Black Indians in the United States

An example of the United States Government taking advantage of Native Americans noncitizen status to force the Native Americans into unfair agreements is the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This law was signed into law in May of 1830 by President Andrew Jackson (Library of Congress). It gave Jackson the power to grant Native American lands within state borders to white Americans in exchange for land that was unsettled west of the Mississippi. This act lead to many Native Americans being forcefully…

In the early 1900s, Mahatma Gandhi was the prominent leader of the Indian Independence Movement. In 1955, a young Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat over to a white man in spite of the laws set in place. An act that would lead to her arrest. In the mid-1950s, the renowned Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States defying Jim Crow laws through sit-ins, conducting marches and boycotts, and accepting jail sentences in the attempt to highlight racial injustice.…

Native Americans were the ones living on that land and had no say in weather or not it should be sold. Now the United States were going to have to deal with them again. Most people did not want to have more problems with the native Americans like they have had before. After the whites encountered the native Americans they would invade Indian land. After some time they started make Indian reservations. Many tribes refused to be moved to these reservations because they did not include their…

Statue of Liberty, was given to the United States from France in 1886. Being the most potent of American symbols, her best well-known depiction is a woman with white European features. Going against the common norm, an article titled “Lady Liberty Will Be a Black Woman on a U.S. Coin”, published by the New York Times on January 13 of 2017, announced that the United States Mint will release a commemorative gold coin in April of 2017 that depicts Lady Liberty as a black woman. This national news…

When he surrendered he was thinking of the little ones that were freezing to death. In the course book on page 547, it states the General Nelson Miles had promised the Nez Perce that they could return to their homeland once they surrendered. He betrayed them. Just like the United States government betrayed the Lakota Sioux with the guaranteed that they would control the Black Hills and then took it away from them once they heard there was gold. I looked into Chief Joseph’s life and found his…

Section I, 1. Why was Napoleon willing to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States? How did Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase transform America’s understanding of itself and its future? Was it inevitable that the West would become part of a much greater United States? Napoleon Bonaparte, before he decided to sell Louisiana was already facing many problems. Toussaint Louverture, a French Revolutionist, succeeded in taking over Hispanola and was now the ruler and was now the ruler of French…

American citizen as well as restricting states of stripping citizens of “life, liberty, or property without due process of law”, and denying citizens “equal protection of the laws.” This amendment was created to specifically target black citizens giving them equality before the law. (Roark, Johnson, Cohen, Stage, & Hartmann, 2014, Pg. 466 ) The 14th amendment is important to this era due to the county moving to making every man equal in the United States. Dawes Allotment Act: This law passed in…

American rights, and failed to create meaningful laws that would protect their civil liberties, even though he was a strong advocate for equal rights. “After the 1878 congressional and state elections, Hayes admitted in private that his experiment in entrusting southern whites to protect the civil rights of blacks had failed.” Hayes did not use his position in power to benefit the African Americans enough. Even with the Compromise of 1877, the south failed to follow through on their promise to…

Pocahontas was an Indian, so she did not belonged to Rolfe’s race; therefore, she did not know anything about the European religion. But Pocahontas had a “desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God,” (Prep 4, 2) which weighed more than the fact that she was an Indian. Religion could see pass through race. All races were welcome to the paths of God; for Rolfe race was not an impediment to bring people to God. Rolfe’s impediment to marry Pocahontas was not that she was an Indian it…

once praised a Native American for his skillful way of killing a man with his pistol and then simply paying for his funeral, had invaded the Black Hills, which were sacred to the Sioux and protected by a treaty, during the beginning of the gold rush in the Black Hills. The Native Americans asked the U.S. government to honor the treaty and protect the Black Hills from such an invasion, but in turn the US miners asked them to evict the Native Americans from their land so they could mine for gold.…