Exam 1 Long Essay: The tribal structure of the Native Americans was destroyed after the civil war because of the “Indian Wars” and the reservations. After the civil war, the Americans were trying to get all of the Native American settlements but the Native Americans resisted, which led to series of wars around the country. The loss of the tribal structure is directly related to the white society. In 1864, the Sand Creek Massacre occurred which was very brutal. Four hundred Indians were living in the area at the time and thought that they were safe from the United States Government but suddenly the government began to kill all of the Indians on the settlement. This wasn’t the only place where this happened. This was happening in almost every …show more content…
The government ordered for all of the buffalo to be killed to get rid of all of the Native Americans food resources. Before the Indian Wars, the buffalo had a population of 50 million across the United States. After the Indian Wars, the population was 15 million. Thus, leading to the decrease of the population if the Native American. The government was the main reason that the tribal structure of the Native Americans was destroyed after the civil war. Because most of the Native Americans were away from the their homeland their culture began to determinate. For example, the Cheyennes and Arapahos were sent to settle in Oklahoma. When they arrived, they found it very hard to adjust and feel like it was their home. Their idea of a home warming place was completely gone. Traditions of the Native American tribes slowly weakened as more and more people began to die and went into …show more content…
The purpose of the organization was to make sure that the power of the white race did not decrease. It was mainly focused on the power of the white ethnicity in the government. The men pledged to protect the white race to oppose the so-called carpetbaggers. The Knights of the White Camellia can be confused with the Klu Klux Klan Knights of the White Camellia. The Klu Klux Klan Knights of the White Camellia were more religiously based. The Klu Klux Klan refused to have any part with the Knight of the White Camellia of the white men. The Klu Klux Klan White Camellia was more focused on the Southern part of the United States. The name White Camellia comes from the flower, which represents purity or it can perceived as the white
Tribal lands were not all purely native Americans. Interracial marriages encouraged the potential for bully and abuse within their own tribal lands. This encouraged formal acts of government within the tribes such as, court trials that resulted in the extension of Native American sovereignty. But it also allowed for the tribes to govern themselves “legal grey areas” which were clearly evident to the Native Americans and many conflicts arose because of the procrastination of fixing the problem at hand. Native Americans have fought against the suppression of rights and discrimination but persevered adopting new rights to vote, along with the ability to self-govern their own communities and deal with their own domestic laws under the United States of
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,
Deloria defines the relationship between the US Government and the Indians as paternalistic. The US Government treated and governed the Indians as a father would by providing basic needs but without given them rights. There has been some improvement with the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934. This act allowed the return to local self-government on a tribal level and restored the self management of their assets. By allowing the Indians to self govern it encouraged an economic foundation for the inhabitants of Indian reservations. Unfortunately only a few tribes have fully taken advantage of this Act, while others struggle for survival.
...e Americans, resulting in a large depletion of land. As this benefited the people that had migrated throughout the United States, it really harmed the Native American population.
Indians would do everything that was asked of them by the white man instead of standing up for themselves. The Choctaws were granted citizenship in the exception of them not living their everyday life style. Under citizenship, the tribal government of the Choctaws was abolished. Choctaws was given heavy fines and even jail time if the Choctaws dishonored the demands of the white man for their citizenship. Chief Moshulatubbee was shocked so he decided to run for congress. Mississippians took Moshulatubbee wanting to run for congress as a joke. Moshulatubbee lost. The lost started a civil war among the Choctaws. No matter what the Choctaws did they did not get their way. When leaving Mississippi some of the Choctaws died of diseases and of hunger. So the Choctaws gave in and again let the white man take control of them.
The Wounded Knee Massacre was final result of the growing problems between the Lakota Sioux and the American Government. After the Civil War tension began to escalate and ended on December 29, 1890. When the government took over most of the Lakota land and forced them into reservations the Indian way of life was destroyed and the large bison herds were hunted until they were endangered. The life in reservations was also difficult since many of the promises made by the government remained unfulfilled: “Promises to increase rations, made by U.S. officials in 1889 in order to secure signatures to reduce Sioux treaty lands by half, and to create six separate reservations, had proved false. Instead, rations had been cut precipitously, and the people were nearly starving.” (Robertson 1). Treaties which were signed to protect the reservations from outsiders were also ignored by the government. There were also other factors which led to the killing such as the Ghost Dance, Murder of Chief Sitting Bull, and the struggle with evolved into a massacre.
