American-Indian Relations: Historical Analysis and Key Questions

This essay provides an overview of the historical relationship between Americans and Indians in the United States, highlighting the cultural exchanges, rivalries, and challenges that have shaped their interactions over time. It summarizes an article discussing the differences between American and Indian cultures, historical events, and personal experiences of living in an Indian town. The essay poses critical questions about the relationship between the two cultures, their survival strategies, and the evolution of their interactions. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding this history for a comprehensive view of the United States' past and present, while encouraging readers to explore the complexities of this relationship further.

Running head: HISTORY
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Introduction
Americans and the Indians are two different cultures of people who have been living
in the United States of America for a long period of time. The two different cultures have a
number of ways by which they have come in the exchange of their distinct cultures with each
other and both the groups have given and taken a lot from each other. While their relationship
had changed over the years, they relations have undergone a great deal of change in the years.
Thus, it can be said that the relationship between the two cultures has experienced a lot of
change between the two cultures.
The purpose of the essay is to summarize the article and to pose questions from
each chapters presented in the articles.
Summary
In the respective chapters of the articles, presented in the YouTube links, the readers
get to know about the contents of the chapters of the article itself. In Chapter 13 of the article,
the readers get the information that the author talked about the Indians as well as the
Americans who have lived on the country for a long time (Stuart, 2016). It is the difference
between their cultures which have been mentioned by the author in the articles itself. Apart
from the major difference between the characters, the author had also talked about the history
of the place and how the place from his grandfather’s time to the time that the protagonist
was the part of the city itself. This is what the author had talked about in the article itself
(Smedley, 2018).
This point from the story provers the foolishness of the white people who believes
that the mountains were owned by the Indians and the Indians wiseness at living in the place
for very long time.

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In Chapter 14, the author has talked about the experiences of living in an Indian town
andbing the only foreigner to live in the area himself. In the following chapters, the author
have also talked about the various problems which the Americans and the Indians and the
rivalries and the controversies that took place between the Indians as well as the Americans
in the early years in the country itself .
Questions for the Topic
Fromm the article itself, it is important for the readers to choose a set list of questions
for the readers so that the readers would be able to answer these questions to their knowledge
and the analysis of the questions itself. These questions would help the readers to understand
how well they have understood the subject matter of the essay itself (Fixio, 2016). The
questions will be based on the subject matter which is available to the readers throughout the
articles which they have been provided in the course of the essay itself. The questions
provided based on the articles will be provided to the readers below:
1.What did the author say about the relation between the Americans as well as the Indians at
the beginning of the article presented to the readers themselves?
2.How did the Americans as well as the Indians managed to survive together in the country?
3.What kind of rivalries developed between the Americans as well as the Indians in the
country themselves?
4. How did the relationship between the readers and the Indians improve in the last years?
5.What kind of relationship the two cultures face in the world in the in the current times?
Personal response to the article
When reading the article, the readers get to know about the fact that the author has
written on the basis of the relationships which have been shared by the Indians and the

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Americans in the country itself (Smedley, 2016)). The author starts from the very beginning
of the article itself and states the context of the rivalries which developed between the White
people and native Indians who used to live in the country during that time. The essay is a
good example for the new people to have a clear understanding of the relationship between
the Americans and the Indians in the country. Therefore, it is essential for the people to learn
about the history of the Indians as well as the white skinned people (Stuart, 2013).
Conclusion
It is from the above articles, the readers can get the idea of the relationship between
the Americans as well as the Indians who lived in the country for a long time. The article
thus, shows the readers the main difference between the lifestyle of the Americans and the
Indians who were the natives of the country. Therefore, the essay is an effective way to
understand the history of the country of the United States of America itself.

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Reference List
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Fredrickson, G. M. (2015). Models of American ethnic relations: A historical perspective. In
Diverse Nations (pp. 19-28). Routledge.
Smedley, A. (2018). Race in North America: Origin and evolution of a worldview.
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Stewart, C. (2016). Creolization: history, ethnography, theory. In Creolization (pp. 9-33).
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Williams Jr, R. A. (2013). Linking arms together: American Indian treaty visions of law and
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