The Indians And Losing Their Homes

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to tell them what to do, they lived by the theory of a higher power and spirits. they believed the Indian mind to be split into two parts, the spiritual and the physical. The spiritual was concerned with only the essence of things. On the contrary, the physical allowed one to see only things that were evident, avert danger or hunting. Each Indian had these qualities and they were all pure. From birth on, each Indian was a good person, not labeled bad or thought to have an evil mind. The Sioux tribe believed that courage and bravery were weighed as well as the intelligent mind. Young Sioux boys were sent to spend a night in the wilderness to show that they were strong and brave. The Sioux tribe and the rest of the Native Americans had different beliefs on many controversial subjects like religion and the person as a whole. They did not believe in one higher power, but that spirits were everywhere in the world and they helped out the individual. These spirits would join ...

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States government didn’t realize why the Indians wouldn’t leave, they were giving them more land and more privacy than what they originally had. It was like what happened to African slaves that were shipped to the United States in the mid 1800’s, civil war time. They had the choice to go back to Africa after they were given the right to be free, but they chose not to. The United States was their home now, and they did not want to leave. People don’t want huge houses just because they’re big, they would rather live in a place where they can feel secure and homely. That’s what the Indians had, and that’s what the white man took away.
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