Relocation Policy
Map of Indian Reservations
The Relocation Policy was when the United States government tried to encourage the natives to leave their reservations, acquire skill, and assimilate into the general population. It is much like the Assimilation Policy. It tried to get the natives to abandon the life that they knew and to take up a whole new life style. It was not required by the government, but they did try to get the natives to do it.
Removal Policy
Trail of Tears
The Removal Policy is when the United States Government moved the Native Americans to a different place so that the government could sell or use their land. The natives were often moved to Indian reservations were they could live in peace. The natives would still have their family, but they wouldn't have their true home. The government gave them the reservations as their new home. The natives didn't like this at all. They wanted their freedom.
Assimilation Policy
Indian School
The Assimilation Policy was a policy designed to try to change native american culture and beliefs to European cultures between the years 1790 and 1920. They took the natives into schools and taught them their ways. They tried to completely take away the native's way of life. All of the children had to go to school and learn European schooling such as their language, their math, and their rules. The schools were tough. When the natives first went to school they had to get new hair cuts and new English names. They were no longer allowed to speak their own language, even to each other. The schools helped the natives blend in, but they were taken advantage of.
Sovereignty
The Sovereignty Policy was put in motion to help the natives understand their position in government (based on the government's point of view). It helped them understand the relationship between the federal, state, and tribal governments. The Native Americans were taking more power then the government thought that they should have. The Indian Reservations were where the natives had to live.
E. H. Willowcreek Middle School
Last Revised on March 28, 2013
Last Revised on March 28, 2013