Not very well! I'm not sure what we could have done better, but I am sure we did some things we should be ashamed of. And we are still doing them. Take a look at some of the reservations out west. They are shameful.
May 26, 1830, Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress. Land greed was a big reason for government's position on Indian removal.
The US forced Native Americans to live on reservations.
The experiences of Hawaiians and Native Americans in the 1800s were similar in that they both had to deal with oppression
The US stole all the Native Americans land.
The Native Americans lost a great deal. Without the French, Native Americans could not stop British settlers from moving on their lands
Sam Houston made a deal with the Native Americans. Native Americans would stop raiding Texas settlements while Texas was settling in to being a free country and trying to annex the US as long as they could stay in Texas.
The US forced Native Americans to live on reservations.
Jackson created the Trail of Tears, which removed all the Native Americans to the west of the Mississippi River
The experiences of Hawaiians and Native Americans in the 1800s were similar in that they both had to deal with oppression
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The spread of European diseases had the greatest impact on Native Americans. Large numbers were wiped out by these foreign diseases they were unprepared to deal with.
The US stole all the Native Americans land.
The Native Americans lost a great deal. Without the French, Native Americans could not stop British settlers from moving on their lands
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The newly founded nation dealt with Native Americans very harshly. Their land was taken, they were killed and forced to move.
The newly founded nation dealt with Native Americans very harshly. Their land was taken, they were killed and forced to move.
Sam Houston made a deal with the Native Americans. Native Americans would stop raiding Texas settlements while Texas was settling in to being a free country and trying to annex the US as long as they could stay in Texas.
The policy of the Native Americans was one of genocide, and removal. The unwritten policy was a " good Indian, was a dead one" and everything was done to make sure that was true. Native Americans were removed from homelands, killed in raids on villages, given blankets with smallpox on them, starved, walked to death, hung, placed in camps and reservations, taken to schools away from families, and lied to.