Discussion 1
The turn of the century in 1900’s, most remaining Native Americans had been forced, to leave their ancestral lands; it was truly a time of cultural assimilation (Assimilation through Education). Some chose to live on the reservations that were created by the U.S. government starting in the 1890s, while others spent their lives hiding from whites whom they feared would kill or capture them. Native Americans world as they new it naturally died out, from progression (Assimilation through Education), they needed to become a part of white society. There Indian language, religion, and art, would become something from the past to be studied or viewed in a museum, but would not be the products of living cultures. "Civilized" white society was seen as the natural end result for all humanity.
The goal of bringing Native Americans into "civilized" white society backfired as white-educated Native Americans and those increasingly familiar with white society, laws, and government started organizing and fighting alongside whites for Native American rights to land, religion, and education in the early 1900’s(Barnes, Bowles, 2014). This struggle for Native …show more content…
They were a group that suffered racial discrimination, economic disadvantages, exclusion, and misery. As one of the more disadvantaged groups in American Society, Native Americans looked to the New Deal for help and guidance. However, it was until 1933 that federal Indian policies were designed to integrate Native Americans. The Indian Reorganization Act (Barnes, Bowles, 2014) was an act to conserve and develop Indian lands and resources; to extend to Indians the right to form business and other organizations; to establish a credit system for Indians; to grant certain rights of home rule to Indians; to provide for vocational education for Indians; and for other
The turn of the century in 1900’s, most remaining Native Americans had been forced, to leave their ancestral lands; it was truly a time of cultural assimilation (Assimilation through Education). Some chose to live on the reservations that were created by the U.S. government starting in the 1890s, while others spent their lives hiding from whites whom they feared would kill or capture them. Native Americans world as they new it naturally died out, from progression (Assimilation through Education), they needed to become a part of white society. There Indian language, religion, and art, would become something from the past to be studied or viewed in a museum, but would not be the products of living cultures. "Civilized" white society was seen as the natural end result for all humanity.
The goal of bringing Native Americans into "civilized" white society backfired as white-educated Native Americans and those increasingly familiar with white society, laws, and government started organizing and fighting alongside whites for Native American rights to land, religion, and education in the early 1900’s(Barnes, Bowles, 2014). This struggle for Native …show more content…
They were a group that suffered racial discrimination, economic disadvantages, exclusion, and misery. As one of the more disadvantaged groups in American Society, Native Americans looked to the New Deal for help and guidance. However, it was until 1933 that federal Indian policies were designed to integrate Native Americans. The Indian Reorganization Act (Barnes, Bowles, 2014) was an act to conserve and develop Indian lands and resources; to extend to Indians the right to form business and other organizations; to establish a credit system for Indians; to grant certain rights of home rule to Indians; to provide for vocational education for Indians; and for other