American Native and U.S Government

American Native and U.S Government

Introduction

The term Native Americans refers specifically to the descendants of people living in what is now the contiguous United States prior to the mass arrival of settlers from other continents. . Other terms to refer to Native Americans include American Indian, Indian, Amerindian, Native, and Indigenous. Native Americans have a long historical relationship with the U.S. government, beginning before the American Revolution with the signing of treaties, mostly for trade and friendship, between Native American tribes and European-American colonies. With the course of the time they had been dispossessed of much of their ...