For several hundred years, Aboriginal peoples have had to deal with a great number of challenges. Challenges that were generally initiated by the arrival of Europeans to what is presently considered North America, and by the growth and development of Canadian religious, economic, political, and social systems. As explained in the article, Troubled Hearts: Indigenous Peoples and the Crown in Canada, "the process of colonization unfolded, a sustained effort was made to impose, at first, French and British and then Canadian institutions on indigenous peoples," (Cassidy, 1994). Over the years, society assumed that Aboriginal peoples would eventually be engrossed into Canadian society and would in time adopt its culture and values. Attempts to impose unknown traditions strengthened into a constant effort to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into non-Aboriginal society. The residential school system was one important issue of the policy of assimilation. Residential schools were established and run by missionaries, and jointly funded by the Canadian government and churches. Aboriginal children were removed from their homes, often forcibly and were trained in European traditions and were prohibited to practise their own cultures or speak their own languages. Of those exposed to this separation of cultural, spiritual, and social traditions and customs encompassed and effected all successive generations of Aboriginal peoples. .
Consistent efforts were made to break down traditional indigenous ways and substitute them with institutions such as, the Indian Act government (Cassidy & Kavanagh, 1998).
Another important factor in assimilation was the reserve system. The reserve system was established by federal and provincial legislation, and saved tracts of land that were held in trust by the Crown. The reserve system assigned First Nations people to reside in specified areas. This system gradually expanded across the country.
where we can get a better idea of the Indian's point of view. ... The only way for any of the Indians to survive was to summit. ... Killing millions of Indians that are out numbered and bound to lose is not a very strong act of heroism. ... The Anglos thought of the Indians as uneducated, savage, and uncivilized. ... also gives us a detailed image of what life was like for the Indians. ...
The Indian problem did not stop here. ... The difference conceptions of land use between white and Indian created so much misunderstanding of Indians. ... In 1887, the Dawes Allotment Act was passed to enable Indians to become self-supporting farmer, to assimilate, and to teach Indians the white man's ways , by owning, exploiting, and profiting from the lands. However, the Act had worked badly for the Indian. ... Allotment Act was to bring a rapid conclusion to the Indian problem, but it did not. ...
But some settlers saw the Indians as a threat. ... The Indians were chased and were pushed into a river. ... The Indians started to get tired and some drowned. ... Jackson, in 1830, pushed the legislation towards the "Indian Removal Act." This act gave the president power to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. ...
The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia, to protect themselves from removal, made up a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were sovereign and not subject to the laws of Georgia. ... Andrew Jackson's decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River was a reformulation because it continued Washington's, Monroe's, and Jefferson's administration to acquire Indian land. ... According to Document A, the map shows the relationship between time and policies that effected the Indians. ... (Doc.O) In 1906 Jackson gave the Cherokee Indi...
The excuse of Manifest Destiny was used when the Indians were being removed from the Mississippi River area. ... This was a place made by the white Americans, west of the Mississippi River for the Indians to live. ... Around 1863, the Ute Indian tribe got a taste of this Manifest Destiny first hand. ... The whites sometimes did not even use any excuses, but just used brute force to move the Indians out. ... The Americans considered what the Indians did an act of war, but the next few years were ones of peace. ...
He was placed in the care of his friend, Indian Agent, Jesse M. ... Indian Removal Act of 1830 On May 26, 1830, the Indian Removal Act was passed by the Twenty-First Congress of the United States of America. ... The Cherokee Indian tribes of Georgia were the first to feel the effects of the Act. ... This would keep contact between Indians and colonists rare. ... Within 10 years of the Indian Removal Act, more than 70,000 Indians had moved across the Mississippi in what would become known as the "Trai...
Wallace focuses on the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears, the Indians of the Southeast took to what is now present day Oklahoma. ... When he became president of the United States, he had to make a decision on the Indian removal act. Andrew Jackson and the government were both divided over the whole question of an Indian Removable Act. ... Jackson enacted the Indian Removal Act in 1803 and signed it into the law which required all Indian tribes to leave and head west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory, reservations in what is now present day Oklahoma. ... The Long, B...
According to Baxter, when the bodies of Indians were designated as sinful and dirty it became a sin just to be Indian, which quickly became the stereotype to colonizers. ... The London directors instructed the settlers to, "deal," with the Indians by any means necessary, which started the notion that, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," (Morgan 118). ... When the Indians attempted to fight back and rid themselves of the English occupier, it gave settlers a reason to go after the Indians. ... Thus, the Indians were cleared from the Jamestown area. ... The Trail of Tears...
His Indian name was Goyahkla [One Who Yawns] and his early years were spent as a typical youth of the Apache tribe. ... Many bought anything that belonged to the infamous Indian warrior, from a bow to a feather in his hat. ... They marveled at his peculiar reactions to a puppet show, or to a music act, or to Ferris wheel ride. People wanted him to act fierce or to threaten them but that was not Geronimo's style. ... To their surprise, a full-blown "Indian scare" was in progress. ...
