American Indians have been around for more than 15‚000 years. Although Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492‚ there were already people living in what is now called the United States. During the 1800s‚ American Indians had to deal with all the immigrants from Europe “invading their land”. The Native Americans tried to resist relocation due to the Westward Expansion‚ but because of reduced population through disease and warfare and assimilation with the immigrants‚ they didn’t have much
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disrupted the Native American tribes that had been living peacefully there for centuries. The responses European settlers had to Native American tribes reflected their own cultural and economic viewpoints. As a result‚ the Native Americans’ lives changed drastically. The French had developed peaceful‚ mutually beneficial relations with Native Americans in the establishment of the French fur trade and culturally befriended them. On the other hand‚ the British tended to oppress Native Americans economically
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began to expand West from the original colonies‚ Americans and Native Americans saw the West very distinctively. The US believed in the “divine right” to expand and the Native Americans saw the West as their home and part of their culture. The 19th century time period helps us understand that there is more to the story of Native Americans than how we our taught about them. In order to understand why the destiny of both Americans and Native Americans turned out the way it did‚ we need to explore all
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Native Americans and Criminal Justice Paper One Katlyn Ford Valdosta State University Native Americans and how they have been impacted from colonization and established criminal justice systems is a complex and detailed subject. How is it complex? It is complex because there are numerous different reasons and contributions to the colonization of Native Americans and how this has created criminalization for their so-called “primitive ways/ideology” some of the topics that will be addressed are
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Conflict with Native Americans Read pages 261-267 Cultural differences between settlers and Native Americans often led to conflict between them. White settlers believed they could make better use of the land than Native Americans. The government took the side of the settlers and pushed the Native Americans into reservations to give settlers the land. Beliefs on land use and government strongly differed between Native Americans and settlers. Many settlers felt justified in taking Native American land for
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cultures ‚ Europeans and Native American. Europeans had established communities where they lived and worked. Native Americans had settlements but they moved around a lot they were nomadic . Europeans were usually Christians ‚ but Native Americans believed more in the existence and powers of many other spirits . They had strong‚ central leadership while the Natives tended to do things in harmony ‚ consensus . They also had a little regard for women ‚ while many Native cultures were actually
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other sicknesses that the Native Americans had no way to fight (Kincheloe 2). The Native Americans had zero resistance to the new diseases since they had never been exposed to them before. While the Europeans’ bodies were able to defend against these diseases‚ sickness usually ended in fatality for the Native Americans. Neither the European settlers‚ nor the Native Americans understood what was happening. They couldn’t fathom why the diseases affected the Native Americans so harshly. The spread of
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Risky Relations: A closer look at the relationships between Native Americans and European settlers during the seventeenth century At the start of the seventeenth century‚ Native Americans greeted European settlers with much excitement. They regarded settlers as strange‚ but were interested to learn about the new tools and weapons Europeans brought with them. The native people were more than accommodating to the settlers‚ but as time passed‚ Europeans took advantage of their generosity. “Once
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As an outlet for depression‚ many Native Americans have turned to alcohol. In fact‚ “Native Americans have the highest weekly alcohol consumption of any ethnic group” (Chartier). Alcohol has wreaked havoc on countless Indian communities. For example‚ in The Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ during a short period of time‚ Junior loses his grandmother‚ Eugene‚ and his sister. In Junior’s tribe‚ “about 90 percent of the deaths have been because of alcohol” (Alexie 200). Junior’s grandmother perished when
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In 1830‚ Native Americans were removed from their lands east of the Mississippi and relocated onto reservations west. The US caused this injustice and to amend this‚ the US should give money to the Natives. If the Natives got money‚ they would be able to fix their schools and communities to get better education. The Native Americans were moved off their land when gold was discovered on it. Their rights were ignored and the US took the gold. The US could make up for this by giving some of the money
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