Chapter 13 1.) The westward movement entangled the United States in the affairs of foreign powers when we came into contact of previously existing Natives and Spanish that lived on the land that we were expanding towards. That involved us in military affairs with other countries. On page 424, it explains that Spain held title to most of the trans-Mississippi west property and that for the last hundred years or so were expanding and settling, and tried only to fail to keep people from migrating to that area. It goes on to explain that Americans before the great migration of the 1840s migrated for the attraction of fur businesses.
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.
In February of 1891, the General Allotment Act was signed which assigned small parcels of land to individual natives. This cause cultural assimilation, as the rich native culture began to break up and assimilate to the growing culture system in the US. Soon after in 1904, 44 out of the 118 reservations were opened as homesteads for non-Natives. Throughout the act’s life, 90 million acres of land were lost to the
If they did choose to stay the Indians will have to obey the states laws anyways. Why not move to the west of the Mississippi River and try to claim their own independent state there. Lastly, is the race and color card. The Indians are clearly not white men; therefore they would probably be thrown into slavery and be treated like the African American. Even worse, if the Indians bear their grounds many will be killed by the white men for trying to hold the land and the Indian race can be even extinct.
Some Indian merchants had realized that these trades were unfair so only sold good furs for what they believed was goo manufactured goods. Though there weren’t disputes between the French and the Indians, land disputes would break out between the Indians over hunting grounds. This trade made for a far less stressful relation between the French and the indigenous people of the ‘New World’. Trade did have its faults for the Indians. Disease brought with the French quickly killed many Natives because they didn’t have any immunes built up.
Asked whether blacks preferred to live in communities of their own or "scattered among the whites," he replied: "I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over." (On this point alone, disagreement followed, for Lynch insisted it would be best for the races to live together; all the others, however, agreed with Frazier.) At the same time, Frazier affirmed the loyalty of African Americans, free and slave, to the federal government. "If the prayers that have gone up for the Union army could be read out," he added, "you would not get through them these two weeks." As for Sherman himself, Frazier remarked that blacks viewed him as a man "specially set apart by God" to "accomplish this work" of
He was a doctor, she was a Sunday school teacher. That year they placed their mission with the Cayuse tribe near Fort Walla Walla. Other missionaries, Henry and Eliza Hart Spalding placed a mission 125 miles away with the Nez Percés tribe. The Whitmans thrived at first, but over the next decade, the Cayuse knew the missionaries brought more Whites and diseases with them. In 1847, the Cayuse attacked the mission, killing the Whitemans and other Whites.
The Native American Indians lived here for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived to lay claim to of the land for themselves. The American Indian is defined by the indigenous people of the area that is known as the United States. The Native Americans lived here for thousands, even millions of years before the Europeans arrived to lay their claim on the land Because of the mass of the land and the vast differences in the environment, families, or clans joined together to form tribes. The leaders of the tribes were called Chiefs. Who would make the decisions when the tribal council would meet?
The white people decided that they wanted to take the land away from the Indians and formed a government against the Indians. The children were taken to these reservations for education but they were not allowed to know about their heritage, they had to learn the American way. This was hard for the elders to understand, they wanted their
These policies included protectionism, assimilation, integration and finally self-determination. The first government policy was protectionism which was during the 19th and 20th centuries. Protectionism was the idea that Aboriginal Australians needed to be separated from white Australians and ‘protected’ for their own good as they were a dying race. Under this policy Aboriginal people were removed from their traditional land and were placed on government-run reserves or church-run missions where they were to live. Some half-caste children were removed from their tribe and were placed in white families.