Choctaw

Lacrosse Should Be For Everyone Growing up I learned that not many people in Merced County actually know what lacrosse is. Lacrosse is a field sport, just like soccer; there are goal areas on both sides of the field. Players have chest pads a helmet like football and a lacrosse stick. Most people do not know that today 's Lacrosse was influenced by a game that the Native Americans played. Lacrosse is a popular sport in other countries and in private schools, does not cost as much as football or…

area where they could govern themselves in peace, but some saw the truth-- an excuse for a brutal and inhumane course of action, and these people protested loudly against the removal. Sadly, their protests did not save the Indians from removal. The Choctaws were the first to sign a removal treaty. Some chose to stay in Mississippi under the terms of the Removal Act, yet most still ended up selling their land and moving west because of mistreatment from the whites. The Seminoles refused to leave,…

memorials as a form of demanding justice for the Native Americans. Jackson started the process of removal, “By personally negotiating immigration agreements with the southern tribes…” When the Natives decided to move, they set way to the West. The Choctaws were only accompanied by two missionaries. Natives traveled during the winter, which had disastrous outcomes. Indians traveling during the winter endured the coldest winter ever recorded in the country. “those who emigrated during the summer…

Throughout history, many wars have been recognized such as the Civil War, French and Indian War, and the Cold War. One war has been considered the forgotten or unnecessary war because it was a war nobody wanted; this war was called the War of 1812, also known as the Second War of Independence. Two weeks after the War of 1812 ended with the signing of a peace treaty called the Treaty of Ghent, the Battle of New Orleans began. The Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814, and restored the…

HIE301 The Purpose for Conflicts Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Short Essay Work presented to Dr. Daigle-Hau by NCdt Labrecque, M February 12, 2016 Royal Military College of Canada Discuss the military alliance between European powers and Aboriginals in Canada. Was one side “using” the other or not? This paper will argue that the military alliance between European powers and Aboriginals in Canada was a diplomatic strategy to take advantage of one another’s strengths. In order to…

borders. Although a few of the tribes forced to move went peacefully, majority resisted the relocation policy, but were forcibly removed by the United States Government. Five of the most major tribes that were affected were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and the Seminole. This occurred during the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839. The indians were not allowed time to gather their things, and during this transportation of the Indians to western lands, over 4,000 Cherokee people had died…

Removal Act which authorized him to give unsettled land to the Native Americans in exchange for their lands in existing state borders. These unsettled lands were called Indian Reservations where Indian tribes such as the Cherokee, Seminoles, Creek, and Choctaw had to take long treacherous routes to reach. (Doc. D) The afflux of Americans onto Indian land was also advocated by Lewis Cass. He justified his reasoning by stating, “Existing for two centuries in contact with a civilized people, have…

Research Question #2 Migration Stories: Mapping Cultural Survival Across Stolen Terrains Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo author, emphasizes the importance of place in indigenous storytelling--identity is “intimately linked with the surrounding terrain,” whether it be a specific geographical feature or the exact location where a story took place (43). When tribes migrated to find subsistence, exchange goods with other native peoples, or complete a holy journey, their stories often served as…

“Andrew Jackson: One of the Greatest Presidents” In the life of Andrew Jackson, much debate has caught the surface of whether his leadership skills were the best. Even since the beginning of Jackson’s life, he had to struggle. From growing up in a “Carolinian poverty to rising into a kind of frontier aristocracy” (Dougherty 1), showed the complexity of the type of man he was. As always, he made many successful political changes in the United States, such as helping in the creation of the…

The European’s drastically impacted the Native Americans upon their arrival to the New World. Researchers from Germany and the United States have stated, “European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population.”1 The three main groups that navigated their way to North America were the Spanish, English colonists, and the French. Despite the different groups of new comers, a very small number of them viewed the Native American people as their equals on any scale of…