The Conflict

The Native Americans have a rough relationship right? Yes. Their relationship has always been this way right? NO.

Native Americans and Africans Americans were once people under the same roof who had very similar cultures and beliefs. The "bad blood" between them is only a recent issue. The Native Americans were promised money by the government for their tribes. The money is to be shared among all the members of the tribe evenly. Learning of this, the Native Americans decided to exclude African Americans from the tribe in order to only have the money distributed among Native Americans of pure blood. The Native Americans feel that the Africans were not truly part of the tribe because they did not go through all the same trials and tribulations. Although, some of them did. Sociologically speaking, the Africans and Natives had very similar cultures. They both had very deep ties with nature and respect for the gods which governed each part of the earth. They were very easy to get along with. When the Africans escaped slavery, many of them ended up settling on Native reservations where they found safety and companionship. The Native American chiefs are being greedy and forgetting the connections of the past in the face of money that they and the African Americans deserve.