Life in the 19th century was hard for the Indians to adjust to. The Westerners decided to claim as much as they could. So how could the Indians adjust to such living conditions that had just been pushed onto their land? In recent years the Americans only remembered the Indians when we celebrate “Thanksgiving” and of course the myths and legends of Pocahontas. Sure that was part of the Indian culture only affecting the influence it had on America. There are many things can contribute to this. Indians didn’t have much respect or say in what they wanted. Many of them tried to fight for their land because to them it was sacred land that their “ancestors” gave to them. The Indian removal act proved to the Indians that no one cared of their land and just wanted to prosper for themselves rather than for history and tradition. We made the Indians move farther and farther west away from their homeland and across the Mississippi river. Never understanding the importance of the land creating “vanishing Indians”. This soon became a role in history. Most could support the “vanishing Indian” but in history that isn’t true.
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Whether the Indians vanished it wasn’t a choice to adapt to the modern ways, it was more of a possessive way of pushing them out. Their tribes meant everything to them trying to remain independent they did not feel necessary to get comfortable with the modern ways and to stick by their own beliefs. The “vanishing Indian” was not true due to the fact that we kept pushing them west. There was no way for them to vanish because of our constant desire of land. The source from Touring Indian country 1888 and 1894 talks about the “few indians” that live in such land and the Indians are now indulged into “agricultural and industrial pursuits” this land has a garden which had no real guidance for the Indian culture. The “vanishing Indian” had created much to discuss. Whether the Indian was noble or ignoble proved to the Americans if the Indian could be civilized. The whites reasoning became that inevitable extinction of the Indians. They hinted at the loss of hospitality and courage only regarding the Indians as savages. This ensured the Americans that the Indians were headed towards extinction. In the Indian culture you think of fires and gathering food and socializing and most importantly HUNTING. To the Indians hunting was a major part of their culture or “ways of living” in which they created distinct habits of hunting. But while the Americans kept pushing the Indians away, they kept taking their land and resources. In all this was a major conflict between the two. One side wanted what the others didn’t have.This continues to carry over today. Some could argue that the bison had gradually disappeared, but the truth was right after the civil war there bison were completely wiped out. This was a huge factor to the living condition of the Indians in the west. This created tension between Americans and the Indians. But to the dismay of the Indians the Americans won by the numerous amounts of our military men helping and aiding the needs of the Americans rather to the needs of the Indians. This created the name “reservation” rather than the “land” or “vast amounts of fields” it was condensed to the small simple plan for their tribe to create a reservation. Despite their small and dense land there were good times the Indians shared. but in order to keep their “reservation” safe there was much fighting to be done. In history's you will see the heroic figure to be a cowboy and that the difference between the cowboy and the Indian was civilization and the savage. The misconceptions that America has been telling is far from the truth of the Indian culture. Not all Indians were bad and not all were good, but they certainly weren’t the animals as some would see. The western hero was sought out by the cowboy and the savages were the Indians, but in context it might have been flipped around. This mistreatment carries over throughout history. While the Indians were being rejected and denied anything but to move for
Whether the Indians vanished it wasn’t a choice to adapt to the modern ways, it was more of a possessive way of pushing them out. Their tribes meant everything to them trying to remain independent they did not feel necessary to get comfortable with the modern ways and to stick by their own beliefs. The “vanishing Indian” was not true due to the fact that we kept pushing them west. There was no way for them to vanish because of our constant desire of land. The source from Touring Indian country 1888 and 1894 talks about the “few indians” that live in such land and the Indians are now indulged into “agricultural and industrial pursuits” this land has a garden which had no real guidance for the Indian culture. The “vanishing Indian” had created much to discuss. Whether the Indian was noble or ignoble proved to the Americans if the Indian could be civilized. The whites reasoning became that inevitable extinction of the Indians. They hinted at the loss of hospitality and courage only regarding the Indians as savages. This ensured the Americans that the Indians were headed towards extinction. In the Indian culture you think of fires and gathering food and socializing and most importantly HUNTING. To the Indians hunting was a major part of their culture or “ways of living” in which they created distinct habits of hunting. But while the Americans kept pushing the Indians away, they kept taking their land and resources. In all this was a major conflict between the two. One side wanted what the others didn’t have.This continues to carry over today. Some could argue that the bison had gradually disappeared, but the truth was right after the civil war there bison were completely wiped out. This was a huge factor to the living condition of the Indians in the west. This created tension between Americans and the Indians. But to the dismay of the Indians the Americans won by the numerous amounts of our military men helping and aiding the needs of the Americans rather to the needs of the Indians. This created the name “reservation” rather than the “land” or “vast amounts of fields” it was condensed to the small simple plan for their tribe to create a reservation. Despite their small and dense land there were good times the Indians shared. but in order to keep their “reservation” safe there was much fighting to be done. In history's you will see the heroic figure to be a cowboy and that the difference between the cowboy and the Indian was civilization and the savage. The misconceptions that America has been telling is far from the truth of the Indian culture. Not all Indians were bad and not all were good, but they certainly weren’t the animals as some would see. The western hero was sought out by the cowboy and the savages were the Indians, but in context it might have been flipped around. This mistreatment carries over throughout history. While the Indians were being rejected and denied anything but to move for