Cherokee

I am going to talk about Sitting Bull. Born in 1831 in South Dakota and died on December the 15th of the year 1890 in Standing Rock Indian Reserve, sitting bull is a tribal chief and physician of the Lakotas Hunkpapas (Sioux). Sitting Bull gained the title of "holy man sioux", or "wičháša wakȟáŋ". His holy man's responsibilities were mainly the understanding of complex religious rituals and the management of Sioux's belief . He is one of the leading Native Americans resisting the US…

Indigenous people are being oppressed by the people of the dominant society for centuries. In the US, Native American people are oppressed by the white European explorers for hundreds of years. They are oppressed, marginalized their voice, killed their leaders, activist, and bright sons and daughters. People are in power seems to be watching each and every move of the Native Americans, and if the power feels threatened by anybody they are getting killed or brutally murdered. It feels like the…

Chief Joseph Chief Joseph(hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) was born march 3,1840 in Wallowa valley,Oregon. Chief Joseph was a Nez Perce Indian chief who faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon and led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada . Chief Joseph,known by his people as (hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) (thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his tribe into reservations.The nez perce were a peaceful…

Born during a time of uncertainty and rebellion, Andrew Jackson rose up amongst the chaos and first became a war hero, and later, the seventh president of the United States. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15th, 1767, to Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson in the Waxhaws region. Although the exact location of the Waxhaws region is unknown due to the lack of the border being surveyed, it is believed that it was somewhere along the border of North and South Carolina. Unfortunately, Jackson’s father died…

The Shawnee Indian tribe originated in the Tennessee region. They migrated to many other parts of America including Pennsylvania. They adopted lifestyles that were best suited for the regions that they lived in. Many of the Shawnee tribes lived in Wigwams which was a temporary shelter that are small cone-shaped houses made of wooden frames with arched roofs. Some wigwams were covered with buffalo hides if they were available in the area. The Shawnee tribes in Pennsylvania ate fish and game…

Andrew Jackson was a tyrant! Andrew Jackson ran for president twice, before becoming president in 1932.the cause of Jackson losing was due to the electoral college’s votes outweighing the votes of the people; this allowed Andrew Jackson to act like a democrat stating that it was safer for the people's votes to count more than those of the electoral college. Andrew Jackson was a tyrant because he enforced and supported segregation, blatantly disregarded a ruling from the judicial branch, and…

Into the Circle provides insight into the origins of Oklahoma pow-wows, or Native American gatherings. According to Abe Conklin of the Ponca and Osage tribes, the pow-wows of Oklahoma began in 1877 after the United States army forced the Ponca people from the northern plains of Nebraska into Indian territory in Oklahoma. The conditions associated with this great move were brutal and a number of the Ponca people perished. Despite these tragic events, the spirit of the Ponca people remained…

Land is so important that it causes this ongoing battle with the natives and government. The government sees these land as a way to have business and make it more industrialize. Also, these land have resources that can be useful for the state government. The government did many thing such as removal policy that indicate that Natives have too much land and need the land to develop. So there solution was to remove the Natives from their actual land. The government plans believed that it was a…

America is full of historical events and major battles that marked our nation either positive or negative. As it is known all stories have more than one version and the Battle of Little Bighorn is no exception. For instance, many historians had taken the time to analyze and study the events and actions that lead to the battle and what was the aftermath of it. With this in mind, many historians can conclude that it was “the most successful action fought by the American Indians against the United…

Black Hawk War In the early 1800’s Americans got into many battles with Native Americans over land. When the Americans first arrived they killed Native Americans and burned down their village, Native Americans refused to give their land away without a fight. In 1804 Americans made a treaty with the Native Americans to give the settlers all of the land east of the Mississippi River, in exchange for over two million dollars. In 1808 the Americans built a fort on Native American land, in…