In order to control even more the natives, another Indian Appropriation Act was passed in 1871. It said that Indian tribes were no longer seen as an indepedent nation but that all Indians were just individuals, like everyone. But also that they were "wards" of the federal government. This obviously made the natives less powerful, because as a tribe, they were numerous so they had more power and they could have treaties with the government. But with the act, it did not work anymore.
READING QUESTIONS Day 128: Native Americans and the New Republic: Q. Why did the Americans want the natives to peacefully conform to their new American ways? A. Q. What did the Indians want to do when the Americans asked them to peacefully conform to their civilized ways? A. The Indians wanted to keep their Indian culture and traditions, while still civilizing themselves.
Native Americans who emigrated from Europe perceived the Indians as a friendly society with whom they dwelt with in harmony. While Native Americans were largely intensive agriculturalists and entrepreneurial in nature, the Indians were hunters and gatherers who earned a livelihood predominantly as nomads. By the 19th century, irrefutable territories i.e. the areas around River Mississippi were under exclusive occupation by the Indians. At the time, different Indian tribes such as the Chickasaws, Creeks, and Cherokees had adapted a sedentary lifestyle and practiced small-scale agriculture. According to the proponents of removal, the Indians were to move westwards into forested lands in order to generate additional space for development through agricultural production (Memorial of the Cherokee Indians).
I think there are four main connections that can be made between this piece and the U.S policies in 1830, and all four points are about the four distinct groups present in the piece. The group on the far left is putting up a cross, which symbolizes both how Europeans moved west to spread Christianity and also symbolizes that the actions taken were made in the name of Christianity. In 1830 people, including Jeremiah Evarts were still trying to convert the Native Americans; despite trying to convert the natives, Evarts was firmly against the Indian Removal Act. I think that the piece above represents the conflicting nature of Evarts argument that the natives were people; however, they still needed to assimilate to a certain degree before they
The Indian Removal act was a complete step in the wrong direction for our Nation. This act gave federal government power to relocate the Native Americans in the East. This occurred in the West of the Mississippi River in about 1830-1840. About 60,000 natives suffered from the Indian removal Act. Americans should be against Indian Removal Act because it was a huge event of discrimination, removed the Native Americans harshly and violently from their land, and treated Natives unfairly.
The Trail of Tears was named so because of its devastating effects to the Cherokee nation. They were removed for one main reason, so their land could be used by the white men. Nobody had the right to take away their land. The land had been theirs since before the Europeans came and now they were being forcibly removed from it. On top of that, soldiers forced them to travel in the winter, causing thousands of Native Americans to die.
The Native American’s lives were changed and switched around drastically in the 16th century when Europeans came to the land they called home and colonized on their land. Some Native Americans lived on the coast, since the Europeans landed their first means that they were affected by this colonization first. First, Europeans took their resources. They cut
The greed of the white man grew and the first thing that came into his mind was: ‘We must obtain this land at any cost.’” (500 Nations, Part 3). From that day on, the removal of Indians grew and grew. Many Native Americans were pushed from their homes and sent on treks where hundreds and thousands of Indians
The Progressive Movement believed that Indian culture was inferior to white culture, which led to boarding schools, reservations, and suppression of Indian culture. Although well intended, the Progressive policies resulted in loss of identity and led to the ultimate failure of Native American education. The Progressive Era was from the 1890s to the 1920s, and it occurred all over the United States. The Progressive Movement was an attempt to fix the corrupted government, break up monopolies, and improve problems in society. The Progressives thought that the Indians were problematic to white society who believed that land was sacred, and the whites felt that land was to use.
They were forced to leave their homes to move somewhere they did not know about. Also how badly they were treated and the war against one another unlike the Jews the Native Americans were not put in death camps but they were placed somewhere they had no idea about that area so in rebellion of not accepting this forced change the Native Americans decided to fight back against the Americans to get their ways and land back to the way it was before. During the war against Americans the Native Americans did lose a lot of lived like mother’s, children, men, women, people just in general who had loved one same as the
There were very few Native Americans and they were being killed off because they were living on land that supposedly needed to be built on. In Touring Indian Country it describes the fear of Native Americans that many had when traveling west, but was not actually the case because there were very few tribes with a meager population. The Touring Indian Country exemplifies people’s fear of Native Americans and the lengths people took to destroy or stay away from Native Americans. The Native Americans population was dwindling because of the diseases that were spread by the Europeans, and because of the advanced technology of Europeans in which gave them guns instead of bows and arrows. The Indian Removal Act also supports this idea because it removed around 50,000 Native Americans (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and others from their home) to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma).
The People against Native Americans As new people come to America and begin to settle, Native Americans were pushed farther and farther away from their homeland. Their land was taken from them and their freedoms were long gone. White settlers had created restrictions on their land, trade, and freedom which are still in effect today.
The Native American Indians are an important part of the culture of the United States. Their people have lived on this continent for thousands of years and today their numbers are dwindling. They lived on this land with little disruption and discourse. The men and women had typical roles and they were content and established. Before the European settlers arrived and changed the lives of the Native American Indians, the Indians felt one with the land and believed that land was not to be owned by anyone.
Machinery, transportation and other advancements led to the industrialization of lands once roamed and owned by Native tribes. Colonization was moving at an even greater pace and that meant that the Native American tribes were going to suffer even more. The more land was needed for industrialization, the more land the Native tribes lost and the more the tribes had to move and eventually Reservations became the norm for Native Americans to live out their lives. The way of life for the American Indian was over. Their lands were taken from them but their spirit remains strong until this day.
