Experience with racism
by aaron wright
Native Americans, have lived on the North American continent for at least around 20,000 years and have had
an enormous impact on the American history and a long history of racial relations.
During the colonial and independent periods, a long series of conflicts and wars were waged to try and get the
resources of Native Americans. Through wars, massacres, forced displacement an example of this was the Trail of Tears), and the imposition of treaties, land was taken and numerous hardships imposed.
In 1540, was the first racial strife for the native americans and it was with the Spaniard Hernando de Soto's expedition who enslaved and murdered in many New World communities not just the native americans. Also In the early 18th century, the English had enslaved around 800 Choctaws.
After the creation of the United States, the idea of Indian removal gained momentum. However, some Native Americans chose or were allowed to remain and avoided removal whereafter they were subjected to racist institutions in their ancestral homeland. The choctaws in Mississippi described their situation in 1849,
"we have had our habitations torn down and burned, our fences destroyed, cattle turned into our fields and we ourselves have been scourged, manacled, fettered and otherwise personally abused, until by such treatment some of our best men have died."
Military and civil resistance by Native Americans has been a constant feature of American history. So too have a variety of debates around issues of sovereignty, the upholding of treaty provisions, and the civil rights of Native Americans under U.S. law.
All this racism throughout time has had a big effect on the native Americans health. As the following facts show:
an enormous impact on the American history and a long history of racial relations.
During the colonial and independent periods, a long series of conflicts and wars were waged to try and get the
resources of Native Americans. Through wars, massacres, forced displacement an example of this was the Trail of Tears), and the imposition of treaties, land was taken and numerous hardships imposed.
In 1540, was the first racial strife for the native americans and it was with the Spaniard Hernando de Soto's expedition who enslaved and murdered in many New World communities not just the native americans. Also In the early 18th century, the English had enslaved around 800 Choctaws.
After the creation of the United States, the idea of Indian removal gained momentum. However, some Native Americans chose or were allowed to remain and avoided removal whereafter they were subjected to racist institutions in their ancestral homeland. The choctaws in Mississippi described their situation in 1849,
"we have had our habitations torn down and burned, our fences destroyed, cattle turned into our fields and we ourselves have been scourged, manacled, fettered and otherwise personally abused, until by such treatment some of our best men have died."
Military and civil resistance by Native Americans has been a constant feature of American history. So too have a variety of debates around issues of sovereignty, the upholding of treaty provisions, and the civil rights of Native Americans under U.S. law.
All this racism throughout time has had a big effect on the native Americans health. As the following facts show: