Akecheta Tribe Analysis

Decent Essays
I am Akecheta, from the Beothuk tribe. I have been the chief of this tribe for many years. I care about my people, and everything was at peace. I believed that there was nothing to worry about. Until my final days, I was to make sure that this tribe is to keep progressing. That was until this day, everything changed. It was today that I saw foreigners for the very first time. This is how it happened.
It all started when we were doing our daily harvest of our crops, then we saw their ship. The men got off, and by the way they looked I assumed they were hungry and dying. They didn’t know the land was inhabited, so they went around the land, taking things as they came. My tribe and I remained hidden. They were whining and complaining about how

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Teton Sioux Summary

    • 318 Words
    • 2 Pages

    We encountered the Teton Sioux. They are an unfriendly group and there were some tense moments. I remember specifically the Otoes tribe telling us this tribe would not open their ears. We also heard stories about them. They would roam the plains and beat up on anyone weaker than them.…

    • 318 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Miccosukee Seminole Indian tribe Over 200 years ago, the Miccosukee tribe have been known by its characteristic way of fighting to protect their territory. First, the Spaniards, and then even worse, the Anglo-American who tried to exterminate the Miccosukee’s Indians almost two centuries ago and who eventually left them no other option than to live in a very small place in ancestral areas of the Everglades in Miami. The Indians seeking for a decent style of life had to adapt themselves to sleep in hammocks. Their houses were called “chickees” and were made of wood, plaster, thatched roofs, and perhaps raised on stilts. After all this battle and years of persecution, they started to establish their permanent home and look for a better life…

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin is sovereign government with a long and proud history of self-government. As a part of the original five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Oneidas were under the jurisdiction of the Great Law of Peace, originally recorded on wampum belts. The Confederacy dates all the way back to the 1500s. The Oneida have persevered in the face of adversity for centuries, and we proudly and passionately continue to protect and preserve our homelands. The Iroquois Confederacy originally held millions of acres of land in what is now the state of New York.…

    • 578 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    While that was still in their homes they had a long, trying journey ahead of them. When they evacuated their homes they were forced into cattle cars, 80 people to a car. This left no room to sit so many slept standing up or…

    • 532 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Issue and Controversies in American History Dawes Act Americans believed in 1840, that they had to move westward; although the land was taken by the Native Americans. The Dawes Act, was a way to end the conflict between white settlers and the Indians; by giving the Indians and settlers their own plots of land. After the American Revolution white settlers continued to come to the New World, taking more from the natives for ranches, railroads, mining interest, as well as their own needs, causing the natives to have to move farther west. The government sought out to resolve the issue by giving the Indians large pieces of lands called reservations. Whites weren’t allowed to trespass on the land.…

    • 745 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many people were willing to make the long journeys because they heard of the mesmerizing tales, of the divine land that awaited them there. The tales of these lands, made groups of settlers sell all their belongings to make enough…

    • 1511 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I am the Tequesta Chief of the Tequesta tribe I lived in the florida keys on the coast I was gathering food in the everglades. When I had gotten a warning that big boats were coming to shore close to our village then the. Invasion happened they broke our canoes the took the women we had barely any defence against their armor and fire weapons that could kill a man with one shot. It was hopeless to use arrows against them. We then used close combat against them it worked for a while until a next wave came with more fire weapons and.…

    • 263 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Christopher Columbus sailed the blue Atlantic Ocean in 1492. He was mainly looking for gold to bring back to Europe, a continent concerned with wealth, religion, and royal government. However, on the east side of the Atlantic, the indigenous people were notable “for their hospitality, their belief of sharing”(Zinn, pg 1), as well as their concentration on nature, working with others in their village or tribe, and diversity. Millions of miles of ocean split these two distinct peoples apart, but they would soon collide for the worst. The Europeans sailed to find wealth and land, yet in the process they destroyed the indigenous people’s cultural foundations, their way of valuing the land, and almost their whole population.…

    • 1492 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Trail Of Tears Analysis

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Osiyo! Thats hello in cherokee. I’m Adahy nice to meet you. I’m 10 years old and a boy. I live in western North Carolina, but my relatives used to live in the more southern states til they got forced on the Trail Of Tears by Andrew Jackson’s troops.…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Trail of Tears occurred in 1830 when President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Indian tribes were forced off their land and moved to Oklahoma. Thousands of Native Americans died on this trip. The white man hated the Indians; therefore, they forced the Native Americans to move. However, to understand the full extent of this hatred we need to look back at when the colonist first came in 1607 to establish Jamestown, Virginia was settled.…

    • 1189 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Precious in God’s Sight: Dedication Page I dedicate Precious in God’s Sight, the first book of the Affirmation Station: Basket Books series, to my two daughters and my grandchildren. To borrow your grandmother’s words, “You give me joys like you cannot imagine.” I also dedicate this book to the memory of my Mother, Bea, whose love for the Bible and me, whose strength and care inspired the Affirmation Station: Basket Books series. And to the Native American community into which I was born and raised, you surrounded me with affirmation and made me believe I could achieve.…

    • 133 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Native Americans Imagine aliens from another planet landing on earth. Imagine if the people of the land accepted them and taught them how to survive on earth, only for the aliens to take away the land. In “Native Americans: Contact and Conflict,” Native Americans wrote down their experiences, letting the reader get a different perspective on events and occurrences that the reader would not get from reading white colonist papers. The writings provide the viewer with understanding and knowledge of Indian beliefs, culture, and feelings towards the white immigrants. At the beginning Indians welcomed the English with hospitality.…

    • 806 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This Land Is Your Land

    • 1007 Words
    • 5 Pages

    “This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters, this land was made for you and me” (Guthrie). Contrary to the lyrics in “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie, this land was apparently not made for “you and me.” America was only made for the “me” aspect of the song, “me” being the Americans. Thousands of years ago, the Americas were undiscovered by the Europeans. Now, this land withholds a great country.…

    • 1007 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I'm Nicole Whittern and I am an Aleut, a proud member of the Qawalangin Tribe. Native to Unalaska, Alaska. Unalaska is where I grew up, and the place I will always call home. My grandma, Kathryn Grimnes, was the head of the Aleut Corporation after WW1 when no one else would step in. She fought hard to save the corporation and support the people.…

    • 217 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Paper #1: Chapters 1-3 of Voices of Freedom Looking back at the whole occurrence of the discovery of the New World it becomes evident the many hardships that the colonial settlers caused which justifies the egocentric intentions of the many Europeans. It seems that even though the settlers were fleeing from a country that forced views among themselves or caused unjust situations; the colonists were precisely acting on the foreign population, who they viewed as “lesser”, similarly to that of their homelands. Although at the time the occurrence was not obvious, looking at it from today’s standpoint, it is quit ironic. On more than one instance the settlers treated distinctive groups with an inhumane disrespect with no regard to their well-being.…

    • 1052 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays