Treaties Between Native Americans And The U.S. Government
...dropped critically. There used to be over 300,000 Native Americans in California. The Hispanics forced the Native Americans into slave labour and in no time, European diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and typhus which the Spanish and French settlers brought from Europe to America broke out and killed over 100,000 Native Americans in California alone. The first treaties guaranteed reservations and in some cases even economic aid for the Native Americans. For example, the first ever treaty with Native Americans, was the "Treaty with the Delawares" on the 28th September 1778, which not only asked the Delawares to forgive the past disagreements, but also asked for peace between the U.S. and Natives and the allowance for American troops to pass through their land. In Article 6 of the "Treaty with the Delawares", the Americans in turn guaranteed to respect the territorial rights to the fullest as long as the Delawares stay friendly towards the Americans. This treaty did not totally free the Native Americans from the U.S., they still had to ask for permission if the tribes wanted to invite other tribes, and such cases were only granted, if it was also in the interest of the United States. In the "Treaty of Greenville", in 1795, the U.S. government forced twelve tribes, among them the Delawares, Miamis and Wyandots, to sign a peace agreement. When more and more European settlers came to America and settled down especially in lands east of the Mississippi, the U.S. Government decided to reposition the natives living in the east, to the west of the Mississippi. Because of the purchase of vast landscapes, today known as Louisiana, from the French, President Jefferson had enough space to resettle the Native Americans. This procedure was called the "Indian Removal Act" and was carried out by President Andrew Jackson in 1830. Any tribes that refused to leave their...
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