Native American Mistreatment Essay

Insult to the Native Americans
Native Americans lived on the land that is now called America, but when white settlers started to take over the land, many lives of Native Americans were lost. Today, many people believe that the things that have been done and are being done right now, is an honor or an insult to the Natives. The choices that were made and being made were an insult to the Native Americans that live and used to live on this land, by being insulted by land policies, boardings schools and modern issues, all in which contain mistreatment of the Natives. The power that the settlers and the people who governed them had, overcame the power of the Natives so the settlers took advantage and changed the Natives way of life to the

ones that settlers wanted them. Meaning the whites used their power to do well for themselves, but insult the Natives who live on the land.
Land policies were unfair for the Natives and were a method of mistreatment due to the upper hand power of the settlers. In the Indian Removal Act, the Federal Government were given permission to make treaties with the Natives, even though the natives should be the ones to enforce it for the better of themselves. The whites would use this act to create more valuable lands for themselves, and would make the Native Americans move to the Western lands. Same goes for the Trail of Tears, a treaty called Echota, would be enforced to move the Cherokees to move to an Indian territory they did not know of, the whites had made this territory for the Natives.This is an insult to the natives who originally live and own the lands because the whites were the ones were invading the native owned lands, but the whites believed that the natives were the ones invading their “new” found lands. Such events were led by the whites because they had more power in terms of gunpowder, and they had the upper hand of the natives not being able to read the foreign written treaties.
Boarding schools also play a big part of the Native Americans being insulted by the government and had the power to make things happen to and at the boarding school.

The whites took the Native American children with the purpose to assimilate the children to the white culture. They would force all the native children to choose white names, cut their hair like a white man or woman, and gave them a strict schedule to follow along, they were also not allowed to speak their native language or else they would be punished heavily. Even though this action was for a good purpose, the white people ended up killing many of the Native children, which broke the promise they had made to the children’s parents back at the reservation. These events had occurred because the whites had the power to control the children to do, and follow the ways of the whites.

Finally, modern issues show that even till today. insults to the Native Americans are happening because of the power the government holds. Modern issues that the Natives Americans face today, are the poor conditions that the reservations they live. There is lack of easy access supply of water and there is hardly and jobs to make and earn money from. Lack of jobs cause some of the Natives to leave the reservations and seek work in other states to be able to provide enough living for their families. Their houses are really run down and small, many insects infest their

homes.

The ways of approaching the Native Americans is an insult to them, and insults are made because of the power that the government holds. Insults were made, to the Natives, by the settlers who made the Natives move out of their lands, due to the land policies, and the power of the boarding schools caused the Native children to be forced to take part of the assimilation to the white culture. Also, the modern issues of the reservations that are happening today, is an insult to the Natives living today and the ones who have passed away. Which is only happening because of the government who is using their upper hand power to not support the Natives. These all lead to big the answer, that the approaches are an insult and it’s an insult because of the greater power the whites have and had over the Native Americans.