Multicultural Event Research Paper

Virtual Multicultural Event The Native American History has always been my favorite subject to study in history class. I find their generosity and love of the land beautiful; I have also found their culture and pride, in everything they do, to be commendable. To learn more about these subjects the Minnesota Historical Society was sufficient with information. The following summary of six videos on the History of the Native Americans will come from that site. The first video, “Dakota Homeland”, gives an overview of what land was owned by the Dakota land. Early in the video the statement, “Dakota is not a nation of people. Dakota is a way of life in which you walk through this world”, already shows the strong spiritual involvement the Dakota people have with their land and culture. They refer to the land as their mother; everything that god has created and put on the earth is their relative. From the people they share their lives with and the buffalo they hunt, all the way to the blades of grass they walk …show more content…
Some Native Americans fled and some did not when the disputes got violent. I would have liked to learn whether or not the tribes that stood strong and fought for their land look/looked down upon the tribes that moved peacefully abandoning their land. Concerning the thirty-eight men that died for their tribe in the largest mass execution to date in the United States, this was an extremely shocking fact for me. I feel ashamed I was not aware of this before this week. If it is the largest mass execution to date in our country we should be learning more about that throughout our earlier years of schooling. After learning more in depth about the extremities of this war, I feel that it was extremely down played in my previous classes taken. This was an extremely heinous war with the Native Americans defending their rights, land, and