Blackfeet

Meriwether Lewis, born August 18, 1774, was an American explorer. He and William Clark, born August 1, 1770, accompanied each other on a dangerous expedition. President Thomas Jefferson appointed Lewis and Clark to explore the territory that was acquired in the “Louisiana Purchase”. He commissioned this the Corps of Discovery Expedition that lasted from 1804 to 1806. As a result of this expedition, Lewis was rewarded with land and awarded the position of governor for a Louisiana territory.…

presumed to have been. An article by TIME magazine said that after Clark’s expedition he helped implement a policy which historians now claim was guilty of being a direct cause of cultural genocide or ethnic cleansing. In Lewis’s journal he claimed the Blackfeet were “a vicious, lawless and rather an abandoned set of wretches.”…

shelter and traded goods with us. The natives were really interested with York because of his color which was strange to us. There was some tribes like the black feet who didn't like us white men and shot at us but no one was injured except some Blackfeet. As I stated earlier or captains were Lewis and Clark who are great men. Clark is an excellent Mapper and is a great people person. Clark served in the Indian wars of 1795 and was a great captain then also. Lewis was the…

10 best places to live in Montana is no other than Cut Bank. Manhattan and Cut Bank, for me, are on the same wavelength of a great place to settle in. What makes Cut Bank unique from other places on this list is the fact that it is located near a Blackfeet Indian reservation, hence, you can have the chance to see and check out the culture of almost 20% of Native Americans living there. Cut Bank may also have the lowest cost of living in Montana and you would surely enjoy the benefit of saving…

with a loss of cultural identity. Linda EagleSpeaker, a member the Blackfeet tribe and Elder in Residence at the Indian Women’s Resource Center, was forced to attend St. Paul’s School, a residential boarding school from age five to eleven in Canada. When recounting her time at the school, she described it as, “We were there to be Christianized. We were there to be changed” . When she went into the school, she entered knowing Blackfeet, with long hair, and not a single bone broken. When she…

‘Religion’ is a volatile word with an almost subjective meaning. The problem with attempting to define ‘Religion’ is that how can a single word be used to cover so many different types of cultures and means of prayer, worship and rituals? It is, however, useful as a word to describe the type of thing we are aiming to examine, without specifying what it really is. There have been many different attempts at defining religion and these come from a range of philosophical and anthropological fields…

responsibilities and acted carelessly, especially when it came to alcohol. Third, his life lacks meaning; he hangs around the ranch and gets drunk a lot. Much like how his father was described. He was not only alienated by himself but culturally. The Blackfeet natives didn’t like to co-exist with the whites and the whites didn't want anything to do with the natives. However, the narrator's grandmother didn't want to associate with the Crow either after what happened in her past.…

American Indians, traded with some and learned about their tribes. I would right details of the encounters, Some were friendly, and we were able to establish diplomatic ties. The friendly tribes had also warned us of the unfriendly tribes, such as the Blackfeet warriors and the Lakota Sioux, of whom relied solely on hostile negotiations. The goal of this expedition was to unite the New territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific especially after the Louisiana purchase. In 1806 we completed…

Lewis and Clark expedition Students Name Institutional affiliation Introduction Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. He took office in 1801 when most people lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean.Peolpe had little knowledge of the Western part of the country. It was only the French traders, fur trappers, Spannish and British explorers. I t was Thomas Jefferson’s dream to send explorers to North America before he became the president. President Thomas…

involved groups is highly employed in learning trade and commerce. Learning the artifacts of these groups are also important in learning more about the economic activities of the involved groups. The other cultural groups include the Acadians, Arawak, Blackfeet, and the Caddo. The economic activities of the Mississippians are closely linked to those of the other Native North…