Oppression of the Native Americans!

This is a picture of a part of the Bill of Rights of the U.S.

Many movies show us that Native Americans were the ones who always treated the whites badly and did not wanted to share their lands. This "mistreatment" towards the whites caused many problems including battles in which Native Americans always used the scalpping methods. But, guess what? These problems were exagerated in movies and it was totally the opposite because the whites were the ones who treated badly the Native Americans

All of the Native Americans were treated badly by the whites in the 1800's. This mistreatments started when the whites realized that the Native American's lands were valuable with many minerals and fertile soil used to crop, in which they could make money. The whites from the U.S. government invaded Native American's land, killed their people,broke some treaties, and send them to reservations. In the past 200 years, Native Americans have been stripped of their land,rights, and dignity and have become a minority in the U.S. today. Native Americans were once proud to live in a nation like the U.S. but sadly today they have the highest suicide rate and lowest life expectancy.

Racism in the U.S. has been a major issue since the colonial era and slave era. Major racially structure institutions included slaves, Indian wars, Native American reservations,segregation, residential schools for Native Americans and internment camps. According to the Bill of Rights, every person should be treated equal no matter the race and they should have the right to be free and there should not be segregation. But, today Indians are still discriminated since they still live in reservations and some whites even try to be far from them because of their beliefs and ways of living. Why can't they live their lifes just as everyone else, with their beliefs? They are humans just like us! Native Americans still have rights in which they can be educated in any public school and they have a higher probability to be successful in their lifes than in earlier years.

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