Indian Suffrage

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The whites wanted more lands for their
developments, and because of this greed, they created direct policies to clear
the Indians off their lands. For example, one form of direct policy that the
whites used to rob Indians of their lands was by signing treaties. Then later
the whites broke these treaties and forced Indian off their lands by the Removal
policy and claimed the lands as their property (Lowy: Lecture 11/96). There
were many indirect methods that white used to rob Indians' lands. They use
bribery, threats, and among countless other things to trick Indians into giving
up their lands. They were often tricked into signing the land cession treaties
that they did not understand the negotiation and the language (Lowy: Lecture
11/6).
In many ways, the United States policy toward Indian has been
schizophrenic because the laws never completely nor attempted to give Indians an
opportunity to progress and assimilate into American mainstream as an individual.
From time to ...

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(Lowy: Lecture 11/8).
The Indian problem did not stop here. Then in 1950, to the federal
government ignorance of the Indians situation, they implemented the Relocation
policy to persuaded Indians to move to the urban for technology job training and
better living. Once they arrived, they were dumped into ghetto housing, dead
end job, and often training that failed to lead to professions and occupations.
Also, this policy was originated so that the government no longer have to deal
with the Indians and take the responsibility of past wrong. In 1954, Indian
problems worsen when the government orginated the termination policy or
withdrawing all of federal-Indians funding and ...

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