Examples Of Assimilation Of Native Americans

Native American Assimilation

Have you ever wondered why Native Americans seem so separated from the rest of the world? The Native American culture has been changed drastically over the years since the White Americans assimilated them. Examples of this happening are their clothing, agriculture,and their rights. The first way that they were assimilated was their clothing. They were forced to wear the clothing of the white immigrants instead of their traditional clothing. The traditional Native American clothing included moccasins , a type of shoe they used to cover their feet during cold times or when they went on long journeys, feathers in their hair for decoration Leather clothing from the animals they had hunted. The Americans made them change all of that they wore hats and coats some had their hair cut shorter. The Native Americans followed what they were told. ( photos) The next
The rights they had before they assimilated were way different in their tribe it didn't matter how much they had the only thing that mattered was how they treated other people. Another example of this is how much food and how many items they brought to the tribe to provide for everyone. Once they were assimilated they had to walk a long way to get food they rarely left the reservations they also had to make there own personal things and sell them to the white people so they could make a living. (Notes on board & My Source) The assimilation of the Native American culture was very hard for them to accept even today they are still having a hard time many of them have addiction problems and it is hard for them agriculture, clothing and rights were not the only ways that they had to change drastically they had to almost completely transfer way of life. The Native Americans religion was at its near end. (My