Arapaho

We have all heard the story of Thanksgiving in elementary school. The Native Americans and the British colonists came together to share a meal and celebrate their new friendship. The Native Americans shared their farming techniques and in return the settlers shared their new technology. After that they all lived together in peace. While it would be lovely it all worked out this way, unfortunately their relationship was much more complicated and bloody. Since the time the British settlers landed,…

1. One part that I found interesting in Twain’s “Stagecoach Bits” was his description of the mail that was three days late. The amount that was placed not only in the coach with the passengers but also with in various other places besides the roof leaves one to only guess how that coach looked when it was done being loaded. Twain leaves this image of an overstocked coach with barely any room inside as the mail sacks rise to the sky. Secondly, was their snap judgment to strip down to their…

Furthermore, December of 1862 held the largest Native American execution in America. Thirty eight Native Americans in the west were hanged because they refused to move. In 1864, a group of Colorado soldiers killed around four hundred Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. The idea of total Civil War continued to move Native Americans towards the west and decrease the population of the Native…

itself. The Devil’s Tower is a monstrous rock formation that seemingly comes out of nowhere in the middle of a forest, and is said to have spiritual value to the native tribes that live in the surrounding areas. There are many tribes, such as the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, Lakota, Sioux, etc.,(Hanson) that claim the exclusive rights to the use of the land for ceremonial purposes, as well as the public claim it for their own recreational hiking and climbing purposes. The theory that the land…

On the day February 4 2002 a boy was born. Not only was that boy's name James but that child is me. James Osgood born February 4 2002. I am in my last year of middle school as I am currently writing this, and I will show you the way I feel towards things and how I am treated during school. I am/think I am actually really smart, but I hate school because of the dark corrupted feel of it. I find myself to be the most mentally innocent person in my grade but as I am surrounded by corruption my…

When discussing the American West, one cannot carry on a conversation without mentioning the Native Americans. They played many roles throughout American history. In the west they played several. American Indians opened up the west by helping explorers, elevated the horse in their culture to an iconic status, changed the ecological balance in many places throughout the west, proved to the U.S. and Mexico that they were a force to be reckoned with. First, the Native Americans played an important…

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Reflecting a reembracing of spirituality, perhaps in reaction to the rationalism of Enlightenment thought, the Second Great Awakening describes a period in American history from the late 1700s to just before the Civil War when zeal for Protestant religious participation, church membership, and Bible study increased rapidly (Schwarz, 2005, p. 91). Along with this revival of personal piety grew a strong “evangelistic” desire to go…

Native American Religion Native Americans migrated from Asia into Alaska around 12,000 or more years ago. Once they got to Alaska, they started to head south and east. Even when they started to move away from different tribes, they still maintained the same, or very similar, spiritual beliefs. They were the only group to live in the land where it is now called the United States of America. The 'older ' group of Native Americans considered themselves as 'Indians ' or 'American indians ',…

(1809), and seemed to continue throughout the 100 years. Americans committed atrocities, Sand Creek Massacre of 1846: c.700 members of the Colorado Territory militia attacked tribes, killing women and children, and took land from the Cheyenne and Arapaho. This made American expansion difficult as Native Tribes were eager to fight for the land they had lived on for generations. Treaties with the tribes were made and changed (c.400) to enable American citizens to expand and complete their…

Sand Creek The Morning After In Annette Jaimes, “Sand Creek The Morning After” she first starts by giving a background to the atrocities done to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho in late 1864 after stating they were at peace. This group of people, after being having countless lives taken, were driven out of their Colorado. She moves forward two decades where the American Indian community celebrate the renaming of Nichols Hall and honoring those who were slaughtered at Sand Creek. As the new…