminating bias against Natives is suggested to be because Jackson was southern raised. While president he allowed his stereotypical southern heritage (racially bias) judge and punish the Native. It is understood that southerners desperately desired then Indians land for its rich fertile ground in which they can farm and start their businesses. Despite southerners desires Indians did not wish to part from their native land. To please the south, Jackson strong held congress into passing the Indian removal act. In 1830 the United Stated

Afflicting America from century to century is the ultimate question of who does or does not hold a legitimate right to say he or she is an American Indian. Who decides identity? The white man? The Indian? Or how about the United States government? Identity of millions of individuals over time, scattered throughout the United States must be determined to some degree so that self-determination can be exercised by the indigenous people, now and in the future.

Zinn explains different forms of equality towards men, women, and children in Native American tribes and compares them to the equality in Europe and the colonies. When Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty new world, but into a world which places was as populated as Europe itself, where culture was complex, where human relations were more egalitarian than in Europe, and where the relations among men, women, children, and nature were more worked out than perhaps any place in the world. Zinn said “the status of women in Indian tribes are equal, it was better than the status of women in Europe” (5). Women were important and respected in Iroquois society, the senior women in the village named the men who represented the

The United States as we know it, since its beginning has been based on immigration. Native Americans traveled during the Ice Age through the Bering Strait and English settlers sailed the Atlantic. Due to unknown reasons, most of the Native societies except for the Aztecs collapse before the arrival of the Europeans, which gives shine to the English settlements since their attainment set the roots of our society today. More importantly, it should be recognized the diverse cultures of English settlers since it has set the precedent for the tolerance and freedom of expression that is experienced in the United States today. English migrated to the United States due to the lack of freedom of religion in the Mother Land. This made the New World a setting with a mixture of different religions that were persecuted in England. Each of the persecuted religious groups brought different cultures and as a result settled in different regions of the American continent Atlantic coast. These settlers were distributed through New England, the Carolinas, the Mid-Atlantic, and Chesapeake. Their differences in customs and terrain settled made for the success (or failure) of each colony.

Native American civil rights have been a very long and hard journey for native Americans. Throughout history they were treated in such harsh and horrible ways. Their land was taken from them, they were relocated, forced to fight in wars, portrayed as savages, they were not given citizenship for many years, etc. Native Americans were granted citizenship in 1924, however they were still facing many injustices. For many years, they were taken from their homes and put in boarding school to try to make them more American. They couldn’t speak their native language and they were taught trades like farming or brick laying. In the 50s about 100 tribes were legally terminated by the US government and Native people were relocated from their reservations.

With all of these issues at play, some people believe that the federal and state governments should be more involved with the problems the native people face by giving Native Americans greater protection over their rights. After all, according to Chief Justice Marshall in 1831, the federal government has a special obligation to care for Native Americans. One way the government can assist Native Americans is by providing more funds to Native American communities such as in areas of healthcare and education.

Before the Europeans began colonizing in North America there was already a group of people living on the land in harmony. These people are who we call the aboriginal people of Canada, as they were the first to be living on canadian soil. There are different aboriginal groups: First Nations, Inuit, Metis.(HA) These different groups all lived in sync as they lived off the land while having different societies and practises. When the settlers came they took land from these people