On March 5, 1770, a group of young colonists confronted a British soldier on guard at the Custom House- supposedly about money that was owed to one of the colonist´s masters. Refusing to pay any money, the soldier got back to work expecting the colonists to do the same and leave. However, they did not. The colonists resorted to throwing snowballs and ice at the guard, in a final attempt to persuade him to give up the money. Soon enough, other colonists joined the rebellion, and the crowd against the one British soldier swelled to a size that was out of control.…
Did you know? Native Americans lost their history, their land, their culture, and is one of the least discussed genocides in world history? In 1620, William Bradford involved itself with protestant Pilgrims who wanted to separate from England in search of religious freedom and happiness to the “New World.” Bradford helped organize the journey of the Mayflower with more than 100 passengers. In the historical account, “Of Plymouth Plantations” William Bradford describes his personal perspective toward Native Americans and experiences from the point where Puritans also known as Pilgrims are on sea to their first thanksgiving with the Native Americans.…
The War of 1812 was a military conflict between Great Britain and the United States that was fought from 1812 to 1815. Canada became involved due to the fact that they were a colony of Great Britain at the time and Canada had been invaded on multiple occasions by the United States. The war began because of conflict between Great Britain and the United States when Great Britain adopted economic sanctions that restricted American trade. Britain also infuriated the Americans when the HMS Geurriere attacked an American vessel looking for British born sailors on May 1st 1811 to force them into the Royal Navy. The Americans were already outraged about the sanctions and the attack simply brought it to the next level.…
The purpose of this source is to explain that when these tribes were forced to leave, they were sent on an 800-mile walk. Unfortunately, they were sent in brutal conditions without shoes, warm garments, limited food, and no money. “Their journey west became known as the Trail of Tears, because of the thousands of deaths along the way.” The audience of this source is for anyone who is unware that the Native Americans were cheated and robbed of their land, abused, and eventually forced on reservations as a result of American’s wanting to expand the nation. This source is reliable, because Jackson was not only a genocidal maniac against the indigenous people, but he was also racist, and violated nearly every standard of justice.…
Indians facing persecution turn to Native American religion and practice traditional sacred ceremonies in order to escape the reality of the psychological and physical mistreatment they face within American society. Mary Crow Dog was a Sioux Indian of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. (Pg.5) As a child Crow Dog attended the St. Francis boarding school where Indian children were forced to assimilate and faced with punishment if they disobeyed. (Pg.4) Crow Dog became involved with the American Indian Movement as a teenager and participated in some monumental movements in the 1970’s, including the Trail of Broken Treaties and the siege at Wounded Knee.…
The film “Century of Genocide in the Americas: the Residential School Experience” is a testimony to the atrocity and cruelty the white people incurred upon the Indians. The film shortly portrays the bizarre picture of the reservation where each and every day the Indians were killed, maimed, raped and denied human rights in varied forms. The film cites the second article of the 1948 Genocide Convention “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…” It conveys the message that white people committed genocide on the Indians. The writer of the article “Gee, You Don’t Seem like an Indian from the Reservation.”…
In the accounts of Christopher Columbus’s journey, historians depict him as any European other explorer during the same era, someone who is very religious and patriotic. The West was a new territory that the Europeans never thought of venturing to, but once discovering the West Indies and all that it has to offer, more explorers started to claim the land and settle there in the name of their respective Kings and Queens. Since the explorers at the time sought to colonize and spread the religion rather than to wipe out the natives, structuralism better explains the actions of early European explorers of the Americas. Even though the explorers did not intend to wipe out the native population, it is still considered a genocide because they essentially…
Areas such as Seattle, South Dakota, and Berkeley have chosen, rather, to celebrate Indigenous People's Day, and Native American Day.…
Native Americans killed the colonists on Roanoke island. This could have happened because earlier Sir Ralph Lane angered the Native Americans with their harsh policies. He also captured Indians for ransom and planned attacks against Indians. Also the Natives fought back, killing a settler and the settlers left the colony that was made. So after all that they had a bad relationship with the Natives.…
US government’s cruel treatment to American Indians According to a professor of ethnic at the University of Colorado whose name is Ward Churchill, the North American Indian population reduced from estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237000 in 1900. It is a big difference, which we can regard this as a vast genocide. Moreover, written by a historian at the University of Hawaii, Native Americans had undergone the worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents. The major reason of that reduction is the expansion of greedy US government.…
Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny was where Americans/whites thought that God wanted them to move west to the Pacific Ocean. It was their destiny to take all that land west. O’Sullivan said that “Manifest Destiny is going to happen so it might as well happen now it’s our destiny we can't change that”(History.com). Americans said anything in there way will be removed. Manifest Destiny affected minority populations in the United States because of the Indian Removal Act, Mexican-American War, and the Dawes Act.…
In Source 1 it states that if the Native Americans did not collect enough gold for the day the Spanish would cut their hands off. This shows how cruel they really were the Spanish even raped the Natives and killed them like wild animals. In conclusion this is why America should not memorize Columbus Day because of it's true background the cruel reality of the so called…
Native Americans history began thousands of years before Columbus, first European, step foot on their land in North America. The Native Americans are a significant part of the United States culture. Many of the past on stories were created by them specifically. Natives have lived on American land for longer than anyone ever remember. The Native American’s were the first ethnic group to find America, however, they live on this land without no disruption nor struggle.…
For many years in the newly developing America, there was a lot of debate about what to do with the so called “Indian problem”. Americans sought out various ways to remove the Indian population from lands in the east and eventually the west too as they continued to expand. There were four primary ideas that were proposed: to exterminate the Indian population, to assimilate them into American culture, to protect them on their ancestral lands (which just wasn’t likely to happen), or to move them to distant lands (which was seen as the Christian and humane thing to do). With these concepts in mind, congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 under the presidency of Andrew Jackson. This act was to then be carried out by Jackson negotiating…
Most of us know very little who roamed our lands before we “discovered them”, and instead praise one man’s inaccurate claims. That is why we should replace Columbus Day, which credits a man for deeds he did not do and ignores acts he did commit, and instead utilize the holiday to honor the indigenous peoples who were here before…