Native American Forced Assimilation

During westward expansion, the Native Americans got kicked to the side. The settlers coming west often saw the Indians as a threat to them and their families. However, this was not the main reason the Indians were pushed aside. The settlers saw the Indians had fertile land and wanted it for themselves. The Indians were the opposite of what the settlers thought they were. The Indians often helped the people moving west across the plains; giving them food, supplies, and acting as guides. However, the U.S. Government did not see this side of the Indians, instead they forced the Indians onto reservations. During the time of the expansion of the United States to the present, the Native Americans went through many things so that the United States could expand; they were pushed onto reservations, and forced to give up their culture through the Ideas of Manifest Destiny and Social Darwinism.

The United States government thought in order to avoid continual disputes between settlers and American Natives it would set up reservations for the Native Americans. Consequently, the Native Americans had to relocate and travel several hundreds of miles to get to the reservations. Frequently the land that they left was their homeland for centuries. The Native Americans opposed the idea of reservations.

Originally Native American tribes were viewed as their own Nations. They owned their own land and could make up their own rules. Most importantly, the United States government did not have authority over them. However, by 1838 this had all changed. The Cherokee Indians had been forced to give up their ancestral land and walk to their new, United States government determined, land. not only did this go against policy, it resulted in the death of many Cherokees as they were forced to walk hundreds of miles. As shown through the Trail of Tears, Later federal policy towards Native Americans Became both more heartless and more harmful. especially when it's put in contrast with the earlier fairer

During the 19th century, native americans were treated very poorly. Americans wanted more land, and there just happened to be someone living there. The natives were forced out of their homes into completely new places, marched places without food or care, and much more. The Americans believed what they were doing was right, but many of these events were covered up. Did the motives of nationalism and ethnic cleansing influence native resettlement and result in native assimilation around the turn of the 20th century?

For almost as long as European settlers have interacted with the native peoples of the Americas, they have had a notion: what many call ‘assimilation’. To Europeans, assimilation of native peoples meant for their culture, which they believed to be superior, to be accepted over time by the natives. And as they grew more and more European in language, religion, customs, organization, morals, and behavior, they would slowly shed off all of their old culture which the European culture would be replacing. The Europeans believed this process was for the best for the natives and that they would be happier living ‘civilized’ lives as opposed to practicing their own traditions.

Native Americans have had a long history of resistance to the social and cultural assimilation into white culture. By employing various creative strategies, Native Americans have attempted to cope with the changes stemming from the European colonial movement into the Americas. There are fundamental differences in world views and cultural and social orders between Indians and Europeans, which contributed to conservatism in Native American cultures. In this paper, two aspects of such cultural and institutional differences of Native American societies will be examined: holistic Native American beliefs versus dualistic world views and harmony versus domination. These two aspects are important in terms of explaining changes (or lack thereof) in

Years of violence, forced removal to Indian Territory and forced religious indoctrination had failed to solve what the federal government referred to as “the Indian problem.”[6] the Native Americans may not have flourished in their new land, but they survived and would not go away. As a result, American policy shifted from

"I don 't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."- John Wayne. Even though John Wayne was greatly mistaken, he is entitled to his opinion. There are also others like John Wayne who feels this way towards Native Americans. However I am not one of those people who agree with John Wayne. The brutal extract of the Native Americans in the United States was not only unjustified, it also tremendously impacted later generations.

I think you are right about the public school aspect of forced assimilation. From the video clip "The Common School", it's pretty clear that there were strong biases against many Irish immigrants. I like the fact that you gave specifics on how the different colonies held different views on the level of tolerance they had. The way many immigrants were kept out of local governing seems like it may have lead to some difficult challenges. It's amazing how divided the colonies were on the basis of religious practice or

The Native Americans didn’t participate in discrimination; they were affected by people discriminating against them. The immigration of Indian American has taken place in several waves since the first Indian American came to the United States in the 1700’s. Indians are among the largest ethnic groups legally immigrating to the United States. When white people first landed on the east coast, they pushed the Native Americans back with peace treaties, trade agreements and if that failed, violence.

At first, the attitudes and polices of the Americans desired to integrate the Indians, but after the American Revolution, those things started to change for the Indians (particularly those associated with the tribes who actually did fight against the Patriots) who were perceived as enemies just like the British were. People like Thomas Jefferson viewed the Indians as “noble savages”. Jefferson felt the only way they could vindicate themselves, was if they chose to live and adapt to the ways of the white man. Jefferson wanted them to live the agricultural lifestyle the rest of the country was living. The Indians did not have any interest in this way of life and preferred to continue on with their own traditions and culture. Events and like the Black Hawk War, the First Seminole War, the Second Seminole war, confrontations with Tecumseh’s Confederation, the Creek Wars, scalping, massacres at forts like Mims and other events attributed to this change. Greed for the land and concern for how the Indians would fare in society played a part also. The Indians had two options; they could

Native Americans have felt distress from societal and governmental interactions for hundreds of years. American Indian protests against these pressures date back to the colonial period. Broken treaties, removal policies, acculturation, and assimilation have scarred the indigenous societies of the United States. These policies and the continued oppression of the native communities produced an atmosphere of heightened tension. Governmental pressure for assimilation and their apparent aim to destroy cultures, communities, and identities through policies gave the native people a reason to fight. The unanticipated consequence was the subsequent creation of a pan-American Indian identity

The way Native Americans and the racialization of their people occurred was and is through three categories social, legal, and historical. The past and present both show evidence of racialization of the Native American people. The Racialization of Native Americans was and is socially constructed through the media such as movies and shows and more recently social media, it is legally constructed through laws and rights such as citizenship, and historically through events in the past where Native Americans lost people and their land.

Some of the policies that America made with Native Americans were broken promises and lies. Some of these would include the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, which stated that they should have been treated with the “utmost good faith” and their lands to not be taken from them, yet settlers had military protection that helped them take over territory,

Assimilation policy proposed that ‘full blood’ Indigenous people should be allowed to ‘die out’ through a process of natural elimination, while ‘half-castes’ were encouraged to assimilate into the white community. This approach was founded on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority. It was assumed that Indigenous people would enjoy the same quality of life as white Australians if they adopted European customs and everyone would live together as a single white Australian community. In actuality, assimilation policy further destroyed Indigenous identity, culture and families. It also was justification for the removal of Indigenous children from their