The Animator

A 1911 ad offering At the start of the twentieth century there were approximately 250,000 Native Americans in the USA – just 0.3 per cent of the population – most living on reservations where they exercised a limited degree of self-government. During the course of the nineteenth century they had been deprived of much of their land by forced removal westwards, by a succession of treaties (which were often not honoured by the white authorities) and by military defeat by the USA as it expanded its control over the American West.

In 1831 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall, had attempted to define their status. He declared that Indian tribes were ‘domestic dependent nations’ whose ‘relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian’. Marshall was, in effect, recognising that America’s Indians are unique in that, unlike any other minority, they are both separate nations and part of the United States. This helps to explain why relations between the federal government and the Native Americans have been so troubled. A guardian prepares his ward for adult independence, and so Marshall’s judgement implies that US policy should aim to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US culture. But a guardian also protects and nurtures a ward until adulthood is achieved, and therefore Marshall also suggests that the federal government has a special obligation to care for its Native American population. As a result, federal policy towards Native Americans has lurched back and forth, sometimes aiming for assimilation and, at other times, recognising its responsibility for assisting Indian development.

This couldn’t be harder than writing the entire history of world war 2

That was a pain for me to do but I did it

But why did you do this again @Toby_Hoodie_Masky

Oh wait for a school assignment ok

@beanz oof-

@meehankmeee that was only half of the article thingy- but H O W

@beanz yep. school.

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can i have the other half?-

@meehankmeee yeah sure

:D

So basically people were fighting over Native American land for a long time

Sounds like something my 5th grade ELA teacher gave me after I finished everything for the week

My ELA teacher is where the history of WWII came from

I got about 200 points added on to my overall grade so it was worth it

Ok good luck on ur homework my sister is freaking mad at me cuz I’m not watching the same dumb show she is so bai

? it's about how Indian lands started to go really low and native Americans had most of it so they couldn't have much so they started organisations and tried to help them let them to vote and try get them new land but they started to fail and a new one arrived which was a bit better and got more votes i believe then the war started

excuse me for tryna read the entire thing in like 30 seconds

Ok I rlly got to go bye

@meehankmeee yeah i know TwT but i only need to answer the questions which are in a different thread along with the other half

@beanz okay- baii