Reservations were created for Native Americans to relocate them so they could have land again. While it was good to give them land elsewhere, it was not the original land they had and it was somewhere strange to them. It also caused the Native Americans to be very segregated from the rest of society. The separation between the two different societies caused the rest of America to continually look down upon them.
While it may have not been the best option for them, it still gave Native Americans the opportunity to have a society of their own. However, you can tell when they leave the way some people may look at them or not respect them as much because of the color of their skin/their culture. It is true that they are apart of the reservation, but it does not mean that we can treat them as if they are aliens in their own land. It was the Europeans who took their land not the other way around. There is a tension there that will never be erased and cannot be forgotten.
America has become a great country since it has been started, but it is easy to forget that we have taken other people's land for our benefit. That is why Native Americans deserve the most respect because we took their land and gave them land somewhere else and they were able to live through that.
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