How the US government dealt with the growing migration
Can you please explain how the US government dealt (like what decisions they made) with the growing migration and expansion in the northwest, and how the American Indians in the region got affected by them?
The US government dealt with the migration and expansion of the native Americans in the northwest by believing it was a problem ‘Indian problem’ and the answer was simply to “civilize” the Native Americans. But their goal was making them like white Americans by converting them to Christianity learning to speak English and adapting capitalistic means of economics. Again, the government introduced laws that shielded the settlers acquiring massive arable land for the settlers and finally protecting them with police.
How American Indian were affected
They were affected in the way that most of the American Indians were displaced, their culture of hunting-gathering was affected and they had to shift to other means of economic gains like practicing the capitalist. Again due to the displacement they banished to their government restricted reservations which were at times inhuman and discriminative.
References
Catlin, G., & Dippie, B. W. (2002). George Catlin and his Indian gallery. Smithsonian American art museum.