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The Mistakes Of Native Americans In The 1930's

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One of the direst mistakes the United States has made is forcibly putting Native-Americans into reservations. Even after those excruciating painful years trying to adapt to a new culture, some of Native-Americans go through a lot of pain. Through all those years they have developed a type of bad habit or mental hardship such as alcoholism, PTSD, and even depression. Though they did have many more hardships during the Indian reservations, they were forced out of their own land, tried to erase their culture, killed them if they didn’t listen and many other terrible punishments. Native Americans still do not have their lands back and they have been ignored for many years, there has only been a small amount of support but it has not changed anything …show more content…

Native Americans have fought for their land but Americans were too brutal and forceful to them that they had to give their land to keep their people safe. Not all the Native Americans land were given away by force but some of the Native Americans peacefully made a deal with Americans to keep themselves safe and secure. This essay is to talk about some of the reasons as to why this is one of the many dire mistakes the United States has made.
The plan to make Indian reservations started in the 1930 when President Andrew Jackson signed the “Indian Removal Act” on May 28, 1930. This act was to make the Native-American Tribes to surrender and give up their land or else they would have killed more of their people. Jackson believed that were not intelligent enough and needed to be “helped”, “He believed Indians had “neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire for improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.”1 How can taking their land forcibly, threatning their …show more content…

This is what you call cultural genocide, the fact that they forced “American” culture on to them and taught them about it is enough to call it a genocide. After that they even made laws that changed their tribe’s legal status. This act also offered 160 acres of land to each Native-American family but the land was non-fertile to grow food. They were also not allowed to sell the land and were not considered citizens of the United States until after 25 years later, “Each Native American family was offered 160 acres of tribal land to own outright. Although the land could not be sold for 25 years, these new landowners could farm it for profit like other farmers in the

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