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How Were Native Americans Treated Over Time Essay

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Valeria Cazares
Mr. Villalobos
U.S History
17 February 2023
U.S. History Final
How Have The Native Americans Been Treated Over Time?
Could They Have Avoided Conflict? Throughout United States history, Americans have treated Native Americans as unequals and forced suffering on Native Americans. Native Americans were subjected to countless massacres and cruel treatment that could have been prevented. Struggling to advance in society while being driven out of their culture, their lands, and their once made promises. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, Native Americans received a proposal to unknowingly deny their identity and form part of a new identity, the white settlers. “President of the United States, Jefferson developed what he considered to be a rather generous policy to encourage native peoples to assimilate” (Kubic 6). Assimilating that the Native Americans would take in and embrace the white settlers culture, language, and …show more content…

Native Americans were mistreated, and as a result, they too started to rebel and defend their territory. “Red River War…their mounts and supplies were so depleted that they could not survive the winter on the plains and were forced to enter the reservation” (Comanche Reading 4). The settlers eventually took control of them and forced them to cede their lands, their ancestral lands. The numerous conflicts and wars that Native Americans were involved in also resulted in a decline in their population. Such as the Wounded Knee massacre, site of two conflicts between Native Americans and U.S. representatives. “An 1890 massacre left 150 Native Americans dead” (Wounded Knee 1). As well as the Red River War, “The Comanche population had been reduced to 1,597” (Comanche Reading 5). With its intended purpose of wiping all Indians to the reservation. A complete annihilation of Native tribes, their families and their populations; conflicts and killings that could have been

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