The Unfair Treatment Of Native Americans In The 19th Century

Historical injustices, such as the unfair treatment American’s first nations received in the 19th century, could inform us about life in past societies on a great scale.The Indian Removal Act, which is prompted by President Andrew Jackson in 1829, is a bill that forced Native Americans who lived in the east of United States to settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River (Native Americans - Civilizing ), so there were free lands for the Europeans’ settlement. With the concern of people who didn’t want to leave their lands due to religious beliefs, thousand of soldiers entered the natives’ territory and forcibly relocated the natives in 1838. They hunted, imprisoned, raped and murdered native Americans. People who survived the onslaught were forced on a 1000 mile march to the established “Indian Territory”, many died on the way because the government didn’t supplied any food and resources. Approximately 4000 Native Americans died on this journey, therefore the Natives resembled this as the “Trail of Tears” (Berger, Thomas R.).
Ironically, a year after the Civil War, an Union army officer, Kit Carson, led the soldiers to attack one of the tribe, Navajos in the desert Southwest.They destroyed crops, orchards, livestock and homes in a campaign to relocate the tribes to a federal reservation (Meece). Military forces were put down again and again by the government on to the Native Americans to achieve their purposes, and Native Americans could barely resist with the harsh problems they were facing: starvation, diseases, lost of lands and