Effects Of Racism Against Native Americans

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Racism against Native Americans: with the Europeans’ influx on North America’s coasts and their methodical proposal to vanquish and takeover its territory, came racism and prejudice against Native Americans. Europeans assumed the first tenants of America were pagans and barbarians who needed to be enlightened within Christianity and European traditions. This directed to genocide, carnage, snatched property, efforts to annihilate Native American background, also involuntary mixing through organizations like domestic schools and the formation of “Indian preserves”. Additionally, medias interpretation of this region’s original citizens as vicious beasts helped vindicate European exploitations contrary to Native Americans. The lasting effects,