Essay On Native American Government
History is one of the world’s greatest mysteries as even though humanity has access to tons of information collected over hundreds of years, there is not an absolute certainty that what humans know is fact. As a result, there are many misinterpretations regarding events in human history. For example, Christopher Columbus is believed to be the relationship between Native Americans and settling Americans has always been rocky. Citizens of the U.S.A have stripped these people of their rights and cast them away like an old candy wrapper, however this was a long time ago. Many are debating whether the citizens of the present U.S.A are responsible for the mistakes of the past. Who is responsible should not be the question asked, but why are we not
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making a greater effort to help?
The United States has never been a fair place for Native Americans, a people who have been mistreated and in need of help ever since Europeans migrated to Northern America. For example, Native Americans live in poor conditions “unfathomable” to an average working class American citizen (Cornwell 6). Native American people are in a similar situation to the Jews in the Holocaust. They are not given equal support as other American citizens and live in conditions similar to that of a third world country. Furthermore, Native Americans are not sufficiently educated and almost always attend schools in “neglected” educational systems (Brown 8). Native American school systems are not appropriately funded by the U.S. government. They don’t receive any money to create decent learning environments for their children to learn, causing many of their students to grow up without the knowledge to improve their communities. Overall, Native American communities are in dire need of support from the country. Natives should have received the help they are getting now long ago.
The United States of America is a country that vows to protect and support its citizens and the Native Americans have gone too long without that.
For example, Native Americans have had their homes stolen from them and were forced into, “Indian Reservations” with low “budgets” and low quality housing (Hotakainen 10). America is a developed country that prides itself on being able to change for the benefit of its citizens. If that is the case, than the U.S.A should be providing more support towards the Native American community. Furthermore, Native Americans are placed into terrible school systems with, “dozens of neglected school buildings” and minimal funding from the government (Brown 8). America is working to improve the educational systems of its multiple communities. However, it seems for a while Native Americans were excluded from that promise, which is not okay. In order for America to truly grow they need to help all of their, blacks, whites, and, yes, Native Americans. Overall, America needs to help the Native American community because it’s also a part of the U.S.A and deserves to be treated as so. Yet, many others believe that we should help the Native Americans not because they are citizens, but because the American government put them in their situation to begin
with. Some believe that since the old American government was responsible for placing the Native Americans into a bad spot, the new government is responsible for taking them out. After the Europeans came to Northern America they forced the people already here into “reservations” and took away most of their human rights (Hotakainen 10). Our government is the reason Native Americans are suffering in these rough conditions today. It is only makes sense for the country to fix its own mistakes, right? Yet, it isn’t quite that simple. Saying we should reap what was previously sewn is like saying modern day whites should pay for what old slave owners did to blacks. What happened in the past was is because of the people of the past, not the present. The old American society is responsible for setting up an, “unjust and unacceptable status quo” not the present Americans. (Hotakainen 11). Overall, we are not responsible for fixing the mistakes of a past people. In summary we should not be questioning who is responsible for the oppression of the Native Americans but why we are not helping large majority of our community. The Native Americans are clearly in trouble and need our help and we should have helped them long before because they are a part of the country as well, in addition this generation is not responsible for fixing the mistakes of a past people.
making a greater effort to help?
The United States has never been a fair place for Native Americans, a people who have been mistreated and in need of help ever since Europeans migrated to Northern America. For example, Native Americans live in poor conditions “unfathomable” to an average working class American citizen (Cornwell 6). Native American people are in a similar situation to the Jews in the Holocaust. They are not given equal support as other American citizens and live in conditions similar to that of a third world country. Furthermore, Native Americans are not sufficiently educated and almost always attend schools in “neglected” educational systems (Brown 8). Native American school systems are not appropriately funded by the U.S. government. They don’t receive any money to create decent learning environments for their children to learn, causing many of their students to grow up without the knowledge to improve their communities. Overall, Native American communities are in dire need of support from the country. Natives should have received the help they are getting now long ago.
The United States of America is a country that vows to protect and support its citizens and the Native Americans have gone too long without that.
For example, Native Americans have had their homes stolen from them and were forced into, “Indian Reservations” with low “budgets” and low quality housing (Hotakainen 10). America is a developed country that prides itself on being able to change for the benefit of its citizens. If that is the case, than the U.S.A should be providing more support towards the Native American community. Furthermore, Native Americans are placed into terrible school systems with, “dozens of neglected school buildings” and minimal funding from the government (Brown 8). America is working to improve the educational systems of its multiple communities. However, it seems for a while Native Americans were excluded from that promise, which is not okay. In order for America to truly grow they need to help all of their, blacks, whites, and, yes, Native Americans. Overall, America needs to help the Native American community because it’s also a part of the U.S.A and deserves to be treated as so. Yet, many others believe that we should help the Native Americans not because they are citizens, but because the American government put them in their situation to begin
with. Some believe that since the old American government was responsible for placing the Native Americans into a bad spot, the new government is responsible for taking them out. After the Europeans came to Northern America they forced the people already here into “reservations” and took away most of their human rights (Hotakainen 10). Our government is the reason Native Americans are suffering in these rough conditions today. It is only makes sense for the country to fix its own mistakes, right? Yet, it isn’t quite that simple. Saying we should reap what was previously sewn is like saying modern day whites should pay for what old slave owners did to blacks. What happened in the past was is because of the people of the past, not the present. The old American society is responsible for setting up an, “unjust and unacceptable status quo” not the present Americans. (Hotakainen 11). Overall, we are not responsible for fixing the mistakes of a past people. In summary we should not be questioning who is responsible for the oppression of the Native Americans but why we are not helping large majority of our community. The Native Americans are clearly in trouble and need our help and we should have helped them long before because they are a part of the country as well, in addition this generation is not responsible for fixing the mistakes of a past people.