The Federal government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out what to do with them. Tribes were in the way of American expansion and,
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Savage System
Often, I address white American attitudes towards native peoples. How historians have ignored whole sections of our history, racism and genocide against native peoples, the
Lessons from the Indian Internment at Indian Reservations and Boarding Schools
From the 1830’s (Indian Removal Act) to 1900 most of the Tribal Reservations were established in the United States holding a population of over 350,000
Dispelling the Cloud of Black Eternity: the Willamette School at Grand Ronde in 1857
Once the tribes were removed to the reservations, additional work began to civilize them. The Indian Agents and teachers disregarded the tribe’s cultures and previous
Dart’s Instructions of Colonization and Assimilation in 1850
In 1850, the United States passed The Oregon Donation Land-claim Act. This act gave American men 640 acres, one square mile of free land in