Choctaw

Annika Swenson Period 6 11/16/17 Research Paper Natives had lived on American soil for hundreds of years before Europeans had inhabited it(Document E); however, their birthright did not protect them from the wishes of their American neighbors. Through the Indian Removal Act, Natives were forced to take part in a deadly journey which came to be known as the Trail of Tears. The results of the Trail were catastrophic to Natives, Cherokees alone lost 4000 people on the Trail(Document D); overall,…

not be sorry when the natives were pushed out of their homes to be relocated.During the forced migration on the on the Trail of Tears Choctaw the Choctaw tribe lost 2,500 members of the tribe. The cause was: Harsh weather, Starvation, and Disease. The Cherokee tribe also lost 4,000 tribe members from the same causes, but on a positive note, nearly 15,000 choctaws made it to Oklahoma. Overall, the Trail of Tears was a terrible time, but they overcame deaths, losses, and tears. Now, think…

the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles occupied the land, especially in the South, which threatened the expansion of the land-hungry Americans. President Andrew Jackson promised to resolve this issue with the Indian Removal Act, by the volunteer exchange of Indian lands and their removal east of the Mississippi for land west of the Mississippi (Boyer et al, 255). The result of his policy was anything but humane and devastating…

In other word, Jackson’s message was favorable towards the Native Americans. He addressed and recognized the calamities and devastations brought on by early settlers and later the American people. Jackson believed that by moving the Native Americans out of the southeastern United States and onto the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) that he would be aiding the Natives in a manner that would assist in the rehabilitation of their culture and society, which has been under continuous attack…

farming. Jackson had decided to remove all Native Americans from their land. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, ordering all Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River. The Five Civilized Tribes consists of The Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw. Jackson had pressured each…

because these areas assert knowledge in different ways. To begin, the most noticeable area of knowledge that is centered on the telling of stories is history. It could be argued that knowledge in the field of history is predominantly stories. The Choctaw tribe tells a story of creation in which two brothers, Chata and Chicksah led the original people from a land in the far west, guided by a magical…

Cultural Genocide: Destroying a Way of Life In her novel, Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan depicts violence against Osage people during the oil boom in Oklahoma in the early 1920s. Greed of the EuroAmerican system creates a crisis in cultural identity for those Osage who have tried to live among the white people. Ways in which the white characters corrupt the world of the Osage at that time include degrading their native beliefs in the things they hold sacred, the damaging relationships among…

the “Choctaw language befuddled Germans.” Almost ten years before WWII, Nazis attempted to befriend Native Americans. Their goals were to learn the various languages and to deter American Indians from enlisting. By understanding more dialects, the Axis Powers would have had a chance at cracking new codes. However, the German Nazis’ attempts failed— encouraging more men and women to provide help in the war effort. During WWII, the United States used a similar tactic. Instead of reusing Choctaw…

Who would have known that the language of Native Americans, created hundreds of years before the founding of our nation, would prove to be one of America's greatest secret weapons? The Japanese cracked every code that the Army and Navy came up with, but not the Navajo code. Navajo is a spoken language handed down orally from generation to generation. The Code Talkers created a system of native words to represent characters of the English alphabet so that they could spell out English words that…

Growing up in a small town in Oklahoma, I feel extremely blessed. I am fortunate to come from a family who does pretty well and provides for me. I say that humbly, because I know just how hard some people’s lives are. There are many people in my town that are poverty-stricken and barely have anything. They struggle to find food and many of these people live on the streets. It was always so disheartening seeing homeless people on the streets when I was growing up. I knew I needed to do something,…