The Roots of Dependency The Navajos, Pawnees, and Choctaws all had to endure European, political, economical, and environmental threats to their own culture. When the life and subsistence system (hunting and gathering) of an Indian Nation is affected; in one way or another it has an affect on an Indian population as a hole. The trials and tribulations that these three tribal nations have experienced is proof of that. Gradually the Indian community would go …showed first 75 words of 743 total…

…showed last 75 words of 743 total…cultural ways clearly caused by those actions of whites. Indians needed a way to reform from these costly decisions influenced by whites. One way for reform was modernization. Being able to accept modern day ways and assimilate into a larger society without disregarding their own culture. The goal of the colonizers was to socialize, politically undermind, and culturally depict the relations of Indians in order to totally dominate the lifestyle of the North American Indian.