The Native Americans were people that had their own beliefs, traditions, costumes, and tribes. These tribes were groups of people in which they believed were family. They had their own lands in which the Americans tried day by day to take away from them. They couldn't accept that the Native Americans were the ones who discovered these lands first and they came in as immigrants. This came to be known as the Dakota Sioux, and then the people from Dakota were forced to be put into reservation. They were treated differently and weren't treated fairly either.
The whites tried to force the Native Americans to do something they didn’t want because they believed in different things as in religion and costumes. The Americans wanted the Indians too believe in Christianity and not in their religion. The whites wanted to change them into something so much different than what they were and taught. They also wanted the Native Americans to change their names into Christian names. They couldn’t conform themselves with taking away their land and lying to them and never paying them what they agreed on doing. The whites tried so much to change the Native Americans as a replica of themselves. This was called in other words assimilation.
The whites forced the Native Americans to move from their home land to benefit themselves from it, in which the only ones who benefit themselves were the whites. In other words they thought about themselves and not the Native Americans or neither in the needs and wants. The congress made an Act in which was called the Indian Removal Act where it was composed to move and relocate the Native Americans from their land to provide the European-American expansion in the United States. It was referred as a way the Americans were gaining and the Native American loosing.
There were violence between the two sides, the whites and the Native Americans. The Native Americans were calm and tried to have passions with the whites. They tried to put violence aside but sometimes it was difficult to handle. In many occasions the whites would contract some tribes from the Native Americans to fight between their race and other tribes. The whites tried anything to get what they wanted. The Indian tribes were known for scalping. It was a method in which was use to use a knife and cut the scalp of and immediately that would let the person to have severe bleeding and die to death. The Indians and the Whites had times that they would battle each other but the Native Americans didn’t have the same armor materials as the whites did. There was a lot of violence, especially in the Wounded Knee Massacre in which there were many lives killed between both sides.
Native Americans suffered from the whites actions. They were never considered as normal human beings that could have their own rights, religions and thoughts. They were treated unfairly until the point that most were massacred cruelly. They were lied, mistreated, and killed, the whites never allowed them to have the certain rights as all people should have had. The whites wanted the Native Americans to be just like them, they thought there race was perfect and others weren’t it was a way to be shown as “racism”. They tried to force them to believe in a religion they didn’t want to as Christianity. They proved themselves to be a cruel and child hearted people toward the Native Americans. At the end, no one will ever forget about these events that occurred. They will always be remembered in the story of history.
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