icans has been occurring since the Europeans first arrived in North America. These early Americans expanded and began taking Native American land. One such case of this land taking occurred when Nathaniel Bacon picked a fight with the Susquehannock people. He led a rebellion to take the Native Americans' land and actually burned Jamestown when Governor William Berkeley objected. The year after Bacon died, the Susquehannock were forced to sign a treaty which gave away much of their land to white settlers.
After the United States had become its own sovereign nation, it continued to take the American Indians' land. In New York, the once mighty Iroquois were limited to reservations near
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