1. The United States realizes that mistakes have been made over the years.
1.1. Various legislative acts have been made to justify the horrible wrongs done to the Native Americans.
2. View of Native Americans from colonists?
2.1. Savages
2.1.1. blood thirsty
2.1.2. warriors
2.1.3. Animals
2.2. unintelligent
2.3. in human
2.4. un-holy
2.5. "Less than" Settlers
2.5.1. The Native Americans were viewed as immoral.
3. View of Native Americans Today?
4. Culture
4.1. http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures
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6. http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures/videos/the-first-americans
7. Women in Native American Society
7.1. Matriarchy
7.1.1. Defined: the mother, or oldest woman in the house is the head of the house hold
7.1.2. Women owned the land of families, the men did not own land. (In most Societies)
7.1.3. Native American women are in control of divorce
7.1.3.1. to divorce, all a Native American woman had to do was remove her husbands things from her home, put them outside and they were divorced.
7.1.4. Women have say/control in politics, as opposed to women in colonial society.
8. Christianizing the Native American
8.1. attempted to push Christianity on the Native Americans by stripping them of their culture.
8.1.1. Stripped of their traditions
8.1.2. Indian Schools
8.1.2.1. Native American Children were sent to boarding schools where they were stripped of their indian heritage, and taught how to exist in white culture.
8.1.2.1.1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRHqWCz3Zw
8.1.2.2. first thing that happened to the indian boys when they arrived at the Indian school was getting their hair cut off.
8.1.2.2.1. hair was a symbol of peer and strength to the Native Americans
8.1.3. Patriarchy
8.1.3.1. men were now in charge, of everything. Women were viewed as property
8.1.4. selling their land to colonists
8.1.4.1. push the Indians farther and farther west
8.1.4.2. eliminating the buffalo (Native Americans food source)
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