Many of these acts proved to be failures, and left conflicts unresolved. The Allotment Act of 1887 was passed to provide each family of tribal members 160 acres of land in hopes for assimilation with the non-Native Americans. This act ended in failure with poor planning, and no effort with teaching Natives how to cultivate land like White homesteaders in order to survive. Later, this resulted in many White landowners taking possession of these lands. The few Native Americans that managed to keep their land, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a federal government committee, served as trustee and held the legal titles over these lands.
Although Jacksonian democrats thought themselves to be defenders of the “common man” they only reached out to white males. All white males over twenty-one gained the right to vote even though they did not own property. Women didn’t gain any new rights and neither did slaves. Jackson then passed the Indian Removal Act which gave the Federal Government power to relocate Native Americans. This led to Indian suffrage and deaths of thousands of Native Americans.
America’s History is Wrong The author of the book introduction titled Indian/White Relations: A View from the Other Side of the “Frontier,” Alfonso Ortiz, makes the reader scrutinize and think about how historians have recorded and retold America’s early history. The history familiar to most Americans is biased because it is in accordance with white settlers’ viewpoint only. The Native Americans viewed the white settlement differently than we recorded. The Americas were no “frontier” for exploration. The land was the home of the natives; it was explored and well known.
Everyone should be treated as equals but that’s not the case with Indians, , because no one person is better than another. In the text book Canada Revisited 8 on page 208 it read “the purpose of the Indian Act was to assimilate First Nations people into Euro- Canadian culture”. The text in quotes stated that the beliefs and culture of the First Nations were primitive, and had no place in society. This is absolutely unfair to the First Nations people because the Canadian government is discouraging them to follow their customs, cultures, and beliefs. Another example of assimilation was that in 2002 the
The launching of the Great Experiment September 9, 2013 Establishing a durable Government in the 18th Century was very difficult because there was no way to please all of the country which all had different opinions. Americans have failed before with the Articles of Confederation because it did not meet the needs of our nation. There remained disputes between the Americans which led to the division of government; one remained for the American people and the other for the thirteen colonies belonging to Great Britain. The Constitution was also created to test Americans and to see if they could govern themselves without being watched by someone. The American people were in need of a government that would make everyone happy and satisfied.
Despite the documentary many Europeans were killed during these massacres as well as Indians. The director not showing the Europeans being killed is a form of selection of detail. This takes away our traditional views of Indians from the old Cowboy and Indian movies where Indians kidnapped women and children and the white people were there savior. When the Europeans settled in America they tried to recreate Britain in this land but the climate, plants and animals were totally different so they were upsetting the natural ecosystem of the land. Whereas this is what the Indians had successfully not done by harvesting only what they need.
148), the movement staged many protests against prejudiced Indian rights leading up to the siege at Wounded Knee. Wounded Knee was a rebellion of the extension of the White government control, by the Indians. The Whites established a government and military quickly after the colonisation of America that pacified the Indians in order to gain control of resources. This is the natural order of colonisation and with this idea combined with the fact that these Indians were educated (as by decree of the very same government), this caused the uprising against their White oppressors by the Indians, (Bodley, 1999, p.60). It seemed a disaster waiting to happen.
Re-Viewing the Past A) The author the Black Robe explained that the movie may not be as a plausible account of the relationship between the Jesuit missionaries and the Indians. The entire knowledge on how the movie was going to be made was based on letters from missionaries to their superiors. There are also many inaccuracies in the story because the Indians knew how winter gets, so why would they go on a 1,500 journey in the middle of it when they were known not to leave their camp or stay far from it during winter. In The Crucible the movie shows that John was the one that falters by omitting the commandments against adultery, but in history facts it was actually Elizabeth's mistake. The movie did take some of the correct historic to
U.S. Indian Policy after the Civil War The history of federal policy toward Native Americans has reflected changing ideas about whether Indians should be assimilated into white society or whether tribes should retain their sovereignty, and their right to be independent and self-governing entities. Native Americans have always maintained that each individual tribe is a sovereign nation and should therefore be authorized to govern itself without outside influence. Official recognition of Native American sovereignty has fluctuated according to the beliefs of presidents, Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Consequently, the rights of Native Americans have been expanded and condensed at various times throughout the nation’s history. When Europeans
There is much screening for hereditary illness, for insanity, and sanctions are placed on incest rules. Marriages between bloods related individuals are considered incest and therefore not allowed. Traditional Roles of Women and Men in my Culture The established or actual head of family in my culture is the male, hence, marriage is considered solidified with the birth of a male child who will in the future inherit the land. From the interviews I had with my 80 year old mother, she revealed that in olden days, the Igbo traditional marriage is no marriage of romantic love through beauty or handsomeness. The couples only establish a family for procreation.