What Is Pocahontas Affect The Mistreatment Of Native Americans?

Long before people began to move to America from Europe, Native Americans had been roaming the land for years. They have followed their ancestors across the United States traveling and finding land to call their own. “At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States” (A&E Networks). This huge decline in Native Americans was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Indian Removal Act led to many great events in American history such as “The Trail of Tears,” the creation of the state of Oklahoma, and it determined America’s relationship with the Native Americans. …show more content…
Very soon after the colony had moved in and began to settle, they had encountering with Native Americans, but none of them were bad. As a matter of fact, John Rolfe, husband to Pocahontas, helped the colony begin growing tobacco as a profit making business. Pocahontas helped cure many diseases such as malaria throughout the colony. This gave the natives a very great image to the new people. Soon after the settlers came many more from Europe followed. Every new American was very land hungry though, and this soon became a problem with the Native Americans. Wars began to break out between natives and settlers, which led to many Native American deaths since their weapons were not as strong as ours. This caused many Native Americans to finally move further west and give up the land to the Europeans because they were frightened and had no other