Native Americans

Throughout American history, Native Americans were some of the most well-known tragic groups of people . In fact, the things that I learned about Native Americans are the Columbian Exchange and the spread of diseases from the "old world" that killed most of them. After reading this chapter, I realized that Americans were mean, callous, and subjective. Americans thought that the Native American's tradition was meaningless and tried to re-educate and assimilate them as Americans desired. In my opinion, the main reason should be attributed to American"s individualism and egocentrism. For example, they imposed their American values onto the Native Americans, giving them the best education to get jobs. According to the chapter, one of the social historians advocated that American history should only encompass immigrant groups and exclude Native American history. I totally disagreed with it. Native Americans should be an important part of American History because they were indigenous. America was originally the Native American's homeland and they had their own lifestyle before Europeans came. After Europeans came, they took over the Native American's land. Moreover, they tried to dominate them to alter all of their traditions, culture and institution. From my point of view, the Europeans were the foreigners who were compelled to stay in the Native American's homes and destroy their culture. Why were Americans too harsh to Native American? Why didn't they use a kinder method to assimilate Native American into their Society?