Native American Treatment and Resistance (Westward Expansion)

Native American Treatment and Resistance (Westward Expansion) — page 3
NATIVE AMERICAN TREATMENT AND RESISTANCE environmental review of the route was completed But after Donald Trump took the presidency in 2017 construction was allowed to resume The pipeline fight was only the latest in a long string of conflicts between Native American peoples and those who have sought to control their land or deny their rights There is much to admire about the expansion of the United States from the colonial era to its status as a world power But the displacement and destruction of Native American cultures during this period represented the dark side of progress In the early years of the American colonies Native Americans and the newly arrived settlers some times lived peacefully side by side The harvest feast shared by the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1621 commemorated in the annual Thanksgiving holiday is the most famous example of friendly relations in the colonies Even before that event however disputes between Native Americans and colonists had erupted into conflict elsewhere in New England Warfare would become increasingly common as the colonies and then the United States pushed farther westward Eventually the US gov ernment would make hundreds of treaties that were supposed to guarantee the rights of Indian peoples In the end however these treaties proved to be little more than a long series of broken promises 6