Native Americans

Examples of Native Americans in the following topics:

• Civil Rights of Native Americans

  • Historical policies of American expansion have infringed upon the rights of Native Americans and have lead to long-term inequality.
  • Native Americans are people of indigenous American descent, including indigenous peoples within the boundaries of the present-day United States.
  • According to US Census data, 1.37% of Americans identify themselves as Native American.
  • As settlers moved west, new conflicts with Native American populations ensued.
  • Identify the modern civil rights issues that pertain to Native Americans in the United States

• Settlers and Native Americans

  • Settlers' relations with Native Americans were difficult and fueled by conflicts over land.
  • Most Native Americans who joined the struggle sided with the British, based both on their trading relationships and their hopes that colonial defeat would result in a halt to further colonial expansion onto Native American land.
  • The British made peace with the Americans in the Treaty of Paris (1783) , through which they ceded vast Native American territories to the United States without informing or consulting with the Native Americans.
  • Native American tribes led the Northwest Indian War in an attempt to repulse American settlers.
  • Describe the role of the Native American tribes in the Revolutionary War

• The Year of Blood

  • "The Year of Blood" refers to the carnage that took place in 1782, between militia-supported settlers and Native Americans allied with the British.
  • In May 1782, Colonel William Crawford led a campaign to destroy enemy Native American settlements along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country with the hope of ending Native American attacks on American settlers.
  • Crawford led 500 volunteer militiamen deep into Native American territory and engaged with Native Americans and their British allies from Detroit.
  • The Native Americans executed these captives in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.
  • This execution was widely publicized in the United States, worsening the already-strained relationship between Native Americans and European Americans.

• Bacon's Rebellion

  • Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in Virginia in 1676 against the colonial Governor's friendly policies toward Native Americans.
  • In 1674 a group of yeomen farmers on the Virginia frontier demanded that Native Americans living on treaty-protected lands be driven out or killed.
  • In September 1675, a series of violent conflicts between Virginians and Native Americans began.
  • When Berkeley refused to go against the Native Americans, farmers gathered to form a raiding party, of which Nathaniel Bacon was elected leader.
  • Bacon and his men led several more raids against Native Americans and on September 19, 1676, burned Jamestown to the ground .

• Indian Resistance and Survival

  • Indian tribes fought over 40 wars for survival, killing at least 19,000 white settlers and soldiers and at least 30,000 American Indians.
  • As American expansion continued, Native Americans resisted settlers' encroachment in several regions of the new nation (and in unorganized territories), from the Northwest to the Southeast, and then in the West, as settlers encountered the tribes of the Great Plains.
  • Native American nations on the plains in the West continued armed conflicts with the United States throughout the 19th century through what were called generally "Indian Wars. " The Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) was one of the greatest Native American victories.
  • Census Bureau estimated that about 0.8% of the U.S. population was of American Indian or Alaska Native descent.

• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of several treaties signed between Native Americans and the United States after the American Revolution.
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed in October 1784 between the United States and its Native Americans at Fort Stanwix (located in present-day Rome, New York).
  • It was one of several treaties between Native Americans and the United States after the American victory in the Revolutionary War.
  • The treaty served as a peace treaty between the Iroquois and the Americans, since the Natives had been ignored in the Treaty of Paris.
  • Many of the Ohio Country natives, including the Shawnee, the Mingo and Delaware tribes rejected the treaty.

• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

  • Native Americans, who did not immigrate but rather inhabited the land prior to immigration, experienced displacement as a result.
  • Since its early history, Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans were considered as different races in the United States.
  • The brutal confrontation between the European colonists and the Native Americans, which resulted in the decimation of the latter's population, is well known as an historical tragedy.
  • The eradication of Native American culture continued until the 1960s, when Native Americans were able to participate in, and benefit from, the civil rights movement.
  • Native Americans still suffer the effects of centuries of degradation.

• Practice 1: Contingency Tables

  • Of the people smoking at most 10 cigarettes per day, there were 9886 African Americans, 2745 Native Hawaiians, 12,831 Latinos, 8378 Japanese Americans, and 7650 Whites.
  • Of the people smoking 11-20 cigarettes per day, there were 6514 African Americans, 3062 Native Hawaiians, 4932 Latinos, 10,680 Japanese Americans, and 9877 Whites.
  • Of the people smoking 21-30 cigarettes per day, there were 1671 African Americans, 1419 Native Hawaiians, 1406 Latinos, 4715 Japanese Americans, and 6062 Whites.
  • Of the people smoking at least 31 cigarettes per day, there were 759 African Americans, 788 Native Hawaiians, 800 Latinos, 2305 Japanese Americans, and 3970 Whites.
  • In words, explain what it means to pick one person from the study and that person is "Japanese American OR smokes 21-30 cigarettes per day. " Also, find the probability.

• American Indian Policy

  • As settlers moved west, Native American tribes were coerced into signing treaties giving away their land.
  • The lands that natives resided on, Nebraska and Kansas territories, ended up being taken from the natives by the government and given to settlers.
  • This act intended to give natives a sense of land ownership and integrate agricultural lifestyle with the tribes, much like that of the Americans and Europeans.
  • The Bureau of Indian Affairs was used during this time to keep a commanding hold of all aspects of native life, thus upholding the goal of "civilizing" natives.
  • The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society.

• Nativism

  • Nativism was an anti-immigration movement which favored those descended from the inhabitants of the original thirteen colonies.
  • The largest of these movements was nativism, which took its name from the "Native American" parties.
  • In this context, "native" did not mean indigenous or American Indian, but rather those descended from the inhabitants of the original British thirteen colonies.
  • In 1856, Millard Fillmore was the American Party candidate for President and trumpeted anti-immigrant themes.
  • Nativism caused much splintering in the political landscape