To try and control their lifestyles the government created residential schools, and forced the First Nations children to attend. When the government tried to restore the peace with the aboriginals through treaties, they ended up making the divide
Statements like these clearly indicate that the United States already views the land as its own, and negates all claims that Native tribes might have had to the land. The settler’s law has now become their law, whether they like it or not. Another document, “Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians” by U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners member Merrill Gates, further reflects not only the aforementioned view of the Indians land but also goes into greater detail about the prevailing attitudes towards Native Americans at the time. A telling passage in from the section “What is an Indian” states: “Daniel Webster applies to the Indians an old legal definition…he calls them ‘perpetual inhabitants with diminutive rights.’ On the whole, the term which has found most favor with those who consider the matter is ‘wards of the
Concessions were given such as land, education, healthcare and citizenship but this was not with out strings attached. The white government still works to the controls the rules and regulations of these Natives that are the only people in the U.S that are racially and ethnically governed and defined by federal law. The fact is that even today our government is looking for ways undefined these people and their culture. Will there ever be an end to the quest for genocide of the Native American Indians? Even with the concessions that the government made to the Native people, the fact is that they have been put through hell and they were initially and continue to be targeted for extinction in one way or another.
In the story of Offer to Help, the Iroquois tribe is introduced to American settlers. The settlers are trying to offer to educate the Indian youth in their Western ways, in Western schools. This is a great gesture by the settlers, “… and the maintance of our young Men, while with you would be very expensive….” Is what Canassatego said to the settlers. The Natives do not feel that
a. Designated boundaries for reservations b. Use of military force c. Treaties and compensation d. Gold rushes e. Policy of assimilation Throughout the 19th century, the treatment of Native Americans by the United States government was far less than respectful. The US government allowed its desire for settlement in the West to justify the relocation of thousands of Native Americans. Once on reservations Native Americans were expected to assimilate into the American culture.
The federal government's responsibility is the legal agreement made by the United States government to the Indian tribes when the Indian lands had given away to the United States government. This agreement can be found in federal law, treaties, judicial opinions, international doctrine, and executive orders. It could be divided by three general promises: protection of the Indian's trust lands: assurance of tribal individual-governance; and foundation of central social, medical, and educational assistances for the Native American past tribe members. These obligations have not been followed through by the United States government. The federal.
This would lead to conflicts in Oregon and Texas because under the hold of Canada and Mexico these two territories were ruled by a monarchy and aristocracy. Americans truly believed that they were chosen by God to spread Democracy and Protestantism and believed that any other form of rule and worship were part of the old world. It was the goal of Americans to replace the old world with the New World and to do so they needed to teach them a new way to rule and
The Act passed by the congress promised “to protect and preserve for American Indians their inherent right of freedom to believe, express and exercise their traditional religions, including but not limited to access to sites, use and possession of sacred objects and the freedom to worship through ceremonies and traditional rites” (A Brief Historical 104). The year1988 brought the trial of Lyng vs. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, the Indians arguing that “the building of a logging road in the Six Rivers National Forest would bring irreparable damage to their sacred sites” (A Brief Historical 105). The lover courts injunction against building the road was overturned by the Supreme Court thus they allowed its construction, but the road, fortunately never was
Then centuries later, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 where the Indians were removed from their native grounds and put them on reservations. The United States started to colonize the Native Americans in order to make them more social accepted and this caused both negative and positive effects on the Indians and the Indian culture.
/Conversely, imperialistic nations were in a race to advance in power to be able to be stronger than their neighbors. They would go to another nation, set up camp, harvest raw resources, and treat the people of those nations like second class citizens. If they rose up, they put down the uprising with violence. Some used religion as a reason to expand, but ultimately they were out for the same things. They wanted land and resources.