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