My thoughts on our Native American field trip experience

I learned a lot on this trip and I really enjoyed learning about it. We went to Saugatuck museum of the art and we watched a documentary about the people at Standing Rock and Native Americans around the Midwest and in Michigan. We also learned about how the people who came from Europe treated them poorly. That really opened my eyes and it made upset because the settlers from Europe came and “Dehumanized” the Native Americans that lived here. They put the kids in boarding schools and some years they would not come home because they were forced to work. If they broke any rule they were treated fairly poorly and punished severely. Some punishments even being fatal, which is crazy. The people who came from Europe made treaties with the Native Americans broke them and took their land for themselves. Which is the land that you and I now live in. Now the government is risking the water supply of one of the Native American reservation by building the South Dakota pipeline. Which is Standing Rock one of the reservations given to the Native Americans by the government. There were protests by the Sioux tribes and some of them were severely injured by the policemen. I think that it is super unfair on how they are treated and that is my thoughts on that.

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