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Instructor Louise Bown

English 2010
Nov. 18 2015.
UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION AND HOPE

The Civil Rights of Native Americans have been a theme of interest to some
people in America History. Native Americans are still in an uncertain position in the
Native American and European cultures. When the Europeans arrived to the New
Continent they called America, they found that the new lands were occupied by people
that Europeans named Indians. The estimated Indians population in the new lands
was of 10 to 16 million people (Faville).
After several
disagreements
between both cultures
the relationship turned
in wars and fights for
land and resources of the new territory and consequently loss of the understanding and
communication for the reason that Native Americans wanted to preserve their families,
home and traditions.
The loss not only were belongings of the new territory thousands of dead were
between both cultures but Native American was the majority affected with that loss
because they were infected by new diseases and finally the victory came to be to
European.
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In early 1787, the new U.S. government initiated a series treaties to the failed
Native American, promises such as some benefit as the possibility to be citizen of the
U.S if they were able to exchange their lands and the acceptance of strange European
rules. The benefits were limited and rarely tangible and instead the Native Americas
were deported from their ancestral lands onto chosen reservations that were often
inhospitable lands.
Multiple sequences of trials and sadness were burden on Native American during
their deportation from their inherit lands to the selected, reservation. For example, In
1838 the Cherokee Nations was forcibly relocated from Georgia to Oklahoma. During
the journey, 4000
Cherokees died on
what came to be
called The Trail of
Tears (Faville).
The famous Native
American Novelist
James Welch in
his book Fools Crow, wrote, The outcomes of the Indian wars was never in doubt. It is
a tribute to the Indians spirit that they resisted as long as they did. Custers Last Stand
has gone down in history as example of what savagery the Indians were capable of: the
Marias is a better example of what man is capable of doing to man (killing Custer, 47).
With loss and hopelessness many indigenous Americans were confined to live
without the regulation of the status as people who belong to the new U.S. Many years
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later in the 1960s, African Americans, initiated the civil rights movement. The Native
Americans also struggled for more civil rights and forced the U.S to keep its promises
to Native American (Faville).
Moreover, The Commission on Civil Rights in July 2003, complained that the
American Indians are the nations true citizens with limited rights to use health care,
education and economic opportunities. A bipartisan group set up by congress, decried
what is calls a quiet crisis for American Indians.
The struggles for the Native Americans have been many.

But they are still

waiting for justice from European culture by the possibility of hope. Hope, for a new
structure that brings understanding and communication between both cultures, for the
welfare of all Native American generations for civil rights in the New Century.

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