What is the largest most prominent issue regarding US/Native American Indian relations in US and future of these relations?

What is the largest most prominent issue regarding US /Native American Indian relations in US and future of these relations

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7 April 2009

US and Native American Indian relations : Background

Native American ' or American Indian , are terminologies that are used interchangeably to refer to the indigenous people who first inhabited the continent of North America . Long before the Whites settled in North America , the native Indian tribes occupied it and had their own aboriginal culture and way of life which was radically different

from the white settler way of life and which would later set the stage for conflict between the two groups . According to the folklore of the native Indians , they have always inhabited North America . The most popular theory is that they traveled through the Bering Strait at a time when the Ocean had frozen over thereby providing a bridge for them between present day Siberia and Alaska which they used to cross over . This may have happened more than 40 , 000 years ago and as the millennia went by the native Indians adopted new technologies and cultures to suit the prevailing conditions . The different Indian groups formed different cultural practices and beliefs that to date signify the cultural diversity of the aboriginal people (Pritzker , xi .Today , there are around 560 Native American tribes that are recognized by the federal government , distinguished by their economic as well as cultural systems (Norgen and Nanda , 3

The advent of the European White Settlers into...