In the 1900’s, America was full of many types of people, races and cultures such as the Native Americans or African Americans, and the individualism of every American citizen was what made America what it was. The different cultures that developed throughout the United States left a huge impact on American history such as how the Native American tribes would often help or hinder pioneers in the West, even the great explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who forged a path to the West could not have survived without the help of the Native Americans and Sacagawea, yet the Frontier thesis provided by Frederick Jackson Turner briefly describes the Native Americans as primitive and ignores their viewpoint of what the American Frontier was. The Native Americans, with all their influence on the creation of America, had their perspective glossed over, if not entirely left out, in Turner’s thesis. For the perspective of such an …show more content…
Turner’s thesis, written on the American frontier however, was something that was suppose to describe the frontier to everyone in the United States and give people an understanding of a topic unknown to all but who settled there. The Turner thesis described a land of opportunity that was to be found in settling the West, and yet, it seems to be closely related to the romanticism found in myths such as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. For a thesis to be viable it has to represent the truth and facts about the topic, and set aside personal opinions to find the best way to describe the topic itself, but Turner’s thesis seemed to have had a large correlation to the popular myths created by personal opinions of the people in the East. Turner’s thesis seemed to be influenced more by the personal opinions about the West by Turner himself, rather than the actual truth and facts found in the West. Thus, due to the fact that Turner’s thesis was influenced more by the personal opinions of the nation rather than the actual facts it couldn’t be considered to be a viable thesis of the American