Research Paper On Native American Genocide

Genocide, it’s violent and bares sadness, anger and misery. Genocide is the killing of a large number of people. This often happens to those of a particular group such as a religious group or nationality. In this case, it would be a genocide run against the Native Americans. According to United To End Genocide, about 10 million Native Americans inhabited the country by the time European explorers arrived. By around 1900, it was estimated that there were only less than 300,000 Native Americans living in what is now the United States. When the Europeans came to America, they took many of the Native Americans’ homes and killed many of them. This was wrong for the Europeans to do because as the population decreased, most of the Natives’ culture, history, and, of course, innocent lives have been lost.

The people’s culture is what represents who they are as a whole. There were multiple Native American tribes and each tribe had their own culture and traditions. When the colonists came and slayed many of the tribes, many of the tribes’ population lost their culture. According to Running Strong for American Indian Youth, children from Native American families were taken away to Christian boarding schools and were often disciplined for doing anything related to their tribes’ traditions and culture. These children, who were supposed to be the next generation of the Native Americans, were taught to forget their origin. Without the support of what was supposedly the next generation of Natives, the culture and traditions that were passed down were now long gone and forgotten. Since there is not much we can gather about the Natives tribes back then, all we can learn about them are the objects they left behind or, at least, not lost and