What Is The Harsh Situation Of Native Americans

Before the white men had moved west Native Americans occupied the land west of the Mississippi River. The Plains Indians were nomadic tribes that moved around throughout western North America. Then in the mid-1800s the east of the United States was starting to get crowded; the idea of moving west was beginning to look very entertaining. There were a lot of natural resources out west such as, precious metals, wood, In 1849 gold was discovered in California and the 1849 Gold Rush occurred. Hundreds of thousands of men moved west to pan and mine for gold. Some of the Americans moved west because they thought it was their God given right to expand throughout the entire continent; no matter who lived there already. Now the settlers were walking right through Native American territory and that angered the natives. This caused skirmishes between the two peoples. On top of that the United States government was passing all sorts of acts to isolate Native Americans. All of these things affected Native Americans. Western expansion and government affected Native Americans by depletion of resources, assimilations, and governmental actions.

government has unspecified and unorganized policies, which were unprotected for Native Americans who lived in the west because of all the new coming Americans. During westward expansion, a majority of who moved were whites, who didn’t know the Native Americans who already lived in the west. The Natives felt their land was being conquered, because of the U.S government policies(Louisana Purchase & Homestead Act) and the whites not wanting them to be there, which lead to fighting between the Natives and the whites. These acts and policies such as the Indian Removal Act often resulted in violated treaties and violence. The Indian Removal Act was the removal of Native American homes and tribes. “This also confines the Indians to still narrower limits, destroys that game which in their normal state, and constitutes their principal means of subsistence.” Resulting in westward expansion, Native Americans began rapidly decreasing in the area by wars and new diseases caught by new coming

During westward expansion, the Native Americans got kicked to the side. The settlers coming west often saw the Indians as a threat to them and their families. However, this was not the main reason the Indians were pushed aside. The settlers saw the Indians had fertile land and wanted it for themselves. The Indians were the opposite of what the settlers thought they were. The Indians often helped the people moving west across the plains; giving them food, supplies, and acting as guides. However, the U.S. Government did not see this side of the Indians, instead they forced the Indians onto reservations. During the time of the expansion of the United States to the present, the Native Americans went through many things so that the United States could expand; they were pushed onto reservations, and forced to give up their culture through the Ideas of Manifest Destiny and Social Darwinism.

Then the Europeans would raid Indian villages looking for these children some children were there so long they didn't remember anything about their past, so when the Europeans took them some would have to be dragged off because this was the only home that they knew, some of them would run away back to the Indian village they came from.Then in about 64 years later most of the native americans were put on Indian reservations.In less than 10 years Indian reserves were very common and people just put the Native Americans in these reserves without a thought on how they felt.The only other option that the Native Americans had was they had to join the society of the white people the Americans basically eradicated all of the Indians culture.When the elders would die the culture died with them because they could not pass the

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.

In the third document, Treaty of Fort Laramie, shows over the years how much the Americans took the Native’s land. In 1868, the Lakota nation had mostly the Western land and over 10 years the Lakota land shrunk in size because of the US pushing them away from building the transcontinental railroad. In 1868, the Second treaty of Fort Laramie gave tribes, the Sioux and Cheyenne, a large reservation in the black hills of South Dakota. Then in 1874, White prospectors found gold in the Black Hill. Miners intruded onto Sioux land. Two chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, united to push back the intruder which is known as the battle of Little Bighorn.(81) The Battle was fought on June 25, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory(Battle of little Bighorn).The Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire force of of U.S troops.(78). Another document that showed how the land was taken from them is documen one. The map shows how the Native Americans lost mostly all of their land in the years of 1850-1870 that was when gold was discovered, battles, and the Sand Creek Massacre. The Western expansion cause many significant battles which cause many deaths of Native Americans as well as

In the early 1800’s, The United States and Spain had continuously argued with the Native people. The Louisiana Territory was purchased from France in the year 1803, Americans continued to push farther west for fertile land that could be used for farming. Due to overcrowding of eastern cities like New York City and Boston many settlers moved out west for a new start. It allowed for colonists to spread out and own untouched fertile land. When white settlers arrived they had realized that most of the land acquired from the territory was occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years. For decades Americans had thought that the land west of the Appalachian Mountains were unoccupied, but they were wrong. There were many tribes that had occupied this land. This included tribes like, The Choctaw, Cherokee, and The Chickasaw. In a sense, Americans had violent outbreaks with the Natives the minute the colonists’ had arrived in the United State. As the colonists’ tried to establish complete dominance and superiority over the Indians, ongoing heated debates over land ownership, and demanding requests to satisfy greed made forceful attacks between the groups unavoidable.

Both sides competed for the alliance of the Natives. Most Native Americans who joined the struggle joined on th side of the British in an attempt to halt the settlers expansion westward, but many native communities remained divided on which side to support. After the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 the British turned large swaths of native land over to the Americans and they in turn tried to treat the Natives as a conquered people which proved difficult. These difficulties coupled with the desire to continue to expand westward caused the newly formed American Government to try to buy the land from the Natives through various treaties and negotiations, this too proved difficult.

