Eth 125

I have chosen to write about the Native American, the most of the written historical record about Native Americans came from the Europeans. (by Bruce E. Joansen 2005).

Around the late 1700, the population in the United States was somewhere around 3 million people living mostly along the Atlantic seaboard. Native Americans however controlled most of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. (Indian Affairs—US Department of the Interior, available online at: http://www.doi.gov/bia/).

In the late 18th century, George Washington and Henry Knox came up with an idea to civilizing the Native Americans to prepare them for American citizenship (Eric Miller 1994).

In most states, Native Americans are, segregated today by reservations. This is where we live, work, and go to school. Some people have never leaves the reservations. The belief is this the only way to keep the cultures separated. “Joane Nagel, American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 5”.

In the past the Native American, faced with prejudice because of the lack of education the Native Americans had. They were good hunters and farmers however, their writing and learning skills were undeveloped. However, today the Native Americans have become good business people. With the casinos, smoke shops, gift shops, and the housing, they have built diversified economies.

However not all tribes have built diversified economies there is only 40% of the 562 federally recognized tribes operate casinos this according to (NIGA). The Native Americans people that live on reservation are among the poorest people in the United States.

Native Americans who lived in the western part of the United States have suffered abuses related to uranium mining. In New Mexico, Navajo territory the longest and the most continuous uranium mining done from 1954 until 1968, the tribe had leased land to mining companies, who never obtain consent from Navajo...