... . Through American education, religious conversion, and forced assimilation into our culture and capitalist economy, the culture of these people was destroyed. The arrival of Europeans to the Americas in the seventeenth century marked a major change in the natives' society and culture. American Indians were instantaneously misunderstood by Westerners because they were different. This idea of, "otherness," led to centuries ... life, liberty, and the pursuit of property, or happiness, the United States was unjustified in their cruel treatment of American Indian people. The European coloniz...

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