Why did native Americans struggle alot?

Question

The native Americans from the 1800's the pioneers..

Answer 1

Native Americans did just fine in the world they lived in. The white man moved in and upset their culture. The white man spread disease and killed them outright. The natives were lied to just to swindle them out of the land that was theirs to begin with.

Answer 2

The biggest problems the Native Americans struggled against in the 1800s was the invasion of the white man.
The white man had no respect for sacred grounds.
The white man wanted to "own" the land, and the Native Americans didn't believe anyone could own the land.
The white man took what he wanted and left the rest to rot, while the Native American used everything he took.
The Native Americans tried to share but the white man wanted to shove them aside onto reservations.

Answer 3

They are still struggling. Their land was taken.
Their culture was stolen. Native children were taken from their families and were taught not to be 'savages', they were raised in American schools so that it would take the Native American culture out of them and that they would forget about their past.
People think that they get so much money from Casinos and "government support", but drive through a reservation...and show me the wonderful living conditions...Show me the lavish lifestyle that they are living in. I've yet to see a mansion on a reservation.

Answer 4

Because the White men tried to exterminate them so they could steal their lands If they Native Americans would have all had the weapons the white man had available to them the Native Americans would have sent the white man back to Europe with his tail between his legs

Answer 5

they couldn't cope with the change that was happening the their land, instead of making lemonade out the their lemons they lost their self esteem and motivation and many became alcoholics. putting them even further behind, it is sad, native Americans are nice people and they get a lot of free stuff from the US government, but not many know how or want to take advantage of all the benefits they get.

Answer 6

Nope. community individuals residing in the constraints of the u . s . come from 500+ diverse countries. We entered into treaties with colonial powers and the USA and our aborginal identify to the land became, and nonetheless is, known. We fought to maintain our way of existence, yet after armed resistance became over we fought for our legal rights in court docket. we don't back theocratic, extremist governments (HAMAS or Fatah are purely 2 aspects of an particularly violent coin). Tribal individuals have twin American and Tribal citizenship and this technique works out very properly for us. community individuals are not blowing up college buses or wedding ceremony receptions or hijacking jets, and so on. Many tribes are doing o.k. economically and we remember on close collaboration with non-tribal society. conversing of "no suitable to the land," it became curiously fantastic with the Ottomans controlled this area, and it became very properly as long because of the fact the Jews remained a minority, yet whilst the demographics shifted, it particularly is whilst the subject concerns began. there have been Jews residing in that area on account that historical circumstances, purely in smaller numbers. it is humorous whilst Palestinians and Jews argue over who's indigenous or has a suitable to the land whilst they are in reality from an identical Semitic and indigenous inventory and Hebrew and Arabic are linguistically very comparable. the main distinction between the Palestinian human beings and my tribe is that my human beings have been MATRILINEAL. we don't have faith in the patriarchal society that subjegates females. Our prolonged kinfolk mothers held sway over our politics or maybe the call to circulate to conflict. the only wish Palestinians have is that in the event that they shop on with a path of non-violence and reject theocracy and fundamentalism. which would be their splendid undertaking. i individually can no longer stand whilst human beings make this assessment between Natives and Palestinians. Our histories and cultures are dramatically diverse.

Answer 7

OKAY ASIDE FROM ALL THE RIDICULOUSLY IGNORANT ANSWERS BY SOME OF THE PEOPLE ABOVE...SOME ANSWERS ARE VERY WELL PUT.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LIVED WELL, BEFORE THE EUROPEANS CAME. EACH TRIBE HAD ITS OWN COUNCIL OR SOME FORM OF GOVERNMENTAL PARTY, WITH THE IROQUOIS BEING OF THE MORE ADVANCED OF ALL. IN 1987 THE US SENATE OFFICIALLY STATED THAT THE US CONSTITUTION WAS INDEED MODELED AFTER THE IROQUOIS CONSTITUTION. THE EUROPEANS WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE LONG STANDING LAW OF THE IROQUOIS (HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE EURO-INVASION) AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS MORE ADVANCED THAN ANY CONFEDERATION KNOWN IN THE WORLD, THAT THEY USED THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION TO IMPRESS THEIR VERY OWN CONSTITUTION...THE ONE THAT IS STILL DISPLAYED PROUDLY BY AMERICANS TODAY!...

SO, BESIDES THE FACT THAT EUROPEANS SLAUGHTERED TORTURED AND STOLE FROM THE VERY PEOPLE THAT TAUGHT THEM HOW TO SURVIVE THIS "NEW WORLD", THE NATIVES WOULD HAVE POPULATED THE ENTIRETY OF THIS TURTLE ISLAND, IN HARMONY...WE STRUGGLED TRYING TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES, OUR CULTURE, OUR TRADITIONS, OUR HEALTH, OUR VERY WAY OF LIFE...AS WE STILL DO TODAY.

OH AND BY THE WAY (TO THOSE WHO MADE THOSE IGNORANT REMARKS ABOUT ALCOHOL) "BOOZE" WAS AN UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE TO MY ANCESTORS, BEFORE THE WHITES CONTAMINATED THE VILLAGES WITH IT.

Answer 8

Um, cause the Europeans came and "discovered" their land and squandered their resources and killed them and forced the survivors to live on reservations? Huh, whatcha think?

Answer 9

What do you mean why did they struggle alot.They are still struggling to stis very day.Living in a shack on a resorvation is no way to have to live.

Answer 10

Because they were being forcibly evicted from their land, hunted down and killed by settlers and the US government?