AMERICAN HISTORY Name Institution Course Tutor Date The Native Americans lost their land, culture, and their lives due to European settlement of the new world. Native Americans had inherited the land presently termed as America and eventually their lives were destroyed because of European settlement of the new world. When the Europeans arrived and settled, they transformed the Native American way of life for the worst. These changes resulted from a number of factors including loss of land, disease, and attempts to export religion, and laws, which violated Native American culture. Native Americans under no circumstances came in contact with illnesses that emerged in the Old World since they were alienated from Asia, Europe, and Africa when
For example there were the Delaware Indians that, similar to Tecumseh, had tried for years to hold onto their tribal lands but regardless of their treaties and pleading for government assistance, witnessed the incoming settlers take as they pleased and even sell as their own to others the Delaware lands. (Donald H. Kent) There was the infamous event known as the Trail of Tears, the many instances of countless Indians massacred in their villages by the Army and their continual forced movement by the United States, eventually leading to their resettlement onto reservation land that was far less suitable than the land stolen from them. The United States Government owes the Original Americans very much. So much it could never be
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.
The British crown had given them land, but as the construction for the railroad began, the buffalo began to go elsewhere not having enough land to live on. The Natives had relied on the buffalo hunt for many years, so when the buffalo stopped coming, the Natives didn’t have much resources to live on with, and many of there population died. The Native Americans also did not have enough land to freely farm, and could not take food from the land like they used to, because they did not own it. Also the smallpox epidemic had killed many people from there tribes, which led to them not having enough people to hunt and had made them sign more treaties to survive through the
American Plains Indians Jared Cahoon Us History II Dr. Murphy 17 October 2013 The American Plains Indians were forced off their lands for many reasons the biggest reason being the U.S Military, also lack of food/ water. Both of these reasons are bad enough never mind both at the same time. The military would hunt as much buffalo as possible even if they didn’t need all of it whereas the Indians would hunt the least amount possible and use every bit of the buffalo possible. | | Gold was the main drive getting everyone to move out west to the plains and would also
Challenges American Indians Face Then and Now XXXXXXXXXXXX Northwestern State University Abstract Challenges have troubled American Indians throughout history a great deal. The land that they lived and occupied was a way of self-sufficient survival. The Americans and British used their clout by controlling trade, taking control of their lands and destroying their people. Assimilation was forced upon the American Indians to deprive them of their native language and culture. This paper will discuss the challenges that the American Indian Culture may face today: living conditions, families, education and employment, and health care.
Multiple treaties were made with the Native Americans; however, these treaties were rarely enforced and often broken, especially during the time of gold rushes. Once the United States had fully expanded to the West, it seemed like the only thing left to do was populate the area. However, there was a problem, Native Americans occupied and had occupied the Great Plains for hundreds of years. To solve this problem, the United Stated government created Native American reservations to avoid clashes over land boundaries between Native Americans and white settlers, and issued a series of treaties with the Native Americans in attempt to buy out their land and relocate them. By confining Native American tribes, the military could keep a watchful eye on their activity and occasionally provided for by federal effort.
Instead of commonly being sent to a ‘Settler’s Blocks’ under the agreement of the ‘Returned Servicemen’s Settlement Scheme’ (sections of land distributed to ex-servicemen for mainly agricultural use), they were given nothing, just because the white public wanted them to. Not only did the distribution of land affect the returned indigenous, but even the non-contributing Aboriginals, as the land the government was claiming for the scheme was Aboriginal Reserve Land, meaning that Aboriginals were forced to leave the land they had been settled on for decades. This left them with no money and nowhere to go. Not only taking away their land, the government continued to pick on indigenous Australians by creating the “Protection Acts” to, again, separate the blacks from the whites to ‘protect’ them. Even worse, based on public consensus, the Commonwealth Government agreed to legislate the entitlement of Aboriginal servicemen to be disregarded of their veteran
The Klan was targeting black political leaders and other blacks due the Reconstruction. For the first time, the Ku Klux Klan Act designated certain crimes committed by individuals as federal offenses, including conspiracies to deprive citizens of the right to hold office, serve on juries and enjoy the equal protection of the law. (Klu Klux
As the new settlers sought to take over the land, long periods of wars, forced displacement, massacres, imposition of treaties, and imposed hardships. As their lands were taken away from them, those that did survive the wars, hunger, and displacement were sent to reservations, which constituted only 4% of the U.S. territory. The natives were subjected to forced education systems to reeducate them in the white settler values, culture, and economy. Down to this day, the Native Americans are among the most harshly affected by racism and over 300 reservations are affected by environmental hazards. Even though the government has granted formal racial equality, Native Americans remain some of the most economically disadvantaged in the