For many it was something happening to other people in another place and had little affect on most Americans. As people began to move west they wanted the Native American lands, so the act made it official that the tribes were to be removed.
Those desiring to move westward and wanting good land, were happy that the Indians were being moved out of the way. A minority saw the action for what it was and did what they could to assist, hiding Indians, assisting them with food and shelter and even traveling with them.
From the very moment of the first colony the European settlers did their best to kill, remove, or displace the Native tribes from their lands. The government made treaties they broke and they forcibly removed people to reservations. The Federal army would go into a sleeping village early in the morning and kill men, women, and children. The unofficial government policy was a " good Indian was a dead one" and they would do anything to accomplish this task. Read Black Elk Speaks or Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee for further understanding of the genocide that was committed.
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You are asking the wrong question. It should be how did American policy affect Native Americans.
Thomas Jackson, also known as Stonewall Jackson, is not known to have had a policy toward Native Americans. Andrew Jackson, a generation earlier, and no relation to Stonewall, carried out a policy similar to a Russian progrom to force Native Americans across the Mississippi to a separate territory. This became known as the Trail of Tears.
The Native Americans knew that they were about to be kicked out with Jackson's mindset of putting pioneers and settlers into the Native American land.
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You are asking the wrong question. It should be how did American policy affect Native Americans.
Native American tribes that lived east of the Mississippi River were the people most hurt by Andrew Jacksonâ??s Indian Removal Policy. These people did not know where they could go, how to survive on foreign lands, or who they could trust.
Thomas Jackson, also known as Stonewall Jackson, is not known to have had a policy toward Native Americans. Andrew Jackson, a generation earlier, and no relation to Stonewall, carried out a policy similar to a Russian progrom to force Native Americans across the Mississippi to a separate territory. This became known as the Trail of Tears.
Jefferson's policy toward American Indians was not proactive. His policy was to let the settlers expand and take away more and more of the Native American's area. This would force the Native Americans to turn to farming.
Most Native Americans were practically forced to relocate to reservations.
The American Indian Policy Review Commission of 1975 looked at the history between the Federal Government and the Native Americans, in order to improve future policy, 5 of the 11 commissions were Native Americans themselves. I believe this was a policy put forward by the Federal Government.
The policy brought the native americans into mainstream Self-determination
The Native Americans knew that they were about to be kicked out with Jackson's mindset of putting pioneers and settlers into the Native American land.
The government's policy of assimilation of the Native Americans was a failure because the government wanted to eliminate them. The government wanted the Native Americans to remain powerless.
President Ulysses S. Grant's peace policy toward Native Americans followed the ideas of assimilation and reservation. He sought to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American society by encouraging them to adopt a sedentary, agricultural lifestyle. Additionally, Grant supported the establishment of reservations as a means of isolating and controlling Native American populations.
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