Native American And Native Americans

Native Americans have been forced out of their culture over time, forced into assimilation, lost their rights, and have lost their land due to policies and laws by the whites that can’t bear the Native American way of life. There used to be many Native American tribes all throughout North America, and now these tribes are spread across the country and are blended into the rest of the population. The native ways have changed drastically in the last two centuries due to relocation programs, Indian boarding schools, and the way to classify which tribe each person belongs to. Native Americans have endured so much pain, which results from everything they have lost over time, and they have constantly paid the price for their ethnicity.

Long ago on the great plains, the buffalo roamed and the Native Americans lived amongst each other. They were able to move freely across the lands until the white men came and concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The treaties were to assure that fur trade would continue without interruption. The American people wanting Indian land has led to violent conflict between the two. Succeeding treaties usually forced the tribes to give up their land to the United States government. There were laws made for Native American Displacement that didn’t benefit the Native Americans, these laws still have long lasting effects on them today, and there was a huge number of Native Americans killed for many reasons.

Before Europeans ever ventured to North America, the land had been populated by Native American nations that had their own distinct cultures and social structures. Native Americans had trade routes and established complex relationships between tribes. They were not merely heathens waiting to be civilized by the Europeans. Yet, Europeans would use those justifications to lay claim on their land.

Spain, England, and France led the colonization of the Americas having distinct missions, and using different approach. By the mid 1960’s, all these great nations were in a race to establish American colonies. Like in every expedition, the primary purposes were to gain wealth and riches, which was the main reasoning behind all of the colonization’s. On their way to building these settlements, the colonials encountered the Native Americans and had to deal with them in very different ways.

Let’s back to the early 1600s, after the Columbus’s voyage came to the New World, most all the European nations began to proceed colonized the Native American by force, invading their lands, inter-married with the native women, create the Empire on the American continent. But, the main point that European came to the New World is spreading their religion, they tried to convert the native into Christianity. This caused more tension between the native and the white people. According by William Bradford described in his journey “Of Plymouth Plantation”, it said “Men, Indians! Indians! And withal, their arrows came flying amongst them...Thus it pleased God to vanquish their enemies and give them deliverance; and by His special providence so to dispose that not any of them were either hurt or hit, though their arrows came close by.” He claimed God protected his people from the enemy. In otherwise, the most reason that European come to North America is founding gold, a valuable items, that every man who desires for their ambitious dreams. Among these men, one man stood up and called for the establishment a colony, he is John

In the 16th century Europeans began to make appearances in North America. By the late 1700’s most tribal lands on the east coast were occupied by Europeans. In 1776 what we know now as the United States of America was founded. For many years to come Native American tribes fought against England, France, and

Europeans arrived in the Americas around the 1400’s. They explored the world looking for new trade routes and land. When the Europeans arrived in the Americas, they began to colonize. They soon discovered that they weren’t alone, and learned that the Native Americans were living on the land which the Europeans (specifically the Spanish) wanted to colonize. The Spanish noticed that the Indians were not technologically advanced, so they coercively took control of the Native American’s lives.

Whites settlers were moving West to the Great Plain. They were looking to start over with their new land that were wild and untouched. However, many Native American had already been there and the government were building railroads and roads. People rushed to settle in the west to mine for gold. Cities and town along with railroad and roads building at a rapid pace changed the habits of the buffalo. Buffalo were an important symbol in the Native Americans live they used buffalo as their main food source and they use the skin to make clothes and teepee covering , bones for silverware and hunting tools like arrow. The Native Americans make use of the buffalo not a single part was wasted. While White hunts buffalo as a sport and the government hired professional hunter to supply buffalo meat to railroad workers. Before settlers were in the west, the west was home to 60 millions buffalo. By the end of 1870s the buffalo population was less than 1,000 and nearly became extinct. With the nearly extinct buffalo population the Native American understands they have to fight and defend their homelands.The railroads brought numerous changes to Native American. The rails ran through many tribes territories and this bring conflict to both Whites and Native Americans as Native American had different cultural views on how land should be used and used to live on. Railroad also multiply the number American in the West as they can travel faster. The buffalo was the main food source for the

