THE SYSTEM WAS CRUEL AND THE INDIANS HAD TO WORK FROM MORNING TO NIGHTFALL THE NATIVED WERE TREATED TERRIBLY FROM SAVAGE BEATINGS TO NEVER-ENDING LABOR AND SHEER EXHAUSTEN. DESEASES WERE BROUGHT TO THE AMERICANS BY THE COLONISTS WHICH ALSO DESTROYED THE WHOLE NATIVE POPULATION.…
Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to change their culture by the…
The Native Americans lost their “spirit”. Native Americans were considered savages and were either killed or conformed to the American control. The Indians lost their identity due to the American expansion.…
When English colonists first arrived to the New World, the Native American Indians were curious yet kind to these “white men”. However, as time passed the colonists’ hunger for more land grew stronger. They began to take advantage of the Indians by signing treaties that were not completely understood by the natives. Consequently, a brave Indian took upon the initiative to protect their properties. Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee, began his quest to put a stop to American greed by uniting the molested tribes to defend their lands.…
The English took their land and disrupted their traditional systems of trade and agriculture. As a result, the power of native religious leaders was corrupted. The Indians were understandably angered by the colonists' insensitive actions, especially since they had treated the English kindly when they first arrived on the Eastern shores.…
Another factor that is to be considered is that the Whites and the Native Americans both had different attitudes to land. The Native Americans believed that land could not be owned, and looked at it as a life source, while the Whites though the private ownership of land was extremely important. This made the Native Americans more likely to lose because, if a white settler came and lived on some land, the white would think e owned the land, while the Native Americans wouldn’t mind because they thought that the land couldn’t owned by the Whites. This scenario would not have been a problem, but if the amount of whites increased, the Native Americans would eventually have no space for their living. The Native Americans didn’t notice this, and the population…
Native American culture was very rooted in the land comma their lives depended on the Buffalo and their beliefs were tied to the land. Most Plains Indians did not believe that anyone owned the land, this made it easy for the Americans to cheat the natives of their land with treaties and laws they usually couldn't understand. In December of 1890 the Lakota Indians had been chased down by the soldiers set to force them into a reservation, camped in the cold at Wounded Knee many died from the cold alone, after a small conflict the soldiers opened fire upon the mostly helpless Natives. The Great Plains was the Native Americans land that did not see it that way. the natives were cheated, lied to, and slaughtered, their culture was built around the land that was taken away. the treatment of the natives was terrible especially when they couldn't fight back, the massacre at Wounded Knee shows how the West was lost by the cruelty of America. The Native American's lands taken from them, the West was taken from them. the Native Americans of the Great Plains have lost the last due to the wickedness of the American…
First off, their populations were drastically decreased by up to 90% due to diseases like smallpox and poor treatment from the colonizing people such as the Spaniards. This major change happened because the Native Americans had never been involved in any major trade so their immune system could not fight diseases like the Europeans could. The Native Americans also experienced poor treatment from explorers because they did not have the technology necessary to defend themselves against invaders who had gunpowder and metal armor. Since the Europeans saw that they were stronger than some American civilizations, or saw that they could take them down easily, they completely changed the natives ways of life by putting the into slavery and using them as free labor. All this treatment was so bad that many indians died and in the 16th Century was labelled as the Great…
The white man had more power over them, and they took away the rights and privileges of the Native Americans. The Native American's tried to rebel, but they were unsuccessful, it was unfair that the White man stole the Native Americans ways of life. The children became homesick and powerless when they were trying to change the way they got treated.…
The impact of the white man in the western united states caused many problems for the native Americans, but also helped shape the west. The united states were fairly impacted in many ways because of the arrival of the white man in the early American west in the 1800s. Many Native American tribes lived in the American west but as the white men started arriving and moving westward they pushed the American Indians aside and further populated the west. The Native Americans wanted the land for hunting and gathering while the white man believed that unfarmed land and land that did not obtain permanent homes was a waste. As the Settlers migrated west, the Native American tribe were also made to migrate from their lands to make way for the homes and the railroad being built.…
Native Americans, like the blacks, were injustly abused by the British colonists. Not only did the colonists invade the land that was rightfully the Natives', but they went as far as to killing and destroying if there was resistance. In the notorious Pequot War, English settlers virtually annihilated the Pequot tribe by setting fires to their wigwams and shooting every Native they see.…
The Native Americans had it rough; they were very disliked by many people. The first…
The first true abuse and impact the Native Americans had were when the Spanish Missions on the coast of California would enraptured the Natives. They would be forced into Christianity or death would be upon them off they opposed. The Natives had no other options but to be forced in Christianity. With California in the pursuit of statesmanship, the indians had to be relocated. Even Peter Hardeman Burnett, the first governor of California, openly admitted to his contempt for the native population and demanded that the Native American population be removed or extinct. In our Openstax US history book, in section 17.4, subsection: claiming land, relocating landowners , it says “On the eve of westward expansion, as many as 250,000 Indians, representing a variety of tribes, populated the Great Plains. Previous wars against these tribes in the early nineteenth century, as well as the failure of earlier treaties, had led to a general policy of the forcible removal of many tribes in the eastern United States. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 resulted in the infamous ‘Trail of Tears’.” In fact, under his leadership, many white settlers were paid bounties in exchange for Indian scalps. As a result, a bounty hunt of sorts had begun. White settlers were now determined to hunt down and kill Native Americans to cash in on their rewards. This hunt was the forefront of white society for some time until the Native American population was almost completely decimated in 1890. According to our OpenStax online textbook, section 17.4, subsection: American Indian Submission states that, “...neither the Sioux nor any other Plains tribe followed this battle with any other armed encounter. Rather, they either returned to tribal life or fled out of fear of remaining troops, until the U.S. Army arrived in greater…
First, the British had a much larger, and well trained standing army then the Indians. Second, the Indians had no steady stream of supplies, they were completely reliant on what they could scavenge from raids and encounters with the British soldiers. Third, the Natives were not unified under one banner to combat against the invading British. In reality the most significant reason the Natives were defeated was the outbreak of smallpox. The Indian population had plummeted to an estimated 16,000.[2] In the end; the Indians were defeated by something they had no control…
The “Americans” were willing to conquer all the American land, but first they had to destroy Indian culture even by killing thousands of natives. First the Indians were confined into reservations that didn't allow them to free-roam as they had always been used to. They had to stay into defined borders, they couldn't travel around anymore, they couldn't hunt their food anymore, they could just hand down their traditions to they youngsters and hope for a brighter future.…