It has been a huge part of what has shaped America since the European’s arrived on America’s soil and conquered the land from the Native Americans who were the original people of the land. When they took over the land they brought prejudice and bigotry along with them. Europeans thought the Native Americans were savages due to their lifestyles and they needed to be civilized based on European cultures and through Christianity. Genocide and mass murder nearly wiped out the Native American population along with their tradition because of the racism Europeans towards them (Siddiqui,
It has been a huge part of what has shaped America since the European’s arrived on America’s soil and conquered the land from the Native Americans who were the original people of the land. When they took over the land they brought prejudice and bigotry along with them. Europeans thought the Native Americans were savages due to their lifestyles and they needed to be civilized based on European cultures and through Christianity. Genocide and mass murder nearly wiped out the Native American population along with their tradition because of the racism Europeans towards them (Siddiqui,