White policy toward the indians

Running Head : WHITES AND INDIANS

Relations and policies against the Indians

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Date The whites policies and relationship with the native Indians was one of scorn and blatant discrimination . The Indians went through a dehumanizing treatment in the hands of the Europeans

The first encounter of the native Indians with the European was in 1492 when Christopher Columbus is said to have discovered America . It is Columbus ' accounts of what America was like and its rich resources that would open a floodgate of explorers

to America . The French , Spaniards and the British all wanted to have their take in the exploration and colonization of America

The French started to mingle with the Indians on the basis of for trade and through missionaries . Right from the days of Columbus , the Indian culture began facing eminent threat of obliteration of the overly domineering European culture . The Indian had a unique and distinct culture structurally different from that of European nations . This was further exacerbated by the dominance of the European powers who were seeking to colonize the Indians . Right from the start , the encounters between the whites and the Indians would turn violent there were inherent hostilities harbored against the two races

The Europeans were putting every possible effort they could muster to annex the Indians valuable possession land . The Indians on the other hand had a mystic and a cultural attachment to it and were not willing to move . The controversies that would ensue however were to the disfavor of the Indians who , although were enjoying the comfort of the homeland could not stand against the superior weaponry applied by the whites Indians were driven further from their original habitats to the territories situated in the North West

The whites were seeking to subjugate a people they regarded to as filled with uncivilized savagery while the Indians were expressing anger , disappointment and hatred for a people they believed were out to suppress their cultural rights to land as well as enslave them . This is what characterized relationship between the whites and the Indians and any policies that were instituted by the British colonialists were to a greater extent shaped by this notion

The Indians underwent periods of harsh and discriminatory treatment both official and unofficial . Apart from the annexation of their lands they were enslaved and were seen as an appropriate cheap source of labor . This slavery of the natives was often met with stiff opposition form some of the whites . The first evidence of anti slavery sentiments being expressed by the whites came from Bartolome de Las Casas who was arguing from a religious point of view , saying it was morally wrong for the native Americans to lead a life of slavery under the whites , this was back in 1515 . Although his concerns were not headed , it is important evidence that not all whites were for the mistreatment of the Indians

The policies set against the Indians by the British were paternalistic in nature the proclamations and...