The Native Americans tried to defend their territory, but were not strong enough to protect themselves and their homes. They were either killed during the Indian Wars or moved to Indian Reservations. Even today many Native Americans still live on these Indian Reservations. The movement West displaced many Native Americans from their native homes. They were moved to Reservations that were often a long way from their native land. Not long after Congress herded the Native Americans onto Reservations, Congress enacted The Dawes Severalty Act (February 8, 1887) that deprived them of their legal status.
The results of the Native American and American conflicts was almost an annihilation of Native American dominance of the land. Currently many Native Americans have chosen to live on US created reservations that stretch from coast to coast. For the most part it can be said that they are not part of American culture. The settlement of the Federal territories from the middle of 19th century on wards to the early years of the 20th Century saw the deaths of many Native Americans. They were outnumbered and out "gunned" in the face of Federal armies and belligerent settlers and miners.
Today there are over 2 million Native Americans with about 800,000 living on reservations and 1.2 million residing in urban areas throughout America. There are approximately 300 Federal Indian reservations and 500 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. An Indian reservation is an area of land reserved for Native American use. The term tribe has had numerous meanings over the years, and today is considered by many to refer to a distinct group within the Native American culture. (not all tribes are federally recognized) source: http://www.merceronline.com/Native/native10.htm i think that everyone has native American in them but there is still alot of them out there what I've read something like 4.3 million still live true native American idk i got to read more about them<(^>^)>
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Native Americans were forced to learn English. Their children were taken away from their parents and sent to boarding schools so the children did not have a chance to learn culture from their parents. Also many Native Americans were forced to move to reservations which had different plants, animals and even climate from what they were used to.
Montana has seven Native American reservations.
There are no state or federal Indian lands (reservations) in the state of Indiana.
Most were Navajo and Hopi, but some were of other Native American tribes. Many came from the reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.
An Indian reservation is land given to Native Americans from the government. Reservations are managed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. There are 310 reservations in the United States. Because they have limited laws, many Native Americans place casinos on their reservations to attract tourists and increase revenue.
The Native Americans tried to defend their territory, but were not strong enough to protect themselves and their homes. They were either killed during the Indian Wars or moved to Indian Reservations. Even today many Native Americans still live on these Indian Reservations. The movement West displaced many Native Americans from their native homes. They were moved to Reservations that were often a long way from their native land. Not long after Congress herded the Native Americans onto Reservations, Congress enacted The Dawes Severalty Act (February 8, 1887) that deprived them of their legal status.
There are many different regions across the U.S.A. that are Reserved for Indian or Native American land. Those regions are where their reservations were established.
They share a rich Native American history and many geographical similarities.
It is the common border point of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. There are many old abandoned Native American monumental dwellings in that general area.
Many groups of Native Americans were forced to leave their ancestral lands and were moved to reservations in the 1800's.
Many of the Native American tribes experienced an involuntary migration when the US Federal government had the Army forcibly move them to distant Indian Reservations.
The American bison were almost wiped out by deliberate over hunting to deprive the native American tribes of their main food source. This forced many tribes to be moved onto Indian Reservations, or starve.
They lived on reservations.