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The Changing Role Of Native Americans In The 20th Century

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At the time many people were very deep rooted racists. They didn't like that other people that didn't follow their ruling or look like them could have all that untouched land when they needed it for better things. They also were very easy to manipulate, which was the down fall for many that just agreed to so much bad things other were doing, just because they knew how to manipulate them many people got played at that time. The rasicm at the time was unbelivable and it wasn't just blacks taking all of it. Indians had already, for them, been a nusiance and with many more Americans moving westward it was almost inevitable what they were going to do to them. Power hungry and land hungry people began pushing and pushing until finally many Natives broke. Many packed up and head westward without a problem, wanting to avoid any sort of conflict, many took in upon them selves to leave before things got to ugly. Others waited, signed treaties, and got manipulated into leaving as the whites kept on pushing. Others fought, eventually, as those whites that were power hungry, completly …show more content…

They had things planned and led many men over the decades to eliminate the Natives that stayed. "Jefferson and Monroe argued that the Indian tribes in the Southeast should exchange their land for lands west of the Mississippi River" (Randolph,Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830) Although they didn't make this happen it just shows just how far back they actually started thinking about throwing Indians off of their territory. People in those days absolutely hated that these savages had rights when they didn't even follow their simple rules and religous beliefs. Plus land they could be using for expantion and agricultural uses was just being thrown away as many Natives didn't seize the soil for uses that the white Americans could have, would have, and did need

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