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For this essay, the question under investigation is: “To what extent did the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 impact Native American Tribes and their culture?” The number of tribes impacted by this act is too vast for us to investigate them all, so the focus of this research question will be on the Five Civilized Tribes to make the subject less broad. Lifestyles of the Native Americans in the Five Civilized Tribes before and after the Dawes Act will be investigated to get a better understanding of the life and cultural changes these people endured. The impacts include the splitting up of land and the redistribution of the land to individual tribe members, and the introduction of "white culture," such as farming, to the Native Americans.
More indians tribes were destroyed during war with the whites, and since the Native Americans did not have as much technology, food, and medicine as the whites, they lost a lot of warriors. Many Native Americans would leave their tribes in search for food only to be confronted and ambushed by white soldiers. Some Native Americans chose to surrender rather than to be moved to a different location. After the Indian and American War, the General Allotment Act was passed, also known as The Dawes Act of 1887. The Dawes Act granted Native Americans land allotments.
Native Americans refer to a group of individuals who descended from the indigenous communities that lived in Columbia. The increase in the population started in the 15th Century were European started migrating to America. Full control of these ancient occupants by the United States Government has been blamed for the suffering and poverty they live in today.
This led to the virtually effortless Euro-American acquisition of reservations. When first acquiring horses, many tribes, like the Crows, abandoned their farms because they had such high expectations of equestrianism. The Crows’ population began to decrease so they desperately allied with the Americans, who soon adopted them into their armies. The Incompatible Element: The Horse among the Eastern Plains Villagers
Throughout the nineteenth century, most white settlers viewed Native Americans as lesser people and who were no better than animals. However, the thoughts about the survivability of Native Americans were in sharp contrast. Many commentators believed that American Indians were unable to evolve to sustain their prehistoric lifestyle and would soon die off. Others thought American Indians were instead able to endure the rapid change and would survive. With rumors and myths spreading rapidly, it became abundantly clear that in the nineteenth century Native Americans were widely viewed as a dying race although there were the occasional reports on the success and survivability of American Indian groups.
(1) Osage native beliefs in the things they hold sacred • Michael Horse is noted for prescient dreams of danger that allow him to warn potential victims of impending disaster. But his gifts begin to elude him because there had been many murders in short time of Indian by white people, he fails to dream of Grace Blanket’s impending death or to predict the imminent approach of rain (24-39). • Osage people believe in dreams and their meanings. They brought their dreams to Michael horse to know their meanings.
From colonial times until the end of the Indian Wars in 1890, the people in America went through a series of unfair and unfortunate events. Mainly for the Indians which are also called the first peoples. These events could have been handled with much more consideration for the Indians. There are many times when the Americans went too far including the Removal Act of 1830, the Reservation System, and the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians.
The French and Indian War impacted the United States relation with the Native Americans by having the Native choose sides, and mistrust the whites. The French and Indian War lasted from 1756 to 1763, and it was mainly a war between Britain and France. Britain and France had a rivalry against each other during this time, and they were fighting on who could get more land in America. Different native tribes allied themselves with either France or Britain because it took place on their territory, but later the alliance broke. Many natives “were never again in a position to deal with their white rivals on terms of military or political equality,”
Firstly, the buffalo were hunted at an accelerated rate after the native Indians were introduced to horses and learned to ride horseback. The Cheyenne and Sioux became “deadly efficient buffalo hunters,” nearly extinguishing the vast bison herd that had lured them onto the plains in the first place.” When the white pioneers arrived at the plains they too hunted the buffalo and did so wastefully. The less buffalo available to hunt the more they were at odds with one another, tribe against tribe, and tribes against the “wasichus” (white people).
The slaughter of the bison played a big factor in the Plains Indian’s removal to the reservations. The bison was a way of life for the nomadic tribes of the plains; it was a source of food, shelter, fuel, and a central part of their religion and rituals (Roark 540). While a way of life for the Indians, bison for the white Americans were not. Even though the army took credit for the conquest of the Plains Indians, it was mostly the destruction of the bison herd that the victory is due to (Roark 540). In 1867, more than five thousand Comanches, Kiowas, and Southern Arapahos gathered at Medicine Lodge Creek in Kansas to negotiate a treaty, and signed the treaty agreeing to move to reservations (Roark 540).
Also, the extinction of buffalo affected them negatively and the domination of the whites disrupted their surroundings. The Westward Expansion impacted the Native Americans land and culture. Before the Americans started coming to the West and settling, the Native Americans had a peaceful life. Twenty-eight tribes lived in the Great
The American Revolution lasted six years and the impacts of it were everlasting(Schultz, 2010). The effects were felt by every group of people in North America and many worldwide. Even though George Washington had all of his troops vaccinated against smallpox, the colonists were not so fortunate and as a results some estimates are that as many as one hundred and thirty thousand people died from this dreaded disease. This loss of life combined with the divisions among the colonies into those loyal to Britain and those who wanted freedom would forever change the way of life for the colonists.
The removal of the native Americans from their land, and the boarding school movement, which is when many native children were separated from their families, stripped from their language and often got abused by white. They lost their home, family because most American thought that Indian should integrated to their white culture, so it 'll be easier for them. The lost of family play a big impact in Native American life from generation to generation. Native America are still one of the United States most economically disadvantaged population. Not only that, most of their land are owned and managed by the federal government.
Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less than respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land, and to achieve this goal, the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history, and the US government made many treatments with the Native Americans, making big changes on the Indian nation. Native Americans wanted to live peacefully with the white men, but the result of treatments and agreements was not quite peaceful. This precedent of mistreatment of minorities began with Andrew Jackson’s indian removal policies to the tribes of Oklahoma (specifically the Cherokee indians) in 1829 because of the lack of respect given to the indians during the removal laws.
“We do not want riches. We want peace and love.” War Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux. The early European settlers were only interested in trade and riches and could care less about peace and love, which is the main reason why American Indians were mistreated so badly in the past. Although American Indians shouldn't blame the people of today for their mistreatment of the past, the frustration American Indian’s feel about their mistreatment of the past is valid.
