1st blog post

The lack of attention and the Native Americans received caused them to constantly face challenges in American society. The unfair treatment thoughtout American history suggests that consideration was not given towards Native Americans when the United States was developing. This lack of consideration carried on and still exists today. A contribution to this, would be how invasive outsiders effected Native Americans and ultimately took advantage of them. Seen in early settlers by their sometimes unfair trading with Native Americans. Black Hawk was an example of an uprising against outsiders because of he fought against them. His courage made him different from other Native Americans who did not want any contact with outsiders at all. It seems like few people made attempts to help and support Native Americans causing them to turn into the forgotten natives of America. One person who did was John Collier. His work to help create treaties to protect Native Americans. The effect of these treaties decreased poverty and improved birth rates and health. To fight poverty, many Native Americans sold their land to companies, and always ended up with an unfair deal. It is unfortunate to see society treat them so disrespectfully because Native Americans have not done anything to deserve such discourtesy because they were the first people to inhabit America. Subtopics we were able to take from this was Political power, Social Equality, Treaties and territories, conflicts and interrelations and cultural contribution.