Essay On Native American Vanishing

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In the late 1800s, Native Americans were “vanishing” to extinction, however that is untrue by Americans greediness for more Native American lands. At first, the Americans when in conflict with the Indians usually wanted peace, but after 1869, they began to brutally massacring any Indians- men, women, and children . After the defeat of many Indian tribes, the Americans came in and started to implement reservation where they can only stay in certain areas. With many of them illiterate most of them went to boarding school and became whiter. Many Native Americans had an unfair life where many try to stay alive and not vanished from society, in contrast imperialist Americans were afflicting pain on the poor Indians by killing them and not supplying them …show more content…

In the photograph of Joe Black Fox, 1898 (Kasebier, Gertrude) it shows a how a Indian can be a white person from smoking a cigarette or speaking English . This here proves the vanishing of the loss of identity/language, were these Indians have to speak English, act white, and possibly dismiss their culture, but some didn't . The Indian identity was vanishing by boarding schools, but the Indian culture/ tradition still remains. In the end the Native Americans wanted to survive by any means by either defending their lands, leaving there given lands, and trying to pass on their language to the next generation. With all of these sources you could say either way that they were vanished in some ways or not. A similar thing happens in history too, and that was the Germans arresting Polish Jews in 1939 and putting them into ghettos, in this ghettos it was all corrupt and disorganized. Also with this reservation , there was some resistance of Jews trying to leave, the Gestapo-brutal police force, shot them and thought their kids' state run education. In conclusion the Indians wanted to survive and not to be a puppet for

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