Americanization of Native Americans Education or Genocide

Americanization: The Beginning
Throughout history there have been dominant and subordinate groups, of different cultures, living in the same geographical area. In what is now known as the United States, two of these cultures are the dominant Europeans and the subordinate Natives Americans. These natives who have lived on the North American continent for over 10,000 years in a semi-peaceful existence had no idea of the tragedy that would beset them. Starting almost 500 years ago, explorers and settlers from Europe would turn these natives' lives upside down and inside out. For the most…