how did the united states deal with native americans?

Answer 1

they gave them blanket full of small pox

Answer 2

Well the treatment depends on the individual nation. For instances thoes which supported the confederacy during the Civil War were shipped off to reservations far from their aboriginal land. Largely the Native Americans and First People (as they are called in Canada) were exploited by Europeans but then there were Native Americans which exploited other weaker tribes. Don't forget that it wasn't just the English and French. The Spanish played a hand in the exploitation of the Native Americans and the Native Americans replaced earlier truly Native American cultures. Ask yourself also what Hitler would have done to the American Indian. Civilizations rize and fall, cultures change (just look at contemporary North America campared with America circa 1850 or 1950 for that matter). The Russians were much different in their dealings with the aboriginals. Rather than irraticating the natives cultures the Orthodox Christians missionaries sought to enhance and foster it.

Answer 3

My ancestors screwed the American Indian out of theri land, killed many, and confined most of the remainder to reservations. At least, that's what I was taught in school.

Oh yeah. And many were sold into slavery, some of them sold to English, Spaniards, etc. Which would mean that English and others condoned slavery and also screwed the American Indian.

Answer 4

in the history books, they seemed to be delt with unfairly most of the time, they were rounded up and moved off their land and put on resevoriations and not allowed to move around at their own time. i believe that the native american is the most disscriminated group of people today in the united states bar anyone else.

Answer 5

Harshly. Did you know they didn't even know about scalping until we taught them. I had this as my thesis in High school.
sickness, greed, Indian territories and the attacks on their land , were now belonging to the Americans the British and the French. Soon they were removed by armed forced

"These Indians [Modocs on Fort Bidwell reservation, CA] were allotted individual tracts of land in 1891 and 1894, and although 64,000 acres were parceled out to them, not more than 8,000 acres are of any value agriculturally, and then only when there is water for irrigation; but as that important element is lacking, the possible arable land is practically useless. ( 33rd Annual Report pp. 20)
The living conditions of these Indians [Modocs] are wretched. . . Trachoma is quite prevalent: 60 out of 75 children in the boarding school had contracted the disease. (33rd Annual Report pp. 20)

One would hardly expect, under these deplorable conditions, that the Indians would have any desire to embrace the white mans religion, yet they had erected a crude chapel on the borders of the town of Fort Bidwell. (33rd Annual Report pp. 20)

They [Indians on the Pauma reservation] are surrounded by white ranchers, and there is a considerable demand for their labor, as is the case at other points of the Pala jurisdiction.
(33rd A. R. pp. 23)

It [Ute Mountain Agency] contains 480,000 acres, mostly desert land that is practically worthless, and that part of it capable of irrigation is without water. (33rd A. R. pp. 24)

The present superintendent, Mr. J. E. Jenkins, certainly took up a white mans burden when he assumed charge of this Agency [Ute Mountain Agency]. (33rd A. R. 1915)

They mourn the loss fo their children who leave the reservations to seek jobs and other places to live. They have lost their language and their ancient traditions.

I worked with Indians in Tonapah for awhile. In fact I watched the stadium going up where the will be playing the Superbowl. Glendale Arizona.

Answer 6

American Natives who were a proud race at one time, were slaughtered by the waves of invading immigrants from "cultured" Countries and reduced them to a mere show piece in reserves.

Answer 7

They made it illegal to be a Native American. Seriously. Such laws were not repealed officially until the 1970s.

Answer 8

They "gave" them (their) land and required them to live on it (reservations). Most of it is barren, except for raising sheep. They were bussed off to BIA schools far away from their families and taught English, forbidden to speak their native tongue and practice their traditions. The ones who ran away, were caught and boys were forced to wear girl's clothing to ridicule them.

Recently, the government gave them trailers in which to use to teach school, but they had been contaminated at some point with radiation. And then we wonder why our relations are a bit strained with this ethnic group?

Answer 9

Horrendously! American saw the natives as savages, for the mostpart, spare thise who worked peacefully with them.

Answer 10

Hi,,,, sad but true,, they did not "deal" with them very well or fair in everyones' eyes now.. but when the country was being formed, you just could not have people killing off others who were trying to settle this country.. I know it was not fair, i am not taking sides with the government..

good luck

Answer 11

The ones they didn't starve to death by killing all their game, they slaughtered, or forced them from their homelands. And then to really put the hurt on them, they locked them on reservations so white mens diseases could kill them off. Ever notice how when the army won a battle it was called a victory? But whenever the Indians fought to preserve their territory and actually won, it was called a "massacre?"