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Both during and after the colonial period of American history, white settlers waged a long series of wars against Native Americans with the aim of displacing them and colonizing their lands. Many Native Americans were enslaved as a result of these wars, while others were forcibly assimilated into the culture of the white settlers. [2]
There are also enormous racial gaps in education and health. Only 24% of Native American adults have a college degree compared to 47% of white adults and there is a similar gap in college enrollments.
Most Native Americans who joined the struggle sided with the British, based both on their trading relationships and hopes that the Americans' defeat would result in a halt to further white expansion onto Native American land. Many native communities were divided over which side to support in the war and others wanted to remain neutral.
In the decades that followed, white settlers encroached even into the western lands set aside for Native Americans. American settlers eventually made homesteads from coast to coast, just as the Native Americans had before them. No tribe was untouched by the influence of white traders, farmers, and soldiers.
In August 1862, tensions rose over Native Americans when desperate Dakota Indians attacked white settlements along the Minnesota River. More than 500 white settlers lost their lives along with 150 ...
Native American women were at risk for rape whether they were enslaved or not; during the early colonial years, settlers were disproportionately male. They turned to Native women for sexual relationships. [25] Both Native American and African enslaved women suffered rape and sexual harassment by male slaveholders and other white men.
The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American urban culture, which flourished in the South and Eastern regions of the United States prior to the arrival of White settlers. The Five Civilized Tribes is a term used for five major indigenous tribes who lived in the Southeastern United States.
Mary Campbell (later Mary Campbell Willford) was an American colonial settler who was known for her abduction by Native Americans during the French and Indian War being the first white child to travel to the Western Reserve. Born in 1747 or 1748, Campbell was taken captive by the Lenape tribe at the age of ten in 1758.