...Native Americans in the 19th and 20th Centuries Table of Contents I Introduction………………………………………………………….P. 4 II Treaties Involving the Native Americans…………………………...P. 4 III Military Actions Involving the Native Americans…………………P. 7 IV Policies Involving the Native Americans………………………….P. 10 V Conclusion………………………………………………………….P. 12 VI Bibliography……………………………………………………….P. 13 I Introduction The term Native American means just what it says. These people were the people that were Native to the land when the first European settlers arrived here. These first settlers were not interested in taking away what belonged to the natives. They were not concerned with trying to change them to become more “civilized”. The early settlers were more interested in learning from them and trading with them for their survival in this new and untamed land. This would not always be the case though. As time progressed hostilities exploded between the Native Americans and the settlers. There were many policies and treaties placed upon the Indians, and when they revolted against these things military actions were what made them accept the fate that they did not want to accept. II Treaties Involving Native Americans Treaties were put in place supposedly to protect the Native Americans. Unfortunately they were mainly used as a way for the white man to take over the Indian’s land and hunting grounds. A lot of the time these treaties were ignored all together by the government that put...
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...this question is essentially that the differing beliefs on land between the Native Americans and white settlers was what eventually led to the destruction of the Plains Indians’ way of life. To come to a conclusion on this, the factor of land beliefs will have to be analysed and considered. But to compare and make a fair judgement, I will also be examining other factors also. These will include the railroads, US government and the US army. I shall then come to conclusion based on the analysis in my assessment. As it is the subject of the hypothesis for this question, I shall start with analysing the impact of beliefs of land. The primary Belief on land of the Plains Indians was that no body owned it, and that everything belonged to the Great Spirit. The white Americans however believed that land was owned by whoever took it first, or who bought it off the owner. This led to conflicts and therefore partially led to the destruction of the Native American way of life. The white Americans quickly claimed land and would move the Plains Indians around as they saw fit, usually affected by where gold had recently been discovered. This culminated in putting the Native Americans on reservations. In many of the agreements and treaties signed over land the settlers would claim never to go back on their promises “as long as grass grew” and “the mountains stood”. Breaking the promises would have shown the Native Americans that the settlers thought little of their intelligence, and also would...
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...Demographics of urban Native Americans Urban Native Americans are the fastest-growing segment of native populations. Due to the lack of economic stability Native Americans are moving away from their traditional reservations in search of employment. Native Americans are faced with many new and unforeseen cultural aspects that they are not accustomed to. Urban Native Americans had to overcome these challenges for the benefits of their families. The US federal government had a doctrine to try to simulate Native Americans into mainstream society. The US federal government tried different approaches such as establishing Bureau of Indian affairs schools, so that they could instill Western-style education that would replace traditional teachings of their cultures. This movement was called “killed Indian save the man”. The next avenue of approach the federal government news was the relocation program that ran from 1948 through 1979. This program was this designed to relocate and train Native Americans in jobs that were located in major metropolitan cities. Federal government thoughts where to give Native Americans new life’s often it lead to Native Americans losing touch with their Native American identities. These cities were Denver, New York, Los Angeles and other major metropolitan areas. Present-day these cities have large urban Native American populations. Their transition to city life was often difficult due to a lack of necessary support (i.e. finding housing, accessing job training...
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...said for Native American writing in the 1700-1800s. The Native Americans have consistently been overlooked and not given enough credit. Native Americans have been a part of our history for hundreds of years but we rarely see their news on the big news sources, and many of their stories do not get heard or acted upon. One headline we have seen on the news is the NFL Redskins team renaming controversy. Although we have seen and heard of the controversy in the news, it has been a long drawn out process that has not had any resolution yet. One theme often in early Native American literature as well as in...
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...Portfolio 3: Native American Mascot Controversies within Sports Throughout the history of sports, Native American Indian mascots, symbols, and names have been incorporated nationwide. The propriety of using Native American mascots and images in sports has been a topic of debate in the United States and Canada since the 1960s. Americans have had a history of drawing inspiration from native peoples and "playing Indian" that dates back at least to the 18th century. “The controversy surrounding the use of Indian mascots, symbols, and names in American sports has origins that run deep throughout the history of Indian and non-Indian relations (American Indian Issues 1).” Today, the use of Indian mascots is at the center of an argument that touches the emotional hearts and souls of both proponents and opponents. Therefore, (I believe) sport team owners and the franchises themselves have, metaphorically, progressed imperialism upon the Native American philosophy. Native Americans were exploited almost from the moment Europeans arrived on this continent, pushed and shoved off their land for centuries until they were confined to the reservations that are now common across the south and midwestern parts of the United States. Nick Dewitt of the Bleacher Report responded to the issue stating: “It's been a prickly topic for years, even decades. It spans not just every professional sport, but collegiate sports as well. Depending on who you talk to, it's a stain on the organizations it affects...