When Native Hawaiians welcomed Captain Cook and his crew, they began a journey that would lead to the crumbling of Hawaiian culture. After Captain Cook, missionaries continued to travel to Hawaii to, in their opinion, help the Hawaiian people. Native Hawaiians were viewed as savages and were seemingly given the best assistance from the missionaries. However, the help that the Hawaiians received led to them being demoralized and hurt psychologically and physiologically. In order to succeed, underdogs often need the assistance of others. However, too much aid from others can result in the help becoming the underdog’s Goliath instead of their savior. The Hawaiians, being thought of as the underdogs by the missionaries, were given an overwhelming amount of help which led to the missionaries becoming the Hawaiian’s Goliath.

22,000 years ago the first people set foot in the Americas, and it is not until 1492 that the “first people” make their way as well. The Europeans walked in and saw the Natives as the wildlife of the region and considered themselves the founders, and the Native Americans were heavily influenced and conflicted with the tidal wave of European colonization. Following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, colonization of Native American territory began. Afterwards, life for Native Americans became rather harsh, and genocide is an accurate term to describe this event. Their population dropped and displaced severely over the next couple centuries for various reasons such as conflict, disease, and relocation. Native Americans were treated as foreigners on their own homefront, and those that were spared from enslavement and death were forced to relocate. All in all, Europeans had a devastating impact on Native Americans from the moment they arrived.

Considering historical evidence, the notion: “Native –Americans were not the first inhabitant of America is a complete false. For centuries, history kept accurate and vivid account of the first set of people who domiciled the western hemisphere. Judging by that record and evidence, below are the first set of Native-American people who inhabited the western hemisphere, including the new “America” before the arrival of another human race… The Iroquois: The Iroquois of Native Americans were one of the tribes that lived in America before other people came. Based on historical evidence, it is believed that the Native Americans came from Asia way back during the Ice Age through a land bridge of the Bering Strait. When the Europeans first set foot in America, there were about 10 million Native Americans living in America, North of Mexico. Native Americans had all separated and made their own tribes. Some of the many Native American tribes that still exist are those of the Iroquoian tribes. Which make up Seneca, Cayuga, Inondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora; these groups eventually became known as the Iroquois Confederacy. The Iroquois was often known for peace and power; but sometimes, they also like to refer to themselves as the “Haudenosaunee”. Their name was given to them by their enemies, the Algonquin, who called them the Iroqu “rattlesnakes.” When the French arrived, they added “ois” to their name and became Iroquois. They were also known as the “Six Nations,”

Ever since the European settlements began in the America’s in the early 1500’s, indigenous tribes have endured continuous hardships in order to coexist with white settlements and still maintain a sense of self and native cultural identity. Many of the hardships experienced by the Native American Indians were the results of empty promises made by European settlers who used foreign laws, religion, and language barriers to oppress those Indians who were willing to conform. Later, and further into the development of the United States, foreign laws and languages were used as a premise to manipulate the Native Americans into giving up their promised lands so big businesses could harvest their resources. Because the Native Americans were a

Tribal sovereignty which states in Maynard v Narrangansett Indian Tribe, 798 F Supp 94 (DRI, 1992) that Indian Tribes are distinct and independent communities that retain their natural rights of the Indian Tribe. Indian Tribes and their members are immune from common-law suits. Indian Tribes members are exempt from suits unless congress has authorized the suit.

Native Americans roamed the land and did as they pleased, almost ancient technology. That was until white settlers came in and took away their land and buffalo. Whites forced them to adapt to white culture and learn how to farm wheat, and go to school. Whites even put them on indian reservations that had poor soil so their farming techniques were difficult..

The film opens with the Native American victory at Little Big Horn over General Custer and his men on June 25, 1876. Custer’s death and the Native American win sparked rage from the U.S. government and led them to redraw territories so that the gold-filled Black Hills would not be included in the reservation land. The event of the movie focus on the government’s attempts to steal this land and the resistance of the Native Americans.