The Extermination Of the Indians

  In Dakota, in the 1800's, the whites were entering in dilemmas with the Indians. The whites thought they had the right to change the Indians' ways and take the land. This would end up in a great loss of people but a greater loss on an Indian culture.

  The Indians were a unique group,with a wide variety of prestigious tribes but, the whites thought different about them. The whites believed the Indians were savages and uncivilized. The truth was that they had well built tribes in great locations, were they could hunt and they lived in the best environments for them. The whites stereotyped them as violent savages that scalped anyone. This is why the whites wanted to assimilate the Indians.

  The whites were now fighting for the land of the Indians. Whites beat the Indians in battle, and they were now forcing them to leave. The Indians had two choices; move up north to Canada and start all over again or move to the reservation camps the whites made for them. The Indians that moved to the reservation camps made deals with the whites for their land. The ugly truth was that the Indians were being assimilated in the reservation camps and time by time their ways were being lost.

  Now that they lived in the reservation camps the whites made for them, they lived under their rules. The Indians had to change their appearance like their hair and clothe. Not only did they had to change their appearance, they had to take normal white names. They were treated like the animals the whites thought they were, like how they played with them making them hunt their food hen really it as literally giving to them. It was just depressing to see how they made them change. it wasn't just depressing to see but to live through it like they did.

  This is how little by little the Indians ways ,and the Indians themselves, were being exterminated. By assimilating a group of people that just because they were different, they were thought of them being savages and uncivilized. The sad thing about all of this was that the Indians really didn't have a choice.