ferderal government policies toward native americans in the 1830s to the 1930s?

Question

summarization and explaintion about them

Answer 1

google this one and get many answers. use "indians + Jackson"
"grant" and other presidents. look up wounded knee You will see that the government became worse to the indian after Custer's 7th cavalry was wiped out by sitting bull.

Remember the eastern Indians were sent west to Oklahoma in the early 1800s.
The movie like indian conflicts happened after the civil war 1861-1865.

Be sure to define and describe the 'reservations' that the indians were put on to live, and the "nations' status.

Essentially, there were about 10million indians in North america when Europeans came to America. Even then, they were fighting among themselves over resources and land. Their culture didn't use land as intensely as the farming, ranching, mining, lumber industries of the Europeans. Disease, such as mumps, measles <--simple childhood diseases to which the indians had little immumity,) and small pox wiped out many of them.

The indian culture was without horses or the wheel until the Europeans came. The spanish horses got loose, went wild and spread over the continent, and were highly prized. With horses, Indians could follow the buffalo and the plains indian of the movies came to be and lasted only a couple of hundred years.

The main result of the Federal Government policies was death, disease and dispair for the ever diminishing number of Indians living as Indians.


The government was in general destructive to the well being of the Indians. Some good or well meaning efforts were made, then not completed. Some promises were made in treaties that were later not honored. The policies often kept the Indians separate, not brought into general society.

Answer 2

During the early colonial period, European numbers were few and American Indians were still relatively powerful. Thus it was in the interest of the first settlers to treat Indians as soveriegn and equal nations. Later, the settler population (enhanced by technology only available to Indians hap-hazardly by second-hand means) increased, while Native populations (reduced by disease and loss of sustainable live-styles) decreased. And European settlers began to push Indian nations further west in the quest for more and more land. Indians during this time began to be regarded as barbarians and subhumans to justify the shabby manner in which they were being treated. Later still, after most tribes had been "pacified" (read: reduced in numbers, and beaten into submission), it became expedient to regard Indians from a paternalistic outlook. Indians were denied citizenship until 1924 because they were regarded as incompetent (as minor children) to testify under oath, vote responsibly, etc. Instead, Indians were herded onto reservations for their own protection and well-being. Never mind the fact that over 99% of their land was now open to settlement. Indian children were sent to boarding schools where their hair was cut, where they were beaten for speaking their own languages, and where they were required to wear uniforms and learn trades. They were told that their old ways of life were primitive, and their old religions were mere superstitions. A blood quantum standard was set up with the unstated (but real) intention of defining Indians out of existence as they began to intermarry with other peoples. This has been a quiet form of genocide. The US Government does not attempt to determine who is Jewish enough to be a Jew, or Arabic enough to be an Arab, or Asian enough to be Asian, or Hispanic enough to be Hispanic. But to this day, the US Government continues to do exactly that with regard to American Indians. By the way, the "benefits" that some Indian people receive are NOT welfare, but are regarded as payment in kind for the land transferred by the tribes to the US Government.

Answer 3

Go to the National Park Service website below and click on topics, then on Native Americans. Lots of helpful sites.

Answer 4

Genocide

Answer 5

It was:
out of sight, out of mind
throw them on a federal reservation

Answer 6

You keep your land until we need it, when we want it you will leave. We promise to break all treaties we sign prior to signing anything. We are determined to rape you.

Answer 7

The Indians thought they could stop us with Tomahawks?!, TOMAHAWKS?!?!

Answer 8

extremely oppressive.

Answer 9

Keep your scalp if you can.