Native American Rights in the United States...What is their History?

This is a map that shows the routes in which Native Americans immigrated to the U.S. according to genetic evidence. (http://www.google.com.pr/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi)

"All men are created equal", that is what the U.S. Constitution says, but we clearly know that there are still people who are treated unfairly. There are many groups that even though they have rights that are written down in the amendments, they are treated different. One of these groups are the Native Americans, who are treated badly during a period of time by the whites but are still discriminated.

The Native Americans were the first ones to conquer and live in the lands of the United States, even before the European settlers came and discover these lands. Native Americans were and are still scattered all around the U.S. and they are related in culture and genetics. Based on the anthropological and genetic evidence, scientists agreed that most Native Americansdescended from people who migrated from Siberia across the Bering Strait between 12,000 years ago, trying to escape from the ice covers of the last ice age. Native Americans,since then, have adopted the way of living in the U.S. and considered it as their homeland. Many problems such as military defeat,cultural pressure, and confinement on reservations, forced cultural assimilation, outlawing of native languages and culture,and slavery between the 1950's and 1960's had bad effects on Native American's mental and physical health. Since the 1960's Indians were no longer safe in their lands and were dying because of battles they had with the whites.

In the 2010 Census of the U.S., there were 2.5 million Native Americans reported, which represented 0.9% of the population (http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/). Native Americans were strong but the whites started to take their lands and they bacame weak and their population decreased alot. A few Native Americans became succesful in their lifes with works such as the whites but others refused to have the life of the whites. Today, Native Americans live in resaervations all around the U.S. and still follow their beliefs and customs but I think that they do not have enough rights and they are still not treated equally as they should be, since they were the first ones to live in the U.S.