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A 3 page overview of a few of the treaties and policies that targeted Native Americans in this time period. The author contends that these treaties and policies were varied yet almost all served to the detriment of the indigenous peoples and to the advantage of the U.S. government and those non-Native peoples that government encompassed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: AM2_PPnaTrt2.rtf
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towards Native Americans between 1830 and 1890 were varied yet almost all served to the detriment of the indigenous peoples and to the advantage of the U.S. government and those
non-Native peoples that government encompassed. Most of these policies revolved around land ownership and political sovereignty. In most cases Native Americans played only a minuscule role in formulating
the policies and treaties that could affect them. The arrival of non-Native peoples to the Americas was to some degree the beginning of
the end for Native Americans. Not only did the Whites introduce disease which killed countless numbers of Native peoples, they introduced concepts and procedures which were just as deadly.
Ideas like land ownership were strictly of European origin, the Native Americans believed that they land belonged to no man, that indeed it was a living entity to be
protected and cherished. White imposed ideas of religion were even more deadly in that they forced the Native Americans from their traditional beliefs into a system in which in
reality they had no faith. Native Americans were in a position of almost full dependency on Europeans in regard to issues such as European law. They were at
an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native groups had no written language. Treaties of course were in a written format
and Native Americans for the most part had to take the word of the whites presenting treaties for their signatures as to exactly what those treaties entailed. Hundreds of
treaties were entered into and with those treaties and the policies surrounding them came many affronts to Native rights and lifeways. To demonstrate
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