For many years Native American removal has caused a lot of pain and suffering for many Indians in America. How we have treated Native Americans in the past is an embarrassment to our history. Removing Native Americans from their land when we first settled here was wrong because we caused them a lot of hardships, took something from them that wasn’t ours to take, and in the end we all the pain and suffering we caused them was really for nothing. People still believe today that taking away their land was the right thing to do because they think that we were technically the first people to settle here so it was rightfully ours to take. How people thought about the Native Americans when we first settled just shows you how ignorant we were and explains a lot of why we did what we did to African American slaves as well. Native American cruelty dates back all the way to when America was first discovered. The Spanish were the first to arrive here in the United States when Columbus accidently landed here while searching for a route to Asia. He thought that he had actually discovered the Indies and died believing that he had. It wasn’t until after his death that the Spanish discovered that this wasn’t so and renamed it the New World. Soon after, the Spanish and English began to bring people over and start to settle here. They first had to deal with the Native Americans. Even all the way back then Native Americans were treated poorly. The Spanish and English called them savages and made them leave the lands where they were settled so that they could take their land for their own and begin to build their empires. Over the next couple of years the English began to treat the Native Americans a lot worse. They began to kill many of the Indi... ... middle of paper ... ...ant. We caused them pain and suffering for nothing because even though it took a long time we finally realized the error of our ways and gave much needed freedom back to the Native Americans. Taking away the Indians land for good and making them move to reservations was wrong in so many ways. Letting them live with us only if they adopted our ways and religion was just one of the many wrong things that we did to the Native Americans. Today we criticize other countries that do the same thing that we did many years ago to the Native Americans. Most people have learned from the mistakes of the past but a majority of them have not. Racism against Native Americans has cost them their lives and culture which is an embarrassment in our history. Hopefully in the years to come people will soon begin to understand why treating the Native Americans so bad were wrong.
The American Indians were promised change with the American Indian policy, but as time went on no change was seen. “Indian reform” was easy to promise, but it was not an easy promise to keep as many white people were threatened by Indians being given these rights. The Indian people wanted freedom and it was not being given to them. Arthur C. Parker even went as far as to indict the government for its actions. He brought the charges of: robbing a race of men of their intellectual life, of social organization, of native freedom, of economic independence, of moral standards and racial ideals, of his good name, and of definite civic status (Hoxie 97). These are essentially what the American peoples did to the natives, their whole lives and way of life was taken away,
The Trail of Tears was one of the examples of when America treated Native Americans terrible. This event was absolutely terrible. We forced the Indians to walk to the West because white settlers wanted to grow more cotton. There was actually a law that let America remove all indians to the West, so that they can get more land to grow cotton. Now this wasn’t just a normal peaceful walk. These people were dying of starvation, most of them wasn’t able to keep their belongings, and there was many sicknesses. This 1,200 mile walk led to over 5,000 Cherokees dying.
People know about the conflict between the Indian's cultures and the settler's cultures during the westward expansion. Many people know the fierce battles and melees between the Indians and the settlers that were born from this cultural conflict. In spite of this, many people may not know about the systematic and deliberate means employed by the U.S. government to permanently rid their new land of the Indians who had lived their own lives peacefully for many years. There are many strong and chilling reasons and causes as to why the settlers started all of this perplexity in the first place. There was also a very strong and threatening impact on the Native Americans through the schooling that stained the past and futures of Native Americans not only with blood but also with emotion. It was all a slow and painful plan of the "white man" to hopefully get rid of the Indian culture, forever. The Native American schools were created in an attempt to destroy the Native American way of life, their culture, beliefs and tradi...
Unfortunately, this great relationship that was built between the natives and the colonists of mutual respect and gain was coming to a screeching halt. In the start of the 1830s, the United States government began to realize it’s newfound strength and stability. It was decided that the nation had new and growing needs and aspirations, one of these being the idea of “Manifest Destiny”. Its continuous growth in population began to require much more resources and ultimately, land. The government started off as simply bargaining and persuading the Indian tribes to push west from their homeland. The Indians began to disagree and peacefully object and fight back. The United States government then felt they had no other option but to use force. In Indian Removal Act was signed by Andrew Jackson on May 18, 1830. This ultimately resulted in the relocation of the Eastern tribes out west, even as far as to the edge of the Great Plains. A copy of this act is laid out for you in the book, Th...
In May 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forced Native American tribes to move west. Some Indians left swiftly, while others were forced to to leave by the United States Army. Some were even taken away in chains. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, strongly reinforced this act. In the Second State of the Union Address, Jackson advocated his Indian Policy. There was controversy as to whether the removal of the Native Americans was justified under the administration of President Andrew Jackson. In my personal opinion, as a Native American, the removal of the tribes was not in any way justified.
