African Americans Should Give Their Land Essay

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I believe the U.S government should give land back to the Native Americans because money wouldn’t do them very good because they want back their land because they were stolen from, the Black Hills from the Great Sioux were stolen because they found gold on those lands. Giving them land is a good things and the U.S can provide them with land and workers to build them new and stable homes and schools so kids won’t drop out and not have a education. The conditions they have on the reservations are not stable and the Native Americans don’t even pick up the trash after they use the product inside, they are so done with their lives they don’t even care what happens to their kids so the grandparents will take care of them while they are doing like drinking alcohol and/or doing drugs. There are many reason why the U.S should give them land, but there are some reason why the U.S government shouldn’t give them land. The U.S government can give land back to the Native Americans because the U.S government took away the land. They're houses were torn apart, and the food they would usually hunt for were all killed by their habitat being …show more content…
I have learned that money can’t buy everything, the U.S government can’t just give them money and have them forget what happened in the past they don’t forget just for the money maybe that’s why the Americans did it the Native Americans because they wanted money because of the gold in the area of thc tribes like Sioux for the Black Hills I like using this example because I like their response to 106 million dollars they were giving them for the Black Hills, the government thinks that money is everything but it isn’t. The U.S relies on money to get them somewhere but the Native Americans were here first then all of us and your ancestors and their

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