American Plains Indians

women’s rights in the United States at the Seneca Falls Convention. However, women remained voiceless, unappreciated, and taken advantage of in numerous ways in society.
With unfortunate labor conditions in motion, Women received the worst of it. Finally out of their homes, Women were literally worked to exhaustion as they faced unimaginable working hours and little pay. In 1844, we see the first labor union form for women, known as the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association. Images such as the highly praised, Gibson Girl, displayed the working women, in style, and personified the feminine ideal of new beauty. On the other hand, women did gain the right to more memberships in Women’s Clubs, yet what is this act in comparison to the right to

American Plains Indians in the nineteenth century have continually been pushed further and further west as the nation expanded westward. Reservation systems, European settlers, and American expansionists attempted to build friendly relations with the Native Tribes yet were far from accomplishing so. The belief that America was to expand westward under the fate of God led American Indians to become angered and routy as they one by one, were forced to move off American land leaving their family, friends and homes. This removal act made the Indians isolated and feels as though American citizens were trying to replace their culture with “white”, “American” heritage. Knowing so, around the latter half of the 19th century, the Plain Indians were forced into a completely new lifestyle both due to America’s new technology and government, which dismantled their tribal

The main social issue was the government’s attempt to assimilate the Indians and to eliminate their cultural background as a tribe. For instance, the government discouraged hunting among the tribes, a key element to the Plain Indian’s culture and way of life. Instead, agricultural techniques were to be adopted among their community, most specifically farming. Another abrupt change for the Indians was the imposing of the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act forced the Indians to live with only their family, a more individualistic way of life. Once again, this was far from the Indian culture, where they were used to living in community houses. In summary, America flourished with their new abundance of land, however, the American Indians were treated as animals, they were wound up into allotted territories, trained into a new way of life, and forced to develop new cultural customs. Peace making and equality was apparently never in the contract for the