assignment 1
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Assignment 1 Indian Societies Under Seige
• To reduce violence, make way for “progress”, and help civilize the Indian's, the federal government confined Indian's to small reservations in remote areas
• Railroads headed the invasion of farmers, miners, and merchants are what pressured governments to dispossess Indians
• On American reservations and Canadian Reserves, Missionaries and Educators attempted to wean natives off tribal practices
• Governments also experiment with programs that offered land to Indian families in exchange for adopting citizenship and renouncing tribal rights.
Canada VS U.S. Differences
• US experienced more violent collision of people • Americas rapid expansion to pacific was supported by national
policies committed to moving Indian's to the side
• The Nations pursued also two ethnic policies • Americans made no space for mixed peoples, treating them as
who they lived with: Indians, Mexicans, and Whites. • Canada, for example, saw a group like the French Indian Métis
as their own distinct people and accorded them their own separate rights
• The Difference? Due to American's earlier constant struggle with Black & White Dichotomy, they were almost taught to discourage mix-race classifying
Similarities
• Both nations used education (boarding schools) to wean children and young people from their cultures
• Churches and Missionaries were highly involved, and churches in Canada operated many Indian schools
• Neither government would accept communal land use patterns, or protect enough land for tribal people to name possibility for success of livestock