Our History « A Trying Life

My main aim this summer is to be a more avid reader.  I have several books that I wish to accomplish.  Mostly, I feel an urge to read more of history, of where we've come from as a society, as Americans, and what heritage we carry on with the land that we inhabit.  Currently I am reading a book called Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman.  It is currently a good read I believe.  It is insightful to my 21st century experience, to read about a time and a place where Native Americans still had places to live away from "the white man" but they were needing to venture away from them.  I find it inspiring to have a glimpse into a world still holding onto its heritage, where these people were still active in their traditions before it was impossible to do so.  I feel like we are naive in our current way of living now.  It's as though we feel like we can have whatever we want and we actually deserve it.  I feel like this was the mentality of white men inhabiting this land in the days of the Native American.  They seemed to have felt that they deserved the land they were taking from the native American.  They seem to not have cared how it affected the native american family who had to pack up and leave their lands to live in land chosen by the American government.

The removal of Native Americans from their native lands is one of the most disappointing aspects of our history as Americans.