Native American Essay

Europeans’ demands of the Natives were unreasonable and led to brutal wars. The Europeans came out on top and now had power over the Native Americans (Hirschfelder 8). The Natives caught new diseases brought by the Europeans that their immune systems could not fight (comma not necessary here?) which wiped out many of the Native people. The loss of people cleared more land for the colonists thus expanding the European dominance over the New World. Boundaries were set to let the Natives keep some of the land; however, they were not enforced (Hirschfelder 9). In the early nineteenth century, things began to change (Hirschfelder 9). Tecumseh, a Shawnee leader encouraged all native tribes to band together and refuse to give up any more land. In the early-mid 1800s, the United States Indian office began to physically remove Natives from their land and force them to assimilate them into white culture. Some tribes moved, but some refused. This prompted Andrew Jackson to convince Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830, forcing almost all the Native tribes still east of the Mississippi River to leave their homes and travel west. When they were relocated to the Indian Territory, they had to learn to live with the other tribes who were already there. Missionaries and…

though the people who live on this land today are not the same culture as before, many traits and ideas have tested time and still live in the culture of Americans. These traits are either positive or negative. The traits influence the culture of Americans. The first people of America were Native Americans, and they were a foraging culture (hunters and gathers) and a culture that has a connection to nature spirituality. The Native Americans are story-tellers that depicts nature with having a big…

Indians facing persecution turn to Native American religion and practice traditional sacred ceremonies in order to escape the reality of the psychological and physical mistreatment they face within American society. Mary Crow Dog was a Sioux Indian of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. (Pg.5) As a child Crow Dog attended the St. Francis boarding school where Indian children were forced to assimilate and faced with punishment if they disobeyed. (Pg.4) Crow Dog became involved with the…

Similarly, when the first colonizers arrived at the North American continent, they concluded that America was deserted and empty. However, they realized that they had company when they figured out that the land had been inhabited for a considerable amount of time by the Native Americans. Since the colonizers did not make an effort to live peacefully amongst the Native Americans, the following generations lacked the trust of the Native American Community and knowledge on maintaining good…

Native Americans all across North America have been mistreated since the Europeans first arrived. Despite being treated slightly better than the dust on the ground, they mainly kept to their ways. They never took too much from the land, and many tribes had a well formed way of life. Fast forward to around the 1800’s and they are still living this way, but many are being mistreated. Europeans explored and took land at every chance. This led to many of the remaining Native Americans to be on the…

The article, Racism American Style and Resistance to Change: Art Education’s Role in the Indian Mascot Issue, by Elizabeth M. De La Cruz, centers around the negative effects that using Native Americans as mascots can have on the Native American community. De La Cruz points out that our ignorance has prevented us from seeing the error in our ways, thus the lack of understanding of Native American culture enables us to keep misinterpreting their culture and rituals by making them our school…

settlers, it wrecked havoc on the lives of the Native Americans. The new settlers, both knowingly and unknowingly harmed the Natives in numerous ways, which caused terrible consequences. Major problems for the Native Americans caused by the settlers were the spreading of diseases, economic ruin, and unrightful taking of land. When the European settlers arrived in North America, they brought all kinds of goods, but they also brought things they were not aware of. Having lived on an…

Roman wanted Nature Americans to live by their culture and morals; they wanted them to live behind all these beliefs. Christianity was the way. The 1517 Protestant Reformation mark a change for Europeans religiously. Roman Catholic came about doing this time period. Many English Protestant believed that Catholic believer were inferior to the nation itself. English beliefs of their cultural and racial superiority came before anything therefore Nature American and Anglo-Saxon had to go. Anyone who…

or Heinous? Honorable, historical, and humble: these are all words that can be used to describe the Native Americans and their rich and fascinating culture. When we talk about Native Americans, we often talk about their struggles throughout history. Recently, there has been a new struggle with the Native Americans involving controversy of whether or not the mascots used for sports teams are offensive. Emotions and opinions tend to influence mankind more than reason, but throughout all of the…

culture or Native American culture (Webster’s 69). The fusion and hybridization of cultures is a common practice and can be beneficial to the progression of society, but it can also be harmful if abused. For example, many people consider the use of Native American imagery in sports to be a harmless practice, while…