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US government used military force to push natives out of their native lands in the southeast and forced them into small chunks of land in Oklahoma.

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I remember that this was an issue because it was an agreement signed to allow the forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands, however it was signed by a group of people who weren't actual leaders of the Cherokee.

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Plans to put pipes directly under Native reservations which would disrupt the sacred tribal land and also has negative environmental implications.

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This was the force migration of the Cherokee nations from their homelands to reservations west of the Mississippi river.

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This was a bill passed I believe in the 1830's that was designed to remove Native Americans from their homelands

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The Savage vs. The Peacemaker with Nature

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The Savage vs. The Peacemaker with Nature

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There are many false views of Native culture, however I remember these two. The first where Native Americans are savages with no respect for human life, and the second where they are so in tune with nature and never damage it; both of which are false.

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Building off other note about trail of tears, the Native Americans would be forced into camps where they would wait to be relocated further west. A large portion of the native population in the area died because of the whole situation.

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I think I remember talking about the schools that were opened on Native reservations to try and assimilate the youth into being christian and white washed. They thought of it as "civilizing" them.

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Native voices are often left out of popular media and news, and when they are included, they're often portrayed in a disrespectful manner.

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Many teams and such use a misrepresented version of Native people and culture as a sort of mascot. Even in Mass, I know that Arlington has an insensitive mascot for their high school regarding Native people.

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As white, European settlers began to expand into more land, the Cherokee people got pushed out further and further. Having to learn new land and losing many on the way, the Cherokee people suffered greatly from being forced out of their native land. Many died at the hands of white settlers and in the harsh weather conditions trying to find a new place to settle down.

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Leaders of tribes would keep resisting the removal by the government and until they were forced out. The government used a fake petition with fraudulent signings as a reason to kick them out.

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There are a lot of harmful stereotypes in our society about Natives. That continuously resurface in movies,tvs, books, etc.

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Even today,  football teams continue to use Native Americans as a mascot. This perpetuates the stereotype that they are "savages".  There has also been a long history of football rivalries between Native American and White schools.

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Since Thanksgiving became a widely celebrated American holiday, there has been a false narrative of peaceful, friendly relationships between the Wampanoags and Pilgrims. In reality, relationships between the 2 groups turned violent soon after the first Thanksgiving and large numbers of Native Americans were killed.

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the depiction of native americans as people who are technologically backward/behind, but who live in complete harmony with nature and with their surroundings

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Being "Native American" is not a single cultural identity, yet American society consolidates hundreds of unique native cultures into one, stereotypical, "all-encompassing" native culture. In reality, there were hundreds of native nations, each with their own traditions, languages, and cultures.

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The Mormon Cow Incident and Harney Massacre

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The Mormon Cow Incident and Harney Massacre

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A cow, belonging to westward-bound Mormon settlers, wandered into a Lakota Sioux village. The cow was slaughtered, which led to a conflict between the US Army and Lakota Sioux. The US Army demanded that the Sioux turn over whoever killed the cow, but the Sioux refused, offering horses as reparation instead. This sparks a conflict that left 29 US soldiers dead. As revenge, US Brigadier General William Harney massacres a group of Sioux.

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The Black Hills, a territory considered sacred to the Sioux, were set aside as land belonging exclusively to the Sioux. In 1874, Custer's Expedition discovers gold in the region, leading to over 1000 miners settling in the area by 1875. The US eventually claims ownership of the Black Hills through an illegitimate change of the original treaty. The Sioux are still fighting to get this land back.

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Representation of how Native Americans talk through a Hollywood lens

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Representation of how Native Americans talk through a Hollywood lens

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The way stereotypical Native American characters speak English in Hollywood films has no basis in historical fact; instead, it is intended to perpetuate the untrue depiction of Native Americans as a backwards race. Stereotypical speech includes the word "how," references to nature ("many moons," etc. etc.), and either slowed speech monosyllabic speech, or silence.

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Native Nations were forced into signing treaties with the US government, which slowly but steadily shrunk the area of land they had and pushed them onto ever-smaller reservations.

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If one wanted to find an exhibit on Native Americans, one would likely find it in a natural history museum, right next to the dinosaurs and long-extinct animals. This implies that Native people are a thing of the past and long dead, when in fact, they and their cultures are still very much alive.

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Many native children were forcefully taken from their families and placed in boarding schools, where they were forbidden from speaking in their respective indigenous languages or engaging in their culture. This was deliberately to force native children to assimilate to "mainstream" U.S culture and many of these children were physically and sexually abused in these boarding schools.

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Pilgrims often depicted as saviors who asked the Natives to join them for a "family dinner" when in reality it was an uncomfortable encounter and there was heavy tension between the groups since Pilgrims were often violent towards Natives.

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Pilgrims became the "original Americans", despite the fact that Native Americans had been there for years, simply because they were white Protestants.