While both the Nez Percé Indians and New York immigrants physically suffered from greed due to a higher power, the New York immigrants were put into a worse situation because of the amount of people that were killed due to the constant exposure of bacteria that led to disease.
The Nez Percé Indians struggled with the greed of the government’s desire to own the ancestral land of the Indians. Chief Joesph was the leader of the Nez Percé tribe, Chief Joesph’s goal was to follow in his father’s footsteps by resisting to give up their ancestral land. The Nez Percé battled the government for their land, the tribe resided in Oregon peacefully. The American troops insisted the Indians move to a new land, when they fled the White Bird Canyon battle …show more content…
The American reformers set up training programs for the Indians so they could have the opportunity to own and operate their own farms. Later, the American government decided to divide the tribal land and distribute those lands to certain families. The tribal families had the full liberty to either hold their land or sell it (Brinkley, 398). The Indians, like the Nez Percé tribe fought with the government over many things, the main thing the Indians continued to struggle with was the constant greedy men who only wanted the gold and riches for …show more content…
Jacob Riis, a newspaper photographer visited the different homes and wrote about the reality behind the overcrowded housing. Jacob Riis visited these homes and saw the terrible conditions these new immigrants were living under. Many squeezed into un-kept rooms with unstable conditions, they were exposed to disease because of the way they disposed of waste products. Children were crowded out of schools just to get a room to sleep in at night. “The twenty-five cent lodging-house keeps up the pretense of a bedroom, though the head-high partition enclosing a space just large enough to hold a cot and a chair and allow the man room to pull off his clothes is the shallowest of all pretenses” (Jacob Riis). The conditions were not only harmful but also detrimental to each individuals health. Due to the lack of space, many resided on the streets and caught disease or died from dehydration or starvation. Immigrants were residing here to get a better way of living, instead they struggled to stay alive and have a place to sleep at
The Nez Percé Indians struggled with the greed of the government’s desire to own the ancestral land of the Indians. Chief Joesph was the leader of the Nez Percé tribe, Chief Joesph’s goal was to follow in his father’s footsteps by resisting to give up their ancestral land. The Nez Percé battled the government for their land, the tribe resided in Oregon peacefully. The American troops insisted the Indians move to a new land, when they fled the White Bird Canyon battle …show more content…
The American reformers set up training programs for the Indians so they could have the opportunity to own and operate their own farms. Later, the American government decided to divide the tribal land and distribute those lands to certain families. The tribal families had the full liberty to either hold their land or sell it (Brinkley, 398). The Indians, like the Nez Percé tribe fought with the government over many things, the main thing the Indians continued to struggle with was the constant greedy men who only wanted the gold and riches for …show more content…
Jacob Riis, a newspaper photographer visited the different homes and wrote about the reality behind the overcrowded housing. Jacob Riis visited these homes and saw the terrible conditions these new immigrants were living under. Many squeezed into un-kept rooms with unstable conditions, they were exposed to disease because of the way they disposed of waste products. Children were crowded out of schools just to get a room to sleep in at night. “The twenty-five cent lodging-house keeps up the pretense of a bedroom, though the head-high partition enclosing a space just large enough to hold a cot and a chair and allow the man room to pull off his clothes is the shallowest of all pretenses” (Jacob Riis). The conditions were not only harmful but also detrimental to each individuals health. Due to the lack of space, many resided on the streets and caught disease or died from dehydration or starvation. Immigrants were residing here to get a better way of living, instead they struggled to stay alive and have a place to sleep at