Indian Removal Research Paper

In the past, American Indians were treated poorly by the white people they came in contact with. Not only did the whites discriminate against the Indians, they took their land, children, and made false interpretations about the way they lived. The whites had no idea about the indians ways of life and should not have been mocking them. All of these instances and many more made the Indians feel belittled and irrelevant in the eyes of other people. In eighteen thirty President Andrew Jackson along with the rest of the United States government designed the Indian Removal Act that would remove the indians from their lands. While this treaty did not force the indians to move off their land, it allowed the president to negotiate with the indians and make them relocate. In September of eighteen thirty the first Native American tribe to voluntarily sign the removal treaty was the Choctaws. Although the government kept there promise of relocating the indians to a different section of land, they often abused their right. When relocating, the government would choose lands that were not suitable for the indians needs like hunting, fishing and growing crops. The government knew what they were doing and they succeeded in their plan. When the indians could not grow their crops or hunt for their food
By setting up reenactments they would put on dark body paint, and what they thought would be a normal indian outfit. People of real indian decent were upset at this interpretation of their lives because it was all very wrong. As people went to visit these sites they would get an overview of what they are supposed to think Indian life was really about. Instead they are getting a cover up so the whites did not look like the bad guys and it made indian life look something like a fairytale. Again the government wins and the indians