Imagine you were a woman living in the Nez Perce tribe, a tribe that had assisted hundreds of white Englishmen from the start of their arrival. But then suddenly, your trusted friend Governor Stevens turns his back on you and your people, he decides that miners could search for gold on your land. When you realize that the government soldiers are willing to kick you off your land, you are mad but you don't not want to conflict with white settlers so you leave but some of your tribe attacks killing four whites. This started a war which was called the Nez Perce War. What would you do if you were in the situation of the Nez Perce Indians?…
Picture this: you wake up one morning thinking it’s just going to be a normal day, but then, everything changes. Generals start invading your home and drag you off your front porch and tell you that you can’t live on this land anymore; that it is now for other people to use and have. You can’t grab anything to bring with you. All you have are the clothes and shoes that you have on, nothing more. Think about that.…
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.…
Imagine your family made a beautiful quilt full of their history and lineage, one that has been passed down to each generation. Now imagine that someone offered to buy that quilt from you, promising a good amount of money and another, “better”, quilt. This is like the Cherokee’s situation. The president promised new and better land, but it wasn’t as good as it sounded. When the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed, it gave the president, Andrew Jackson, power to talk to the tribes and negotiate them into signing a treaty saying that they will move to the Indian Territory.…
A cherokee Indian from the “Memorial of the Cherokee Nation,” describes the western land as badly supplied with food and water, unfamiliar cultures, and “wish to die” on this soil (Doc. K). Jackson forced the Indians to surrender their land and failed to provide any support in terms of food and other necessities for their westward migration. Because of the Indian’s utmost disenchantment, it is possible that they took their case to the Supreme Court. However, Jackson could have ignored that decision since he already had a majority vote in Congress to be condemned and impeached. Conjointly, Native Americans were gathered into similar places in the west.…
I am Chief Joseph, popular by Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt. I was born on March 3, 1840, in Wallowa Valley, Oregon Territory. When the United States attempted to force the Nez Perce to move to a reservation in 1877, I reluctantly agreed. Following the killing of a group of white settlers, tensions erupted again, so I tried to lead my people to Canada, in what is considered one of the great retreats in military history. I am the leader of one band of the Nez Perce people.…
Dear Ms. Beaird, I am in NSWB, and I signed up for interest in the RAM/ MOM trips. I definitely want to go to Wise/RAM (I went last year with the group Ginna Slattum organized). I will not be able to go to the Yorktown/MOM trip. I am interested in going to Emporia/ RAM trip; however, I am not sure if I will be able to go to that one at this time. Do you need a commitment about the Emporia trip by a certain date?…
Discussion 1 The turn of the century in 1900’s, most remaining Native Americans had been forced, to leave their ancestral lands; it was truly a time of cultural assimilation (Assimilation through Education). Some chose to live on the reservations that were created by the U.S. government starting in the 1890s, while others spent their lives hiding from whites whom they feared would kill or capture them. Native Americans world as they new it naturally died out, from progression (Assimilation through Education), they needed to become a part of white society. There Indian language, religion, and art, would become something from the past to be studied or viewed in a museum, but would not be the products of living cultures.…
Our homes torn away from us. All because of worthless traitors. They have paid for their betrayal, but I should start from the beginning. It all begins with the Indian Removal Act and Andrew Jackson. To begin, I’m Mohe, part of the Cherokee tribe, and I have been forcefully removed from my home.…
He commented "It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation” (Library of Congress, Jackson, 1830). At that time however only two tribes agreed to leave their land, the others were not in agreement with the Indian Removal Act. In response, the American Indians fought back on a political level, Chief John Ross who represented the majority of the American Indians who did not want to leave their lands tried to diplomatically and legally maintain autonomy with the United States…
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.…
“Jackson uprooted seventy thousand Indians from their homes and drove them west of the Mississippi River. He was clearing the way for the rise of the Cotton Kingdom”(Tamaki 82). This showed how disrespected the native American’s were from the society. The native American’s had no choice to stay they would have been attacked by the American…
I have received your letter and plea for help. I am so sorry, so very sorry. Your uncle Creon sounds like the worst kind of person and I wish him endless pain in the fields of punishment. I will be sure to tell the gods about what he has done and what he deserves. I hardly believe his actions have been ignored.…
But this was ignored and whites continued to move into Indian Territory. It is reported that U.S president Andrew Jackson responded by saying “Well John Marshall his decision. Now let him enforce it!” Andrew Jackson did nothing to help the Indians or make things better for them. He believed the best thing for them was to move them…
Summary #2 In Contradictions, Ronald Takaki continues to discuss the blatant racism exhibited by the Englishmen, particularly towards Native Americans, African Americans and the Irish. Claiming that Native Americans could not survive in white society, President Jackson sought to “abolish Indian tribal units and allow white settlers to take cultivated Indian lands” (Takaki, 81). The goal was to move the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River, so that they would be able to live in peace and have their own governments. The Native Americans, however, were not keen on giving up lands that had been theirs for generations.…