For many years Native American removal has caused a lot of pain and suffering for many Indians in America. How we have treated Native Americans in the past is an embarrassment to our history. Removing Native Americans from their land when we first settled here was wrong because we caused them a lot of hardships, took something from them that wasn’t ours to take, and in the end we all the pain and suffering we caused them was really for nothing. People still believe today that taking away their land was the right thing to do because they think that we were technically the first people to settle here so it was rightfully ours to take. How people thought about the Native Americans when we first settled just shows you how ignorant we were and explains a lot of why we did what we did to African American slaves as well. Native American cruelty dates back all the way to when America was first discovered. The Spanish were the first to arrive here in the United States when Columbus accidently landed here while searching for a route to Asia. He thought that he had actually discovered the Indies and died believing that he had. It wasn’t until after his death that the Spanish discovered that this wasn’t so and renamed it the New World. Soon after, the Spanish and English began to bring people over and start to settle here. They first had to deal with the Native Americans. Even all the way back then Native Americans were treated poorly. The Spanish and English called them savages and made them leave the lands where they were settled so that they could take their land for their own and begin to build their empires. Over the next couple of years the English began to treat the Native Americans a lot worse. They began to kill many of the Indi... ... middle of paper ... ...ant. We caused them pain and suffering for nothing because even though it took a long time we finally realized the error of our ways and gave much needed freedom back to the Native Americans. Taking away the Indians land for good and making them move to reservations was wrong in so many ways. Letting them live with us only if they adopted our ways and religion was just one of the many wrong things that we did to the Native Americans. Today we criticize other countries that do the same thing that we did many years ago to the Native Americans. Most people have learned from the mistakes of the past but a majority of them have not. Racism against Native Americans has cost them their lives and culture which is an embarrassment in our history. Hopefully in the years to come people will soon begin to understand why treating the Native Americans so bad were wrong.
The Trail of Tears was one of the examples of when America treated Native Americans terrible. This event was absolutely terrible. We forced the Indians to walk to the West because white settlers wanted to grow more cotton. There was actually a law that let America remove all indians to the West, so that they can get more land to grow cotton. Now this wasn’t just a normal peaceful walk. These people were dying of starvation, most of them wasn’t able to keep their belongings, and there was many sicknesses. This 1,200 mile walk led to over 5,000 Cherokees dying.
It really made me sympathize with what the natives went through. I gained an appreciation for President George Washington and the sectary of war Henry Knox when they wanted peace with the Indians and to buy the land from the natives that settlers illegally settled in. I was disappointed to read that Knox and many others thought of the natives as uncivilized and wanted to civilize them so that they would integrate into society so the settlers could take their land. I think it was wrong to see the natives as uncivilized and want to civilize them to take their land. I was disturbed that Andrew Jackson approved and signed the Indian Removal Act because I consider the Act immoral. I think it is unjust for a group to consider themselves superior to another group, like the settlers did, and force the inferior group to
Today there are more than a million Indians in America in all phases of development, some still attempting to adjust to American civilization, others completely Americanized and some still holding on to their Native heritage. There are 300 federal Indian reservations and about 21 state reservations present in the United States today. These reservations are considered sovereign nations, however these people still poses American citizenship. In my opinion, the process of assimilation in the United States was an extremely cruel and unnecessary one. Although it did work out for the best in the long run and today the Indian Americans have the freedom to live the way they chose on their reservations, I firmly believe that the process of getting to where we are today could have been much better had it taken a different route.
In May 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forced Native American tribes to move west. Some Indians left swiftly, while others were forced to to leave by the United States Army. Some were even taken away in chains. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, strongly reinforced this act. In the Second State of the Union Address, Jackson advocated his Indian Policy. There was controversy as to whether the removal of the Native Americans was justified under the administration of President Andrew Jackson. In my personal opinion, as a Native American, the removal of the tribes was not in any way justified.
The trail of tears was a hideous harsh horrible time that the Native Americans will not forget the 1830s about 100,000 Native Americans peacefully lived on 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 of akers. They have been on this land generations before the wight men arrived. There was gold found in Gorga and the land was for ital. They used huge cotton plantations because the people would get rich off of them. In 1830 Andrew Jackson privily sinned the removal act. Te removal act gave the Government the power to trade the land for the land that the Native Americans were on. The Native Americans did not want to move, but the precedent sent troops to force the removal. Solders who looted there homes traveled 15,000 Cherokees, and gunpoint marched over 12,000
The American Indians were promised change with the American Indian policy, but as time went on no change was seen. “Indian reform” was easy to promise, but it was not an easy promise to keep as many white people were threatened by Indians being given these rights. The Indian people wanted freedom and it was not being given to them. Arthur C. Parker even went as far as to indict the government for its actions. He brought the charges of: robbing a race of men of their intellectual life, of social organization, of native freedom, of economic independence, of moral standards and racial ideals, of his good name, and of definite civic status (Hoxie 97). These are essentially what the American peoples did to the natives, their whole lives and way of life was taken away,
The Indian Removal Act, a bill that, if passed, will evict all Cherokee people from their homes, should not be passed, because the government has no right to strip these people of their land and force them to move. The Native Americans should not be removed from their current place of residence. As Americans, a lot of these native people have taken up American ways, some even converting to Christianity. They are true-blooded Americans in every sense of the word. If the government takes away their land, then they contradict the Declaration of Independence, proving that all men are not created equal.