In the 30 years after the Civil War, although government policy towards Native Americans intended to shift from forced separation to integration into American society, attempts to "Americanize" Indians only hastened the death of their culture and presence in the America. The intent in the policy, after the end of aggression, was to integrate Native Americans into American society. Many attempts at this were made, ranging from offering citizenship to granting lands to Indians. All of these attempts were in vain, however, because the result of this policies is much the same as would be the result of continued agression.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave America an immense chance for development. The Indian Removal Act was “an Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi”(Indian Removal Act of 1830 ). The small nation underwent a great change in many aspects. Forcing Native Americans out by establishing the Indian Removal Act impacted American history by bringing political, economic, and geographical changes. In exchange of thousands of innocent lives, America furthered its power by controlling more land, gaining more valuable resources, and obtaining freedom to expand. America experienced a prodigious amount of political changes with the removal of Indians. Economic changes were also inevitable as there were fields of gold on Indian land. There were greater outcomes geographically with more lands available for use. Although it was a heavy cost to pay, the lives lost were considered a necessary sacrifice for the advancement of American betterment and in result revolutionized the nation.
Native Americans had inherited the land now called America and eventually their lives were destroyed due to European Colonization. When the Europeans arrived and settled, they changed the Native American way of life for the worst. These changes were caused by a number of factors including disease, loss of land, attempts to export religion, and laws, which violated Native American culture.
In the end the Native Americans wanted to survive by any means by either defending their lands, leaving there given lands, and trying to pass on their language to the next generation. With all of these sources you could say either way that they were vanished in some ways or not. A similar thing happens in history too, and that was the Germans arresting Polish Jews in 1939 and putting them into ghettos, in this ghettos it was all corrupt and disorganized. Also with this reservation , there was some resistance of Jews trying to leave, the Gestapo-brutal police force, shot them and thought their kids' state run education. In conclusion the Indians wanted to survive and not to be a puppet for
First, the American government made reservations to separate American settlers and Native Americans in an effort to acquire more land from the Indians and hopefully try to stop conflict. Unfortunately for the Native Americans by the late 1800’s settlers were
People know about the conflict between the Indian's cultures and the settler's cultures during the westward expansion. Many people know the fierce battles and melees between the Indians and the settlers that were born from this cultural conflict. In spite of this, many people may not know about the systematic and deliberate means employed by the U.S. government to permanently rid their new land of the Indians who had lived their own lives peacefully for many years. There are many strong and chilling reasons and causes as to why the settlers started all of this perplexity in the first place. There was also a very strong and threatening impact on the Native Americans through the schooling that stained the past and futures of Native Americans not only with blood but also with emotion. It was all a slow and painful plan of the "white man" to hopefully get rid of the Indian culture, forever. The Native American schools were created in an attempt to destroy the Native American way of life, their culture, beliefs and tradi...
This was the start of the Indian-Wars. There were battles fought, one is known as the Sand Creek Massacre. The Cheyenne and Arapaho inhabited the Sand Creek region. They were being relocated due to the gold rush, but they didn’t leave because the Indians “believed they were granted immunity and protective custody by the government” (Aboukhadijeh). But they weren’t because troops slaughtered approximate four hundred Indians. After the blood bath of the battle of Wounded Knee ended the war and in 1887 the Dawes Act was made. The Dawes Act aimed to assimilate Indians into mainstream American society. “This act required natives to convert to Christianity, speaking English, wearing western clothes and hairstyles, and living a self-sufficient independent Americans” (Boxer). And this act only promised citizenship to those who adopted the habits of civilian life. Native children had to go away to boarding schools so their parents didn’t influence them into the native cultural. As of today modern day leaders continue to fight for the loss of Indian lands and the diminishing culture caused by the Indian wars. Neither Native Americans nor the federal government have successfully resolved the status and identity of the original inhabitants of North
In the early 1700’s the Great Plains was filled abundantly with buffalo. The Sioux Tribe had moved from their homeland, an area near the Missouri River, to the Great Plains, because of the threatening nature of their enemies, the Chippewa. French traders had recently given the Chippewa guns and this put the people of the Sioux Tribe on edge. After the Sioux relocated, they were amazed at the abundance of buffalo, as the land seemed to teem with these animals. The buffalo were a way of life for the Sioux. Bands of men from the tribes would take up their weapons, a first just spears and bows with arrows, but later guns, and set out to hunt the buffalos for survival. Because the Native American people believed that these buffalo were gifts from Wakan Tanka, or the Great Spirit, they did not want to waste any of the animal. (O’Neill). Buffalo hunting was a way of life for these tribes, and a way to ensure that all Indians would be fed and clothed. This, however, would not stick around thanks to the greed of Americans, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the nation’s belief that Manifest Destiny was essential to the growth of the economy. These Americans came in and began
After the colonists had won, the Indians were treated harshly and attacked. The colonists expected them to obey their every command and/or become civilized into their society. The colonists would even go as far as to murder ninety-six Native Americans for supposedly murdering