Black Indians in the United States

of the United States there has been discrimination against specific groups of people. Americans have discriminated against Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the past. There is not a time when a national emergency justifies creating laws and rules applicable only to people of a certain ethnic, racial or religious background. Hundreds of native peoples made up of millions of individuals occupied the lands that would become the United States of…

constructs resulting from identification with multiple categories. Discussing the readings “The Legacy of Slavery, by Angela Davis, “Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber, and “Columbus, The Indians & Human Progress” From: Peoples History of the United States – 1492 – Present, by Howard Zinn, I will examine how subjugated knowledge and binary thinking contributed to historical misrepresentation, marginalization, and oppression of people based on gender, race, and…

system worked in the United States. His National Republicans were common white men who held slaves. To get their support, Jackson promised them political power. Thus, he introduced a national political spoils system.…

the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation” (Library of Congress, Jackson, 1830). At that time however only two tribes agreed to leave their land, the others were not in agreement with the Indian Removal Act. In response, the American Indians fought back on a political level, Chief John Ross who represented the majority of the American Indians who did not want to leave their lands tried to diplomatically and legally maintain autonomy with the United States…

included the Black Hills in western South Dakota be exempt from any and all white settlement until the end of time. With this the tribe was given protected hunting rights under the treaty. Until European Americans discovered gold in the black hills around 1874 and from that moment the Sioux reservation and its peoples would, again, have their lives disturbed by the government and its “promises”. The famous General George A. Custer decided to fund an investigative expedition in the Black Hills…

accepted in American today is the American Indian mascot. From the little league fields of suburbia to Major League Baseball stadiums - from Pop Warner to the hallowed grounds of FedEx Field, home of the National Football League’s Washington D.C. Redskins - for decades American Indians have been harmed and overlooked by the disregard of their culture by representing teams as nothing more than a mascot. The irrefutable disadvantageous effects on American Indians are outlined throughout the…

This investigation examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. The key sources chosen to support this investigation are a book of compiled historical information from the United States Department of the Interior and an interview of a Native American woman that lived through both the Black Hills Gold Rush and the Great Sioux War. These are relevant because one has access to an extensive database of government…

Goliath-like antagonist. But the reality for most of history is that of tragedy and no heroic ending. This is the case the Lakota of the Pine Ridge Indian Agency fell victim to in the winter of 1890 when approximately 500 soldiers came to stop a ceremony later called the Ghost Dance. The horrifying ending to the once proud nation was a culmination of losing the Black Hills and amount of land allotted for reservation use, the expulsion of the Ghost Dance, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee.…

Compare and contrast racial conflict in the South and the West. Introduction: Racial discrimination, the out of line treatment of a racial gathering in light of partialities, has been an issue in North America much sooner than the United States even existed. The early European homesteaders thought the Native Americans were savage and unseemly, basically in light of the fact that their way of life and method for living contrasted from the customs of the white pilgrims. They quickly looked to…

In the Little Bighorn Battle on June 1876 between the Lakota and Cheyenne people verse the United States. The conflict was the cultural change and clash between the two: on one hand there is the Lakota and Cheyenne were they are buffalo/horse people, and on the other hand there is the United States is industrial/agricultural people. From 1868 the US and Lakota negotiated on the Fort Laramie Treaty; however, that made conflict towards the other tribes (National Park Service Website). This…