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Racism is a very painful problem in the United States. Most people are racist in one form or another, the most common is by the person’s appearance. One of the first acts of racism in American was against the Native Americans. At first, the Native Americans were the Europeans’ friends. The Native Americans showed the Europeans how to farm, hunt and live off the land in this new America. As time went by and the Europeans became comfortable, they no longer need the Native American people.
The Native American people were in the way, they had land that the growing population of the Europeans wanted and needed. This was the start of many treaties that the American Government would make the Native people, and the start for racism against them. Out of all the treaties that the American Government made with the Native People, they kept all of them, but the United States only kept half of the treaties.
Should Americans and the Government be racists against the Native Americans?
Being racist is because the other looks or acts different than we do. Ward Churchill points out in the “Crimes against Humanity” we just think of the word “Indian” as slan
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people who are racist against one culture or another, but most people do not even think about the Native Americans. The Native Americans have given us names for our states, language for our codes in World War II, just to mention a few. They have been persecuted, exterminated, scalped, and mistreated, just because we wanted their land. The Native Americans have done more suffering for us and by us than any other minority, but yet we still do not notice. The United States of American is the land of the free, but do you think that the Native American see it that way. The Native Americans are getting stronger and trying to get their voices heard, by protesting and going to court to set things straight. They keep to themselves, because they do not want our pity, the Native Americans are and have always been a proud people. Yet the Native Americans were forgotten again.
Even the United States Government has seen some of the error of its way. For they have made it through hundreds of years of unbearable cruelty from the citizens and the government of the United States. We always hear how the African Americans were treated in the past and in the future, but no one ever hears about how the Native Americans were treated, or being.
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We owe the Native Americans more than our gratitude for all of what they gave to us and helped us to do and everything that we have put them through.
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