The issues of culture, diversity and oppression are very prevalent among Native Americans. When the Europeans came over to America, it began as the takeover of the land from the Native Americans. Native Americans were looked upon as a problem that needed to be extinguished. From the colonial period to the twentieth century, the indigenous people of America have experienced massacres, torture, sexual abuse, removal from their territories, and forced Native American children to military-like boarding schools up until the 1970’s (Present, 2006). Soon after the holocaust of American, Native Americans were gathered and tortured into a form of slavery and oppression (Present, 2006). They were often persecuted and abused just for their ethnic background.