Most all ethnicities and cultures have been prosecuted at one time or another from an oppressing source. In the case of the Native Americans, it was the English coming in and taking their land right from underneath them. As the new colonies of the cohesive United States of America expanded, they ran into the territories of the then referred to Indians. These people were settled down south on the east coast, for example Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and the Carolinas. America obtained this land through the Louisiana Purchase, where they bought it from France. The Native Americans were already there before anyone, yet the big power countries bargained with their land. The Native Americans did not live the way the American democracy did, and they
The trail of tears was a hideous harsh horrible time that the Native Americans will not forget the 1830s about 100,000 Native Americans peacefully lived on 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 of akers. They have been on this land generations before the wight men arrived. There was gold found in Gorga and the land was for ital. They used huge cotton plantations because the people would get rich off of them. In 1830 Andrew Jackson privily sinned the removal act. Te removal act gave the Government the power to trade the land for the land that the Native Americans were on. The Native Americans did not want to move, but the precedent sent troops to force the removal. Solders who looted there homes traveled 15,000 Cherokees, and gunpoint marched over 12,000
There has always been a big debate on whether the Cherokee Indians should have or should not have been removed from the land they resided on. Although the common consensus of the whites was for removal, and for the Cherokees it was against removal, there were some individuals on each side that disagreed with their groups’ decision. The Cherokee Indians should have been removed from their homeland because the Cherokees would not have been able to survive on their own with the way they were living, they would not have been able to exist amidst a white population, and if they were removed, the whites would have helped them create a new and prosperous civilization.
Although the Declaration of Independence represents a milestone in American history, in 1776 this event was only significant for the white men who had taken over the lands of the New World. The reason why it was written that “all men are created equal” was because the founding fathers had a narrow definition of who qualified as a human, considering that Native Americans are addressed in this document as “merciless Indian savages.” This was further proved by Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forcefully removed Native tribes from their ancestral homes. Despite the efforts of the Indian tribes to fight Jackson’s removal policy, and even if the government had proposed a less cruel and fairer plan to make use of the Indian lands, the core issue remained on the moral excuse used by Jackson and the government to justify the dehumanization of Indians and the forced appropriation of
Over the course of history, there have been many different views of Native Americans, or Indians, as many have referred to them. Some have written about them in a positive and respectful manner while others have seen them as pure evil that waged war and killed innocent men, women, and children. No matter what point of view one takes, though, one thing is clear and that is if it were not for these people the early settlers would not have survived their first year in the new land now called the United States of America. In short, it is my belief that the various authors’ viewpoints are simply a reflection of the circumstances of their particular situation. Nevertheless, one question remains: Were the Native Americans good or evil people?
There were several motives for the removal of the Indians from their lands, to include racism and land lust. Since they first arrived, the white Americans hadn’t been too fond of the Native Americans. They were thought to be highly uncivilized and they had to go. In his letter to Congress addressing the removal of the Indian tribes, President Jackson states the following:
...essfully ran them out of their village. The Natives won their land and way of life back from Spanish rule. The atrocities that the Natives faced was not because they did anything wrong to the Spanish, it was because the Spanish did not respect the indigenous peoples and believed they could treat them in anyway they desired.
The Indian Removal Act was an unjust act that took away the rights of innocent natives. The Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to give unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Native american lands inside the existing state borders at the time. Some tribes left peacefully, while most resisted. The tribes that resisted wound up leaving by force, even when deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. These actions took away the rights of Native Americans, the Indian Removal Act was neither ethical nor justified.
My first reason why we should give their land back is because they were here first.Their land is more than just a piece of land, it means something to them it’s where they buried their ancestors and they were the ones who started to plant things and build house and other things.a quote from an articles Native Americans were here first. “We took their land while creating reservations for their surviving people to live on. It seems fair to most of us that we now owe them some form of reparations in order to make up for the past. After all, the Native Americans were the ones who gave up their lands to us”.Also These indian were vulnerable when their land was taken they also lost their dignity
Some might argue that the U.S should give back land to the native american groups, However this isn’t true because The best way for the United States to make up for injustices is to make reparations payments and also provide words of apology to Native American groups for what has happened in the past. My first reason is that i think the U.S should pay back for reparations,e.t.c… , my second reason is that I believe that The U.S should give an a apology and also do something like I said before but this time just provide reparation payments to every surviving internee that experienced ‘’camp for Japanese-American internees during World War II’’ and my third and final reason is that there should be less assigning blame or pointing out racism