How did the new Americans treat the native Americans?

Answer 1

They treated them horribly they kicked them off their land, put them into reservations, forced them onto land that was not for farming. Made the children go to "boarding" school to teach them to act white, they made them cut their hair, change their names and everything, not even wear the traditional clothing. It was bad.

Answer 2

Most travelers on the Oregon Trail tried to limit contact with the Native Americans because they feared attack and violence on the part of the Indians. When there was violent contact, much of the time the settlers heading west were outnumbered and lost lives and suffered many injuries. Peaceful contact involved perhaps trading food stuffs or an occasional animal with the Natives. Since the settlers were not herding animals to the west, they tried to use work animals that were not desired by the Indians, like Oxen. Once settled, the Americans hoped the Army would protect them from contact with the Indians.

Answer 3

The american civilization back during the westward movement treated most native indians poorly. The American foreign policy throughout the nineteenth century worked to the disadvantage of the Indians.

The Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--whom whites referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes"--occupied sizable tracts of land in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. Portions of these tribes had accepted the teachings of white missionaries and accepted Christianity, white inventions, and even the concept of slavery. The Cherokee chief Sequoyah devised a written form of the Cherokee language and the tribe published a newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix. While a significant number of Indians ceded their lands to the US government, many resisted removal. Many of the "civilized" Indians resisted knowing that they depended on interactions with whites for survival. Others, who had clung to their ancient customs, were reluctant to abandon their ancestral lands. Many of the latter were full- blooded Indians, as opposed to the many mixed bloods produced from years of intermixing with whites. Full bloods were often resentful of mixed bloods, who were more likely to give in to the wishes of the US government.

When Andrew Jackson became president in 1829, he quickly instituted a coercive removal policy. In 1830, the Indian Removal Act granted Jackson funds and authority to remove the Indians by force if necessary. The Georgia legislature passed a resolution stating that after 1830, Indians could not be parties to or witnesses in court cases involving whites. Treaties signed in 1830 and 1832 had begun the removal of the Chickasaws from Alabama and the Choctaws from Alabama. In 1836, the Georgia militia attacked Creeks residing in the state. In that year, 15,000 Creeks were removed and forced west of the Mississippi. Between 1835 and 1840, the federal government spent 420 million on a war to eject the Seminoles from Florida.

Answer 4

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. 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 Union army would go into a sleeping village early in the morning and kill men, women, and children. The 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.

Answer 5

Close to 90% Native Americans died because of diseases they had never seen before. They were thrown off land they thought was theirs not some colonial's.

Since this was considered all "new" land, what every European country which got there first thought it was all theirs.