Over the course of history, there have been many different views of Native Americans, or Indians, as many have referred to them. Some have written about them in a positive and respectful manner while others have seen them as pure evil that waged war and killed innocent men, women, and children. No matter what point of view one takes, though, one thing is clear and that is if it were not for these people the early settlers would not have survived their first year in the new land now called the United States of America. In short, it is my belief that the various authors’ viewpoints are simply a reflection of the circumstances of their particular situation. Nevertheless, one question remains: Were the Native Americans good or evil people?
Towards the development of the United States of America there has always been a question of the placement of the Native Americans in society. Throughout time, the Natives have been treated differently like an individual nation granted free by the U.S. as equal U.S. citizens, yet not treated as equal. In 1783 when the U.S. gained their independence from Great Britain not only did they gain land from the Appalachian Mountains but conflict over the Indian policy and what their choice was to do with them and their land was in effect. All the way from the first presidents of the U.S. to later in the late 19th century the treatment of the Natives has always been changing. The Native Americans have always been treated like different beings, or savages, and have always been tricked to signing false treaties accompanying the loss of their homes and even death happened amongst tribes. In the period of the late 19th century, The U.S. government was becoming more and more unbeatable making the Natives move by force and sign false treaties. This did not account for the seizing of land the government imposed at any given time (Boxer 2009).
...essfully ran them out of their village. The Natives won their land and way of life back from Spanish rule. The atrocities that the Natives faced was not because they did anything wrong to the Spanish, it was because the Spanish did not respect the indigenous peoples and believed they could treat them in anyway they desired.
The Indian Removal Act was an unjust act that took away the rights of innocent natives. The Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to give unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Native american lands inside the existing state borders at the time. Some tribes left peacefully, while most resisted. The tribes that resisted wound up leaving by force, even when deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. These actions took away the rights of Native Americans, the Indian Removal Act was neither ethical nor justified.
Most all ethnicities and cultures have been prosecuted at one time or another from an oppressing source. In the case of the Native Americans, it was the English coming in and taking their land right from underneath them. As the new colonies of the cohesive United States of America expanded, they ran into the territories of the then referred to Indians. These people were settled down south on the east coast, for example Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and the Carolinas. America obtained this land through the Louisiana Purchase, where they bought it from France. The Native Americans were already there before anyone, yet the big power countries bargained with their land. The Native Americans did not live the way the American democracy did, and they
My first reason why we should give their land back is because they were here first.Their land is more than just a piece of land, it means something to them it’s where they buried their ancestors and they were the ones who started to plant things and build house and other things.a quote from an articles Native Americans were here first. “We took their land while creating reservations for their surviving people to live on. It seems fair to most of us that we now owe them some form of reparations in order to make up for the past. After all, the Native Americans were the ones who gave up their lands to us”.Also These indian were vulnerable when their land was taken they also lost their dignity
Some might argue that the U.S should give back land to the native american groups, However this isn’t true because The best way for the United States to make up for injustices is to make reparations payments and also provide words of apology to Native American groups for what has happened in the past. My first reason is that i think the U.S should pay back for reparations,e.t.c… , my second reason is that I believe that The U.S should give an a apology and also do something like I said before but this time just provide reparation payments to every surviving internee that experienced ‘’camp for Japanese-American internees during World War II’’ and my third and final reason is that there should be less assigning blame or pointing out racism
Although the Declaration of Independence represents a milestone in American history, in 1776 this event was only significant for the white men who had taken over the lands of the New World. The reason why it was written that “all men are created equal” was because the founding fathers had a narrow definition of who qualified as a human, considering that Native Americans are addressed in this document as “merciless Indian savages.” This was further proved by Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forcefully removed Native tribes from their ancestral homes. Despite the efforts of the Indian tribes to fight Jackson’s removal policy, and even if the government had proposed a less cruel and fairer plan to make use of the Indian lands, the core issue remained on the moral excuse used by Jackson and the government to justify the dehumanization of Indians and the forced appropriation of