This statement is correct. As soon as Columbus discovered the New World, the natives' neighborhoods instantly disappeared. Why? Although they said whey came in peace, and intended to explore, they settled down in the land. England actually started the colony here. They obviously did not move in with the natives. They just simply booted them out of their land. Some of the land was bought. They rest was rather "booting" the natives off. They even gathered them into lands designated for the natives. The lands were way different than the plains, the mountains, the forests where they used to live. Even so, the government actually cut off little by little off of the reservations the natives already moved to.
How, we say, why would the natives just welcome them? How is there such peace as Thanksgiving? What happened to the Iroquois Pact? The answer is the same. They simply got booted off the land after the settlers moved in and need the space for them to live in. They slowly push them across the west. They also took away Indian resources. They hunted bison. With guns, their efficiency was deadly. They wiped out all the bison, so much that the natives were forced to change their way of life due to lack of their food resources. All around America, the Native Americans were forced to move. Even when they put up a fight, the U.S. just pushed them aside so they could mine the land for gold. No matter who and what it is, arrivals cause the neighborhood to face change.
You make a good point about the natives being pushed away little by little, but I think you mistake the Indians' hospitality. The reason for Thanksgiving is a tale in which the pilgrims were starving and dying because they hadn't packed enough food and were too weak to fight. The Indians taught them to farm and hunt so they could survive, and the first dinner after the Settlers' new harvest the Indians came and made offerings. That's my understanding, but being a tale who knows how true it really is. Though your point of view is very common among people who take less kindly to strangers.
ReplyDeleteYou have some misspelled words, but I like how got straight to the point. One thing that you have mistaken is that the U.S. didn't just move the Indians for the gold rush but also fro the good resources that the land had that the government wanted and make god money off of their citizens.
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