In this essay I am going to analyse whether it was the policy of the federal government which caused the progress of Native Americans to deter in achieving their civil rights between 1865 and 1992 or whether other factors like the lack of unity, discrimination and charitable organisation played a part in inhibiting their progress within this period.
First of all the American governments main aim was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American society between 1887 and 1933 which native Americans did not agree with as they wanted to be known as native