Native Americans

My thoughts on the treatment of Native Americans are that Americans have always discriminated against anyone that looked different than their self. One thing in particular that always bugged me was when i learned about how the founding fathers of the United States would kill Native women and children during multiple raids on native villages. Just like John Wayne in his cowboy films George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had a history of brutally killing native people in cold blood. the mistreatment of Native Americans still continues today, on reservations in the Dakotas there holds the United States largest deposits of Coal and the Government has been trying to take that land from natives for a very long time by taking the reservations to court and trying to hold claim over the land denying centuries old contracts that gave natives ownership of the land by native peoples. In other such instances the Government has even taken other tactics to try and remove people since in the United States law says that they need to pay taxes on each head of cattle they own. The cattle are the people’s way of life and source of income so by taking cattle they could force Natives to sell their land to the government in order to survive. The movies are just another way to bring more people to the side against the natives.