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...According to the 2010 U.S. census, about 22% of our country’s 5.2 million Native Americans live on tribal lands along with reservations. The main character in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about a Native American who lives on a reservation and learns to follow his own path. The topics in this essay are Indian reservations, Indian schools and, Indians today. Some Indians on reservations are very poor, for example, “I picked up the other boot and dug in side. Man, that thing smelled like booze and fear and failure. I found a wrinkled and damp five dollar bill. “Merry Christmas,” the dad said.” This quote is on page 153. This quote made a point because, junior’s dad is an acholic and because the dad saved...
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...The forced relocation of Native Americans is one of the biggest failures of US history as the US deprived Native Americans their rights as well as their land. Ever since white settlers arrived in North America, Native Americans had been viewed as savages and “uncivilized” and were pushed west with increasing Europeans encroachment. They were considered as the “Indian problem” that the great white man should make an effort to civilize them by converting them to Christianity and reactions from the Natives varied. Some adapted English ways, and some resisted in court or militarily. President Andrew Jackson was a planter that viewed Indians to be inferior and waged brutal campaigns against Native Americans. After Jackson won the election in 1828, the first major legislation he recommended and passed...
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...June 15, 2012 Dear John Smith, I was writing to you today to express some of the feelings I have about my Native American ancestors and how the experiences that they have had throughout U.S. History have affected us in political, social, cultural issues and concerns as well. As you know, we were the first of our kind to come to “American” lands. And because we “looked” different than those other European people that came to our land, we were looked upon as the “enemy.” Many of the women in our tribes did the cultivation of numerous crops such as beans, squash, and corn; while the men of the tribes were the hunters and protectors of the tribes. And since our tribes told of our history instead of writing it down, the Europeans were able to say that they came to the “American” lands before we did. In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a the Indian Removal Act, which allowed the government to relocate Native Americans from their homelands within established states to lands west of the Mississippi River. This was to accommodate the European-American expansion into the U.S. lands. There were numerous Indian wars during the duration of the American Civil War, which were frequent up until 1890’s. There were still wars, but not as many, up until the 20th century. The transcontinental railroad brought over more non-Native into more of the tribal lands. But over a period of time the U.S. finally decided to force a series of treaties and land concessions by the tribes and helped reservations...
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...Safi Ahmad Fischer US History Oct. 29, 2014 Term Paper In 1830, in an effort to expand the United States further west, Congress issued a removal policy, putting great pressure on Native Americans to leave their ancestor’s land so various states could instead inhabit it. The government had originally tried to buy the land from the Native Americans, however, they refused to sell their sacred land, so the government felt obliged to move the Indians. Though the Removal Act was technically voluntary, most understood the Native Americans were actually being forced off of their land by extreme pressure from the government. Historians Francis Paul Prucha and Edward Pessen take opposing views on Andrew Jackson’s decision, with Prucha claiming Jackson...
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...In the article “The Native Americans of New England” published in 1637, Thomas Morton portrays Native American life in great detail in the perspective of an English colonist. His accounts offer historians insight into the habitats of the Native Americans in the 1600’s. Though most of the article features falsely portrayed opinions, it does allow us to see the lifestyles of the Native Americans. Bartolome de las Casas writes about the treatment of Indians in his book History of the Indies published in 1528. He offers a different angle on how the Spanish dealt with Native Americans. He reflects on the years that the Spanish used Native American slaves allowing historians a glimpse of the conditions of the Indians. Having Thomas Morton’s work...
