The Pros And Cons Of Native Americans

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The first Native American tribes were believed to have crossed over from several regions in Asia thousands of years before any other country “discovered” America. As the Native Americans spread out amongst both Americas they started to quickly build their empires. These civilizations were well established and far more advanced than any other group of people at that time. The Native Americans lived in harmony with one another in New World, but that all changed when the America started to be explored by Europeans and their relationships that developed experienced ups and down; if the Europeans were willing to find alternatives, then any issue with the Native Americans could have been avoided.
A common misconception that people have is the thought that Christopher Columbus was the first ever person to discover America; this is wrong. Columbus was not the first person to discover America. The Native Americans crossed over into America several thousands of years before Europe
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By stopping the Act before it was able to be passed creates a figurative field of acceptance that the Native Americans were allowed to stay in the West. A second alternative would have been for the Americans to share the land with the Natives and give them something in return. By sharing the land the Native Americans might have not felt the pressure to leave and might have been willing to share the land. The Native Americans were able to help the earlier Europeans with hunting, farming, and living off of the land, if the later Americans would have been willing to accept the Natives they could have learned these life-saving tricks. The Native Americans were failed to be treated like actual human being with rights, so if Americans would have acknowledged that then the history between the two parties would have had an alternative

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