The Expulsion of Native Americans
The Expulsion of Native Americans
Since the beginning of the United States, this nation has been faced with the question of what place do the Native Americans have in the American society. At different points of time, Natives have been treated as individual nations, granted sovereignty by the U.S, as U.S citizens, and as dependants of the federal government or a mixture of all of these. Ever since the first steps of Columbus, Native Americans have been placed in an awkward position. Europeans hungered for land since the beginning and nothing else seemed to fill them up. This ideology transgressed into U.S policy during the 19th century. When the United States won its independence from Great Britain in 1783, it not only inherited land from the Appalachian Mountains, but also conflicts over Indian policy and disputed land claims. U.S policy toward Natives has been changing do to certain circumstances. For Example Andrew Jackson was a brutal leader and was mainly responsible for the removal of Native Americans to the west of the Mississippi. Natives have been treated as uncivilized savages forced to move from their homes and were repeatedly taken advantage by having to sign false treaties. U.S policy towards Native Americans during the 19th century consisted of seizing land rightfully belonging to the Natives by any means, whether by force or fraudulent treaties, U.S expansion was unstoppable.
By the 1830's U.S policy had started to take shape and a set of principles were set in place. There were six different focus areas that the federal government targeted in order to maintain or try to maintain peace with the Natives:
(1) Protect Indian Rights to their land by setting distinct boundaries, restricting incoming white settlers from the area except under certain controls.
(2) Preventing private individuals or local governments to acquire land from the Indians by purchase or any other means.
(3) Regulation of Indian trade by setting conditions under which
Since the beginning of the United States, this nation has been faced with the question of what place do the Native Americans have in the American society. At different points of time, Natives have been treated as individual nations, granted sovereignty by the U.S, as U.S citizens, and as dependants of the federal government or a mixture of all of these. Ever since the first steps of Columbus, Native Americans have been placed in an awkward position. Europeans hungered for land since the beginning and nothing else seemed to fill them up. This ideology transgressed into U.S policy during the 19th century. When the United States won its independence from Great Britain in 1783, it not only inherited land from the Appalachian Mountains, but also conflicts over Indian policy and disputed land claims. U.S policy toward Natives has been changing do to certain circumstances. For Example Andrew Jackson was a brutal leader and was mainly responsible for the removal of Native Americans to the west of the Mississippi. Natives have been treated as uncivilized savages forced to move from their homes and were repeatedly taken advantage by having to sign false treaties. U.S policy towards Native Americans during the 19th century consisted of seizing land rightfully belonging to the Natives by any means, whether by force or fraudulent treaties, U.S expansion was unstoppable.
By the 1830's U.S policy had started to take shape and a set of principles were set in place. There were six different focus areas that the federal government targeted in order to maintain or try to maintain peace with the Natives:
(1) Protect Indian Rights to their land by setting distinct boundaries, restricting incoming white settlers from the area except under certain controls.
(2) Preventing private individuals or local governments to acquire land from the Indians by purchase or any other means.
(3) Regulation of Indian trade by setting conditions under which