Native Americans Have Prided Upon Their Culture

In the opinion piece “Save Wounded Knee” by Lakota American and New York Times writer Joseph Brings Plenty, Joseph makes many shocking points about life as a Native American today. Joseph argues that Native Americans have to fight to save their culture in today's society because of people auctioning off their land, poverty, and a forced assimilation. The purpose of Joseph writing this piece is mainly to raise awareness to activists about the horrible things that have happened in the past and that currently happen to Native Americans living on the reserve. Joseph points out how for native Americans it is very hard for them to keep their culture when their land is being auctioned off to the highest bidder, when the reserve they live on is riddled

In the conclusion, he argues that Indian reservations and land rights were achievements earned by the Indians through anticolonial resistance, and that, despite the American’s attempts over three centuries to fully assimilate and erase the Indians, they have been able to hold on to their culture and identity.

Hello Tamara Thank you for the insight on the federal Indian termination policies durning the 1950’s,and our selfish acts in attempting to move Indians off reservations and into subruban areas, I feel that justice could never be made for the todays native americans simply because the suffering we put their ansestors through could never take away the tears or pain we inflicted on them ,even though our federal government had even initiated a policy of removal as well as termination of the native americans under this particular policy that was souly created so the Native American people would no longer be government wards on reservations which todays era they are entiltled for the most psrt “subject to the same laws and entitled to the same privileges

The build up of these colonial stances and its subsequent mistreatments led to increased political, economic, and social challenges towards Indigenous communities, such as poverty and loss of land, that overall puts the Native Americans in a bad spot with less to no advantages at rebuilding these descriptions from European-centered writers. Unlike his derogatory language, James criticized “friend of the Indian” philanthropy for efforts attempting to “civilize” Native Americans and suggested listening and learning from the Indigenous communities instead. In the same line, Vizenor speaks on how the Federal Indian Policy should be created upon a foundation of respect to Native Americans’ histories and cultures molded by the insider experiences, eventually helping to provide an alternative approach that honors the Native American identity, unlike archival writings such as Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (Vizenor,

The Indians did establish schools, develop written language and laws and even became sedentary farmers. Even though they had done all this to become a citizen they were still not recognized. They gave up hunting to adapt the European-American culture. The policy was designed to remove the Native Americans by the American government. The Indian Removal Act was not just created in the 1830’s but was culminated in the nineteenth century.

The United States sent armies into the Native American lands, mistreating the Native Americans, and caused trouble against them by sparkling conflicts and wars. “It is not, of course, to be understood that the government of the United States is at the mercy of Indians; but thousands of its citizens are, even thousands of families. Their exposed situation on the extreme verge of settlement affords a sufficient justification to the government for buying off the hostility of the Savages, excited and exasperated as they are…by the invasion of their hunting grounds and the threatened extinction of their game.” (Document 4) The United States government introduced policies for Native Americans to have a better life, but in fact, they kept them in

The Trail of Broken Treaties protest, a historic protest in 1972 led by the American Indian Movement (AIM), sheds light on the long-standing injustices endured by Indigenous peoples in the United States. The Trail of Broken Treaties unveiled a complex history marked by broken promises and strained relations between the U.S. government and Indigenous tribes. It also served as a catalyst for increased awareness and public discourse surrounding Native American rights and the necessity of reform. The protest allows for an examination of the transformation in government-Indigenous relations, the unification of different tribes and strength demonstrated by AIM, and the resulting impact on policies affecting Indigenous communities. Analyzing these

The founders knew something had to be done about the Indians and make more room for the nation to grow, but were unsure how to go about it. Having won its independence from the British Empire, the United States turned to build what Jefferson called “an empire of liberty.” In this empire, all citizens shared the benefits. But—and this was a question that plagued the nation and the national conscience for generations—who qualified as citizens?

Native Americans flourished in North America, but over time white settlers came and started invading their territory. Native Americans were constantly being thrown and pushed off their land. Sorrowfully this continued as the Americans looked for new opportunities and land in the West. When the whites came to the west, it changed the Native American’s lives forever. The Native Americans had to adapt to the whites, which was difficult for them.

Adam Sorenson Prof. Riggs COMP 01112 2/12/18 Misrepresentation of Native Americans Native American’s for many years now have been viewed as lone warriors or squaw, some people don’t even know that they still exist! People just think of the Native American people in storybook tales and nothing more then that. The Native Americans have been living in the United States for awhile now and were the first ones on the country’s soil. They were here way before Christopher Columbus and the other European Colonists even discovered America and they are still present in the U.S.

Losing one’s cultural knowledge, and therefore the reality of their culture, allows others to have control over their collective and individual consciousness as well as their destiny. In this case, it is clear that the United States government has had the dominant relationship over the Native

The constant harassment and dehumanization that characterize their entire existence have polluted what was once their native land. For our nation to move forward in history we must fix what was once an act of true savagery, which can only be achieved by compensating for the land stolen from its rightful indigenous owners.   The way of life for the European settlers negatively affected Native life. Their horses, guns, and men were too advanced and controlled hunting and food. Tribes who

In the book, The Cherokee Removal, Perdue and Green argue that the Cherokee Nation was treated unfairly by the U.S. Government in the 1800s. The majority of Americans were not fond of the Native Americans, and the Americans felt as if the Native Americans were on their rightfully owned property. Perdue and Green display how the states were trying to remove the Natives when they write, “A state could use its legal institutions to make life for Indians so miserable that they would gladly sell their lands and flee to the West” (Perdue and Green, 73).

This period was described as [one] whose Constitution is so perfect that no man suggests change and whose fundamental laws as they stand are satisfactory to all..” However, while both Native Americans and European immigrants theoretically experienced similar rights to those of citizens and were granted citizenship/naturalization in the early twentieth century, both groups lived in crude and unsatisfactory conditions in the 19th century; it would be inaccurate to describe their situation as “satisfactory” at all. During the 19th century, Native Americans lived unsatisfactory lives due to forced assimilation and the dissolution of their identities and sovereignty. At the beginning of the 19th century, Native Americans and Americans had gotten into a series of conflicts as a result of American migration to the west, the lands that the Native Americans

Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less than respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land, and to achieve this goal, the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history, and the US government made many treatments with the Native Americans, making big changes on the Indian nation. Native Americans wanted to live peacefully with the white men, but the result of treatments and agreements was not quite peaceful. This precedent of mistreatment of minorities began with Andrew Jackson’s indian removal policies to the tribes of Oklahoma (specifically the Cherokee indians) in 1829 because of the lack of respect given to the indians during the removal laws.