Western Experience: Native American Displaced to Oklahoma
The rumors were true, and I feel like a fool that I had not believed them when I first heard them. They had been talking for years about the possibility that the government would come and take our land, but, like many others, I felt that would not occur if we cultivated the land the same way as the white men. The main objection to our people being in the East had been that were barbaric and uncivilized, so that living like white people would spare us from being treated as subhuman. My family and I settled down to farm our land and we were very successful at it, which made us think that there would be no further efforts to rob us from our land. We had heard so many arguments that the government would want to take land from us because they felt we were using it inefficiently, and, therefore, believed that using it in the same way that the white men use it would keep us from losing our land.
I should have known that it was coming. The history of the white man's involvement in our world has been one of constant strife and barbarity. They have repeatedly taken our land and have not had any problems with killing us to do so. However, this did seem to create a moral issue for many Americans, who wanted to view themselves as good people. "Expansion and Indian removal created some phenomenal problems for the new American nation in terms of its moral character. How can this unique experiment in the new world- this nation that prided itself upon its democratic institutions, force Native American people westward?...
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