Billie Wind: Seminole Tribe Legends

Improved Essays
Billie Wind is a girl who is very curious. She needs facts and evidence to believe information people explain to her. Billie Wind starts off as a doubter and is stubborn (3). Charlie Wind is concerned about Billie believing in the Seminole tribe legends. Not believing in the culture leads to punishment. She is sent to the Everglades to find evidence so she can believe in the legends. Billie Wind clarifies that the tribal legends are true by using her curiosity. Petang and Cootchobee help during the adventure. The girl stumbles across two friends along the way (39) (84). After they meet, Petang helps to retrieve food for them (86). The growing of an animal can show the growing of another’s understanding. As she went on the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Quanah Parker Quanah Parker was a Comanche indian tribe leader. He was born around 1850 (no exact date), to Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl taken captive during the 1836 raid on Parker’s Fort, Texas, and Comanche chief Peta Nocona (Biggs). He was raised on the reservation by both parents. Quanah often witnessed his father brutally abuse his mother, and forced her to be sexually active with him.…

    • 390 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Joseph Brant was a Mohawk Indian during the revolutionary war, but what had made him special was his story. Of course he was a chief of the Mohawk tribe who served as a loyalist and assisted the British in many different ways during the war but he did much more than that. He was an enemy to the Americans, but he would have been a bigger threat to the world if he were to have lived a little bit longer because they didn't call him "Monster Brant" for nothing. During the war, Joseph was known and praised by the British as a hero, leader, and great commander.…

    • 559 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I am a chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe. Known the best for my success in confrontations with the U.S. government. Born in Nebraska in 1822I led as a chief from 1868 to 1909. I am one of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced; I led a successful campaign in 1866 to 1868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. My parents named me after an unusual weather event.…

    • 556 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Do you know what ceremonies the Seminole tribe had? One of them was a ceremony talking about dead people. They would say if a member in your family died the person who killed them would get a punishment by the family members. The relatives of the dead person could pick anything they want the punishment to be. They could pick them being dead or just a painful punishment.…

    • 925 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Culture of the Choctaw Indians The culture of the Choctaw Indians evolved across the centuries merging European-American influences, although relations with France, Spain, and England significantly influenced it as well. They were well known for their rapid modernization, developing a written language, changing to yeoman agricultural methods, and the lifestyles of European-American and African-Americans imposed on their way of life and their culture. The Choctaw society has its roots embedded in the Mississippian mound-building era. The early religion of the Choctaw consisted of a belief in a good spirit and an evil spirit.…

    • 572 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Native American response paper This response paper will be on the articles A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands by David E. Wilkins and Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas by Debra Merskin. The first article discusses what the Indian tribes were and where they resided. There are many common terms to refer to the native people including American Indians, Tribal nations, indigenous nations, first peoples, and Native Americans. Alaskan natives are called by their territories like the Inuits or the Aleuts.…

    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jaime Jo US History 2 Ms. Bruno Native American Experience Chickasaw Tribe The Chickasaw tribes are said to be descended from a story of brothers, Chisca and Chacta. These people were known as “Flat Heads” because of their custom of the flattening of skulls of children in which they would put weight on their heads. Chickasaw lived around the northeastern area of Mississippi of the Tombigbee River.…

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Chickasaw people originated when the Choctaw and the Chickasaw people divided from one nation into two distinctly different nations. It is estimated this happened sometime around the 17th century. The oral history of the Chickasaw says they migrated along with the Choctaw to present-day Mississippi from west of the Mississippi River. When the Europeans first encountered them, the Chickasaw were living in villages in Northeastern Mississippi. In the 15th century, proto-Chickasaw people left the Tombigbee Valley, their current place of residence, after the collapse of the Moundville chiefdom.…

    • 168 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cherokee Nation Dbq

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages

    To persuade United States Congress, is a daunting task. Not only does the petitioner need majority support from the populous, they need to present valid points and rebut objections with facts. In the 1800’s this task would be difficult for common folk and impossible for those in the wrong social class. The Cherokee Nation made a valiant effort in 1829 to defy these odds. Their petition to Congress was noble, contained valid facts and objections, and received support of many transcending figures.…

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    acid-tongued, and downright cruel; some Amberton townsfolk think she's a witch. So every time the Wind blows, Diane goes a little crazy. She enters a sort of fugue state, and does things she can't remember. Like kill Christie's friends, her horse, and freak out a little that she can hear her baby crying in the distance.…

    • 99 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Cherokee Tribe of today is made of 3 different groups that all descend from the same common tribe which was formed in the late 1800s. The Cherokee community has more than 300,000 tribal members, making it the largest of the 567 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Upwards of 800,000 people claim having Cherokee ancestry on US land. With Oklahoma being the largest census of acclaimed Cherokee tribe members, members reside within 14 counties of that state. The Tribes economic impact within Oklahoma and neighboring northeastern states, is at an estimated $1.5 billion.…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are not the group of Cherokee Indians you usually hear about in history books. Many people are familiar with Cherokee Indians, but far too many people think that ALL Cherokees walked the Trail of Tears and ended up in present day Oklahoma during the mid 1800’s. Some Cherokee people agreed to the new laws, and together, 1,000 Cherokees purchased 57,000 acres of land of western North Carolina territory. Around 16,000 Cherokees left Appalachia on the Trail of Tears. In North Carolina, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation thrived and were able to keep their traditions and culture alive.…

    • 621 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Memorial of the Cherokee Nation is about the plight of the Cherokee Indians in the 1830s. Beginning after the War of 1812 when the white men were moving south in to states such as Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, five civilized Indian nations occupied these states and the Cherokees in particular were located in Georgia. This land was prime for growing cotton and the white farmers wanted the Indians off of the land so they could prosper from cotton growing. There were federal treaties in place granting the Cherokee and the other Indian nations in the area the right to live on the lands they occupied. There were two cases that went before the Supreme Court, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1830) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), where the Supreme Court upheld the rights of the Cherokees.…

    • 701 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Moon Shadow Analysis

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The story starts in China when Moon Shadow starts to talk about how he has never met his father because he left to the Golden Mountain before he was born. He talks about how he heard stories from his mother and grandmother about how his grandfather got lynched as he stepped on the land, Moon Shadow then gets a letter from his father, Windrider, asking Moon Shadow to come to America with his uncle, Hand Clap. Mother and grandmother think it’s a bad idea but he goes anyway. After the voyage over to America, Moon Shadow gets inspected by Uncle Bright Star, he goes to hug his father.…

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Lamp At Noon Analysis

    • 1200 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Many individuals often find themselves making a decision that lack careful consideration, which might lead to consequences that can heavily influence their future. For an individual to make a careful course of action which results into positive enduring effect, it requires determination and motivation. However, in order to be fully motivated and determined, it first depend on the nature the individual is in. In the short story, “The Lamp at Noon” by Sinclair Ross explores the idea that the nature such as, the Great Depression affects Paul’s decision making. Through Paul’s stubbornness, he refuse to leave his farm because of his selfish motivation to build a future on his farm.…

    • 1200 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays