Research Paper On Native American Genocide

Genocide, it’s violent and bares sadness, anger and misery. Genocide is the killing of a large number of people. This often happens to those of a particular group such as a religious group or nationality. In this case, it would be a genocide run against the Native Americans. According to United To End Genocide, about 10 million Native Americans inhabited the country by the time European explorers arrived. By around 1900, it was estimated that there were only less than 300,000 Native Americans living in what is now the United States. When the Europeans came to America, they took many of the Native Americans’ homes and killed many of them. This was wrong for the Europeans to do because as the population decreased, most of the Natives’ culture, history, and, of course, innocent lives have been lost.

Culture is very important when it comes to learning about different kinds of groups of people.

The people’s culture is what represents who they are as a whole. There were multiple Native American tribes and each tribe had their own culture and traditions. When the colonists came and slayed many of the tribes, many of the tribes’ population lost their culture. According to Running Strong for American Indian Youth, children from Native American families were taken away to Christian boarding schools and were often disciplined for doing anything related to their tribes’ traditions and culture. These children, who were supposed to be the next generation of the Native Americans, were taught to forget their origin. Without the support of what was supposedly the next generation of Natives, the culture and traditions that were passed down were now long gone and forgotten. Since there is not much we can gather about the Natives tribes back then, all we can learn about them are the objects they left behind or, at least, not lost and

destroyed.

Forgetting the tribes culture is not the only thing lost. It’s the history of these Natives that is also forgotten. We don’t know for sure what these Native Americans have been through or how they came to populate the Americas. All we know is that these people have come here long, long before the white men came along. The Natives are believed to have set foot in the Americas back during the ice age period by traveling across a land-bridge that connected Asia to America, according to All About History. We don’t know what the Natives have been through during those many years of life in the Americas before the Europeans came along. Their ways of life when they first came here, the battles they have faced before the white men came, what sacrifices they had made, and the things they have created in the past is now unknown to us. Those who knew the stories of the first Native Americans are now long gone.

Finally, many innocent lives were lost. Native American men, women, and children died when the white men came to the Americas. Most of the Native Americans died of diseases that the Europeans brought when they first moved here. According to PBS, it is estimated that about 90% of Natives died of smallpox, the flu, and other diseases that were brought by the Europeans. The Natives also lost their lives trying to fight against the colonists that were moving here for the sake of their home land. Unfortunately, the Natives lost. Their homes were looted and destroyed, and they were either forced into slavery or were killed. A group of Natives, the Cherokee, were forced to leave their homes and were sent to the western lands. During the march there, about 4,000 of the Cherokee people died due to the cold, hunger, and diseases. The trail they made towards the west is now known as the Trail of Tears.