Assimilation Of Native Americans Essay

In my opinion, the relation between Europeans and the Amerindians were terrible in the last 50 years. It has been terrible since the start because, the white men wanted to conquered the Amerindians in a form of mass assimilation. One of the forms of a mass assimilation is to put the Indians on the reservation and be able to control them. There are 64 reservation in the States, also the (BIE) or Bureau of Indian Education are responsible for the school educations for native students. The (AIM /ARM) there are the bullies of the police force who suppresses the native culture. The cultural assimilation of native Amerindian was to assimilate the natives and transform them into Europeans-American culture basically trying to take away their identity, and also wanted to control all of their lands and that was called the Amerindian land rights. The Indian Act set out the degree of control and authority. It was control over the Indian reservation, the US government still has ownership.

The (BIE) or the Bureau of Indian Education are responsible the natives that need like education. While 565 natives american tribes were recognized by the U.S. government enjoy sovereign status. (BIE) schools are
The American Indian Movement started on July 1968 in minneapolis. (AIM) was initially formed to address American Indian sovereignty, treaty issues, spirituality, and leadership, while simultaneously addressing incidents of police harassment and racism against Native Americans. As independent citizens and taxpayers, without good education or experience, most 'terminated' Indians were reduced within a few years to widespread illness and utter poverty, whether or not they were relocated to cities. We say formal history, because the movement existed for 500 years without a name. While the European American were trying to assimilate the natives there were a lot of problems because weren't