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...Native Americans Throughout Thomas C Threatt Jr Ethics 125 May 4th, 2014 Jenna Schulte Native Americans Throughout * Native Americans living in the present-day United States are made up of many different distinct tribes and ethicize many of who have survive as intact political communities. Native American throughout history has had an impact on each aspect of the United States history and growth. The experiences that this group of Americans has be blight in their eyes or prosperous in others view. In their eyes they have seen, genocide, slavery, and robbery of their people from Europeans that found this native land. From the beginning when Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492. He made several trips to and from Europe and Hispaniola. By the time European settlers had started to arrive around 1500-1600, all the Native Americans living in the east of the Mississippi River part of the United States had been killed off by introducing them to new diseases from decades of exploration of European countries. Since around the end of the 1500s, the European travelers that migrated to America led to hundreds of years of adjustment and fighting Native Americans and American Colonies. As settlers started to expand west; Pilgrims and settlers began to come into disagreements with the Plains, Basin and Western Tribes. They carried out resistance against American way of life for many years after the Civil War. Indian Wars was vast in numbers until the 1900...
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...of a Native American woman. Although I did not grow up on the Navajo Reservation like she did, she made sure my sisters and I understood what our ethnicity entitled us. As a Native woman, I was expected to learn our language, because our language defined our tribe. I was expected to respectfully follow our beliefs and traditions, because our beliefs and traditions made us distinct and allowed us, as woman, to keep the tribe in order. It was the woman’s job to make sure our tribe or family represented well. And lastly, I was expected to always fight for what I believed in. I was always afraid about the responsibility of fighting back and standing up for my beliefs. Nevertheless, when it comes to my people, I believe it is my place and my right to inform American citizens of the effects caused by the United States Government. Native Americans aren’t as prosperous as they used to be and being contained on reservations has only deteriorated our people, our land and our entitlement to justice and protection. There has been a rise of many destroying factors on reservations, such as abuse of alcohol and the rise of brutal crimes, but the most important and overlooked is the crimes against Native women. Justice on Native American reservations requires a fight. The backbones of most tribal communities are continually and increasingly being taken advantage of. With tribal authority ranging from little to none, Native women on reservations have become targets of attack by non-Natives. To...
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...The Native Americans were very worried that the United States would infringe upon their agreements and takeover their promised lands. According to Perdue and Green, various reasons accounted for Indian complaints, including the states that pushed for the intrusion of Indian lands and the defense against Indian retaliation to protect their homes. Georgia encourages their citizens to invade and inhabit the Native lands. This caused much controversy. These encouragements directly contravened the treaties that promised the rights to the land to the Natives (Perdue 24). One example of Indian-American conflict in Georgia was the infringement...
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...The process of people moving into the new world that is the Americas where the United State lies began centuries ago and has been an ongoing process to the current day. This paper examines the origins of their Native Americans. This paper also explores their journey into the Americas as the first Immigrants. Their settlement patterns and ways of life will also be examined. The paper also explores how the Native Americans in the Americas fared during the European conquest of the region that is currently identified as the America. Euro-Indian relations, conflicts and their aftermath is also a focus point of the paper, which culminates into the current state of affairs of the Native American community in the Americas. Origins of the Native Americans There are diverse sources of information on the origins and history of the Native Americans. They include oral history passed down through generations. This oral history is as diverse as the Indian Nations. Different tribes have different folklore to explain their origins. For instance, the Haida who reside in British Columbia say that man was shaken out of a clam shell by a raven. The Navajo of Arizona say they sprung out of the ground after which there was a time of great wandering and searching for a home. Almost all Indian nations have...
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...Native American Communications Abstract After reviewing several clips of videos about the lives of Sioux Native American’s that are living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, I realized things are way different than I pictured, or heard stories of. The living conditions are poor, almost to the point of uninhabitable. Two or three families are sometimes stuffed in one home, which might only have one bedroom, and the homes are falling to pieces. Not all Native American’s own casinos and have a lot of money to loan out as depicted on television commercials. American Indians living standards are hard to imagine and do not come close to the rest of America. They have an 80% alcoholic rate, a 70-80% unemployment rate, the teenage suicide rate is 150% higher and their infant mortality rate is 300% higher than the national US average for those age groups, as well as a high percentage of gang members called the “Wild Boyz” (ABC News and Hearts, 2011). Keywords: pine ridge reservation Social Class Affects the Communication of Native Americans The Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, is one of the poorest areas in the U.S. As MSNBC says: “there is virtually no infrastructure, few jobs and no major economic engines. Families are destabilized by substance abuse and want. Children often go hungry and adults die young, and the reservation schools are one of the lowest-performing set of schools in the country”...
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