Our past with the Native Americans has been nothing but awful. We pushed them off of their land and deemed it ours, and still have never apologized for it. Our harmful acts against them in the past can easily correlate to the conditions they face today, as they never got a fair chance at life since the Europeans first came to America, continuing on through further centuries. During the 1800s, American settlers forced the Native Americans into white culture, with no regard to their right of a free life. We forced them into reservations, and brutally murdered and hurt many of their people, with the sole reason of greed. In the Ted Talk, America’s Native Prisoners of War, Aaron Heuy says, “The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one
