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Assignment 1 Native American Indian Tribes 7 20 2014
Native American Indian Tribes; The Evolution and Desemation Of
Kirk Dellinger
HIS 204 American History since 1865
Kathryn Johnson
7/19/2014

Native American Indian Tribes were and still are as diverse and as dependent on ritualistic life as the explorers and immigrants who came to America were and are presently. Their culture and population were almost desolated and destroyed by immigrants, progress, government and the pursuit of land for a new nation in the future. The Indians greeted the Mayflower; a ship with pilgrims looking for a new beginning and introduced them to new foods and farming techniques were to assist in their survival. Although not intentional in many ways the pilgrims did undue harm these unsuspecting Native Americans by bring disease, foreign plants, animals, insects, bacteria, sea life, grains and religious views which would forever change the Indians way of life, ancestry, food sources and education. Pilgrims saw the Indians as a savage people who needed religion and education so that they might be better integrated into society. Their lands were seen as needed for settlement of even more immigrants to promote growth and food sources. Governments began to hunt and destroy tribes which they saw as problematic, the Indians who would stand and defend their land or simply trying to survive by any means necessary. This included raids on white settlements, war, robbery and murder. Indians rights were essentially ignored and their way of life destroyed all in the name of immigrants rights along with the good of the nation. Native American Indians were persecuted and driven from their way of life by foreign influence and growth in the name of progress.

Fortney, J.(2012). Lest We Remember: Civil War Memory and Commemoration among the Five Tribes. American Indian Quarterly. 36(4), 525-544. 20p. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxylibrary.ashford.edu

Between 1861 and 1865, many Native American Indians fought in the civil war on the side

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