Essay Archive - Intentional Destruction of Native American Cultures
Intentional Destruction of Native American Cultures
America claims to be accepting of other cultures. We all have
equal liberties; it even says so in our Constitution. Yet in the 1870’s,
the United States of America did the antithesis. The destruction of Native
American Cultures was intentionally and systematically carried out by
greedy opportunists, corrupt government officials and well-meaning, but
ignorant, social reformers.
Greedy opportunists saw the Indian Territories as a way to make a
fortune. Opportunists encouraged the Indians to kill extraordinary amounts
of buffalo. They knew the buffalo su....
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