Indians strived for economic stability after their land was intruded on and basically taken away from them

“Indeed the Declaration of Independence did state that all men were created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” (www.rain.org/~karpeles/billrightsdisc

Indians were denied their right to have their own religious beliefs and Indians were forced to attend schools where Christianity was forced onto them. As many whites would want a choice of religion, this choice was taken away from the Indians due to the impact of white civilization on their society (Vecsey). In schools that Indian children attended, they were taught that Christianity was the only way to believe. In Ceremony, Christianity is compared to liquor. They felt that Christianity poisoned (Silko, 150). It was taught in the reservation schools that that the white world was better than their own, and this made the children ashamed of their own culture. Just as you saw in Germany with the millions of exterminated Jews, repression was taught in public schools to be acceptable behavior (http://members.tripod.com/terz_forum/indians1.htm). It was not difficult to instill these beliefs in people because they started teaching the Indians when they were children.

. Indians make up a tiny minority of the United States population and live mostly in poverty and isolation. For this reason, many Indians moved away from their tribes to get away from poverty. The initial purpose of the reservation system was to set Indians apart from whites; however, reservations soon became encircled by whites during the westward expansion. In addition, with laws such as the Indian Removal Act, Indians were forced off land where they had always lived and forced onto land that did not fit their needs. “Their land-once fertile and clean-is now defaced by circles of charcoal, tire tracks and, since the men had come bac

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