Native Americans in the United States

The Trail of Tears has been an American predicament as to whether the forceful removal of Cherokee tribes from their homelands was unconstitutional. The Trail of Tears devastated many Cherokee people, families, and homes, and is still a debate whether the whole fiasco was unconstitutional. Through the years 1816-1840 Native American nations signed more than 40 different treaties that gave up more and more of the Natives homeland. When President Andrew Jackson came into power starting in 1829, Jackson

and believed in Manifest Destiny. The Indian Removal Act was an act that removed native americans from their land because the US wanted it. The supreme court specifically told Jackson to not move the native americans off the land, but Jackson still did. Even though the native americans and the US had an agreement, the US still decided to remove the native americans so they could have the land. The native americans were moved off their land and moved west. This lead to the Trail of Tears. The

No, the United States Government has not repaid them for the damage they caused, and continues to cause, insulting the Native American people with poor excuses. This paper will discuss the fairness of the treatment of Native Americans in America by the US government over the years, and consider the effects of this treatment and abuse even today. It will look into the lives of those living on the Reservations, the Native Americans who have moved into an urban society. It will be explained by researching

Cherokee is a Native American tribe local to the Southeastern United States. The Cherokee Indians were one of the main tribes of the five Native American tribes, they were initially from the Great Lakes territory, but then eventually established closer to the east coast. The Cherokee name translates into “those who live in the mountains”. They were religious individuals who always believed in spirits, they performed rituals in order to ask the spirits to help them. In 1836, the United States and the state

From Nabokov’s Native American Testimony, I have decided to select the voices of the Apache people in regards to their face to face encounter with Europeans, Christianity, Mexicans and ultimately the Americans. As an American Catholic of Mexican dissent, it is disturbing to read first person accounts about Christian conversion through brutality in the name of religion. In chapter 4 of Nabokov, describes Christians frame of mind toward Native Americans, “To their Christian minds, these were deplorable

means of grave robbing. Native Americans wanted justice for these past mistreatments and control over their history. According to Chip Colwell, campaigning, repatriation of indigenous artifacts began in the 1960s by indigenous activism. Finally, on November 16, 1990, The United States Government passed The Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act. NAGPRA summarizes that museums must conduct an inventory of all native American cultural artifacts and remains. (Native) In addition, Museums

had huge effects on the American People, Native Americans, and even other countries. Westward expansion was the moving of American “white” people to the West of the Mississippi River which in turn caused Native Americans that had been living there to be forcefully removed to different reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas. Manifest Destiny was the thinking that Americans had the right too and inevitably would move West and gain new lands. This thinking turned the United States into a world power and

Most white Americans believed indigenous people are inferior portraying them as the noble savages, just savages, and often foolish children. The Indians could not claim equal status with other nations, because initially, by their very nature are not equal to the white people. Ever since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands. The new imbalance in power between whites and Indians grew from a conscious and long-pursued

Americans have always had their eyes set on the west and through many challenges they eventually triumphed with perseverance and violence. Westward expansion was made possible by Rail systems. Without railroads, there would have been no way to move the necessary number of people and materials west to fuel the expanding country. The civil war left a complex system of railroads in the east but none were yet present going west. The Union Pacific railroad company and the Central Pacific Railroad Company’s

The positive fiscal influence of gambling on the American economy, both locally and at the federal level, minimizes its negative aspects. The advantages of gambling are numerous and the revenue gained lends aid to a diverse group of programs from education to infrastructure. With advances in technology gambling is more lucrative than ever and is a source of jobs for millions of people as well as major source of income for the nation’s Native American tribes. Major tourist destinations such as Atlantic