The treatment of the Native Americans by the United States government to try to control all the land was poor. The United States Government pushed the Native Americans to the coast. At first, they gave the Native Americans the Great Plains then realized that they could use it. The United States held a meeting with the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux, and Crow tribes. They signed treaties with the Native Americans saying that if they moved they would give them more land that they could keep, they broke all of these treaties which angered the Native Americans.

The purchase of Louisiana doubled the United States in size and was the key to the beginning of westward expansion. This expansion of the U.S. served as one of the defining topics of American history but contrarily, it nearly demolished the entire democracy. Because of Louisiana’s high birth rate and rapid immigration, the United States’ population increased from about five million to more than twenty-three million people. Such expeditious growth as well as economic depressions drove millions of Americans to the west in search of fresh territory and opportunities also known as manifest destiny. At the start of the 1830’s almost one hundred twenty-five thousand Native Americans lived on southeast acres that their ancestors had inhabited for generations. But then President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act which gave the government the authority to trade native held land for land to the west that the United States had obtained with the purchase of Louisiana. By the closing of the decade, only a few Natives were left because the Federal government mandated that they abandon their homeland and go to designated Indian territory. This expedition was better known as the Trail of Tears. The purpose of these reservations was to bring the Native Americans under United States government control, eliminate conflict between the Indians and settlers, and finally to further encourage Native Americans to take on the habits of settlers. In exchange tribes usually received money but it was never a lot and the majority were spent on purchasing food and supplies from traders. But the daily living conditions of the reservations primarily had the most catastrophic results with devastating and long lasting effects. Overall, the rapid territorial expansionism resulted in relocation and brutal mistreatment of Native American occupants of territories now occupied by the United

The Mexican people were forced into war over the possession and border of Texas and eventually lost Texas. Then American settlers moved into New Mexico and California, where they revolted with support from the American government. Mexico lost Texas and got paid a minimal amount for California and New Mexico. Missouri was made a slave state in the Missouri Compromise and in the Compromise of 1850 Texas was made a leave state to counterbalance the non-slave states. Overall the Native Americans took the biggest hit from westward expansion. They were driven off their land by settlers, and even the government. President Jackson ordered the Indian removal act in 1830 resulting in the trail of tears where many Native Americans were moved from their land. They were placed onto land reservations where, according to H. Riley, the “[Native Americans] could not hunt buffalo… and were instead provided with supplies of beef… from the government” (Westward Expansion). The Native American’s culture and tradition were torn away from them along with their land and they were no longer to live how they had and wanted to. All because of two reasons, to provide more land, and to avoid

The Native Americans were forced to move out of their territory that they lived in before the Americans came. Jackson forced them to move west of the Mississippi River. One tribe, the Cherokee, tried to not be removed by adapting to the Americans culture. Jackson took this to court in a case called Worchester V. Georgia. The court ruled that the Cherokee could stay, but Jackson ignored this and made them move. They had to walk 800 miles to the new territory, which was called the Trail of Tears. Almost one fourth of the 18,000 Cherokee died. “By persuasion and force they have been made to retire from river to river and from mountain to mountain, until some of the tribes have become extinct and others have left but remnants,” was said in source #3. Jackson caused pain and suffering to the Native

The more the white men pushed them away, the more land the Indians lost. Native Americans lost all of their crops and their hunting ground. White men began killing buffalo for sport and wasting the meat and fur. A buffalo shortage ensued. As these Native Americans began relocating, they could not hunt due to the lack of buffalo. Native Americans began to starve and die. The government was barely a part of what was happening to the Native Americans. The government was being told stories about how the Native Americans were savages and killing off many white people including women and children (United States. National

I do not think the U.S. government pursued the correct policy in regard to the Native Americans, and they realized it too. At one point the congressmen, and even the president, realized how badly they treated the Natives and quickly tried to correct themselves, although that didn't work out well either. In an attempt to help they tried to "Americanize" them, which was essentially assimilation, which is a whole other racist issue. They passed the Dawes Act and abolished Native tribes, which they had absolutely no right to do, and taught their children that they were barbarians. What they did to the Natives was 100% genocide, they were very content with killing all of them if it meant that they could take their land. It was so sick that

Nowadays, the Native Americans have faced the bad living conditions. There are lots of factors contribute to the hardship such as economics, health, and racism. The Native Americans have a poor quality of education. Their schools are separated from the White’s schools. As a result, the chance to get a job out of the reservation is decreasing. At the reservations, the governments are the largest employers. And about a half of ten adults are unemployed. The reservation’s income and economy are depending on the government. Sometimes, people heard that the Indians own the casinos. In fact, a very few reservation could own the casinos. Although there are casinos in the reservations, the income belongs to the investors instead. The housing on the