How Are Native Americans Treated Inhumanly

Native Indians were mistreated, and massacre by the white people, whom they thought where friendly people. They had been told a tale that one day the white men would return, and both races would live in peace. When the white men arrive Natives received them with kindness. Little did they know that the reason they came was not for them but for the gold in the mines. Natives where force to leave their reservations, others died of diseases brought by the foreigners, and some were hunted by bounty hunters. Thus, the native populations diminish, and white settlers took over their property. Prior to the arrival of the white men there was an estimate of 310,000 to 705,00 native people. In The Weight of Gold, were told the history by the natives point of view, we are told of all the injustice natives …show more content…
“In both 1851 and 1852 the New American state of California paid out one million dollars respectively – revenue from the gold fields—to those who hunted Indians.” [3]. Native Indians were treated inhumanly. Some native tribes were trick into treaties. For example, “In the northwest the Modoc were tricked into a cold blooded ambush after accepting an invitation to a peace-making feast.” [4]. This is one of the many ways settlers used with an intention of gathering as many tribes to kill them. Once word got around to other tribes many started leaving these peace treaties only to be killed in the process. The settlers had no intentions of peace. According to Grave Matters, “What is apparent, however, is that the decimation of native peoples in northwest California was bloody, rapid, and different than what happened in most other parts of the United States” [5]. There is no way to know how many Indians died of a massacre, infectious diseases, starvation and despair. However, Platt says Natives experience different treatment from what most others experience. Which makes me think was horrible things did others