Ethnic Groups and Discrimination- Native Americans
Ethnic Groups and Discrimination
Native Americans
The ethnic group that I choose was Native Americans. I am of Caucasian descendant with Native American from my dad’s side. I really want to learn more about my heritage and family background.
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. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a mass relocation of Indians to west of the Mississippi. This movement was The Trail of Tears, which left half of the Cherokee Indians dead. The Native Americans often captured and tortured white settlers in unprovoked attacks as a form of entertainment. After several generations of patience and forgiveness by the settlers, this hostility, brutality, and betrayal on the part of the Native Americans was seen by the Europeans as a sign that Native Americans were savages. These beliefs by the Europeans would set the trend for prejudice, racism, and segregation towards all Native Americans for years to come. The earliest prejudice towards the Native Americans took the form of rejection of the native people as a whole by the Spanish who regarded the Indians as an unenlightened, brutal people. The Spanish who explored parts of Central and South America robbed the Native Americans of their gold and slaughtered them by the thousands in the name of racial and religious superiority. This is the first evidence of racism towards the native people.
Native Americans have faced prejudice, segregation, and racism for many years. More ways that the Government laws disturbed the Native Americans way of living;
Native Americans
The ethnic group that I choose was Native Americans. I am of Caucasian descendant with Native American from my dad’s side. I really want to learn more about my heritage and family background.
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. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a mass relocation of Indians to west of the Mississippi. This movement was The Trail of Tears, which left half of the Cherokee Indians dead. The Native Americans often captured and tortured white settlers in unprovoked attacks as a form of entertainment. After several generations of patience and forgiveness by the settlers, this hostility, brutality, and betrayal on the part of the Native Americans was seen by the Europeans as a sign that Native Americans were savages. These beliefs by the Europeans would set the trend for prejudice, racism, and segregation towards all Native Americans for years to come. The earliest prejudice towards the Native Americans took the form of rejection of the native people as a whole by the Spanish who regarded the Indians as an unenlightened, brutal people. The Spanish who explored parts of Central and South America robbed the Native Americans of their gold and slaughtered them by the thousands in the name of racial and religious superiority. This is the first evidence of racism towards the native people.
Native Americans have faced prejudice, segregation, and racism for many years. More ways that the Government laws disturbed the Native Americans way of living;