Wars

Over the years, there have been many conflicts between the Native American people and the white settlers who have come to settle in the United States. The while settlers were continually trying to push the Native Americans further west and take away their land. The white settlers saw nothing wrong with what they were doing.

There are different accounts for who started various different conflicts, however, no matter which side reacted first in different instances, the white people were still trying to take away the land that the Native American tribes had lived on for as long as they could remember. Their ancestors had grown up on that land.

It seems in our history books that there is and always has been conflict between the white people and the Native Americans. Usually we are taught that it is the Native American's fault. I came across a book called Lies My Teacher Told me: Everything your American History Textbooks got Wrong by James W. Loewen. It is about how many history textbooks are based on patriotism rather than what the facts really are. It has sections about what happened with many of the Native American tribes. Reading this could help us to identify what we know and what we thought we knew. It could show us what happened in a whole new way.