Mr. Wisialowski
Native Americans and their Great Change From the 1400s to 1877 many historical events have occurred in the growing of the new world. However, some of those occurrences have affected many different groups including women, African Americans, and Native Americans in a negative manner. From the three groups, I feel that the Native Americans have seen the most changes in their lives, but for the worse. I believe this to be true for many reasons such as; the first encounters between many different European colonists and Native tribes and the damage dealt to their land and homes, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 which gave up land for the Native Americans, and also the Indian removal act in 1830, which once again took land away from the Native Americans. Some first encounters between the native and the European were difficult to because their ways were so different, from the language they spoke, the food they ate, and even the clothes they wore. Some Europeans were so filled with awe at the new lands and different environments that it overcame them and caused them to do unsettling things to the homeland of the Native. For example, the Taino and the Spanish were very civilized toward each other but there …show more content…
After all that the Native Americans had to go through with the Treaty of Paris (1783), just fifty years later they are once again forced to move from their land. Although, under the act, the natives would be compensated with new lands that have been drawn from the public domain that is west of the Mississippi River, the Native Americans were still not being treated well. The land chosen had different climates and terrain that was different from the land they previously lived on. This act paved the way for the migration of tens of thousands of Native Americans, also known as the trail of