Choctaw

Throughout history, it is a known fact that Native Americans were the first inhabitants of this land we call, America. Since, 1492 when Christopher Columbus who said, that the Americas were the lands of the Indies, called them Indians instead. The Native Americans were seen as “children”, savages, etc by the “white men” (British, French,etc). From the late 16th to the late 19th century, the population of Native Americans decreased from several causes such as: Being exposed to new diseases from…

Hot Springs National Park is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was established March 4, 1921. It is the smallest of all the national parks and is the only one that is almost inside a whole city. Hot Springs National Park has attracted many tourist and is a great place to go visit. It is extremely pretty and has many interesting places to go to. Its most famous attraction is the bathhouses, water. That's what first attracted people, and they have been coming here ever since to use the soothing…

a) In 1824 there were four candidates running for president John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson. All these candidates were republicans i) Andrew Jackson was more appealing to the people but he lost most of the votes from the electoral college ii) Since there was a tie of votes, the 12th amendment stated that the House of house of representatives would need to vote and decided who would be the president b) Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams become…

Louis Owens, in his account “Motion of Fire and Form: Autobiographical Reflections” and Wendy Rose, in her collection Bone Dance, create experience-and-memory-based narratives that help them to shape their identities. They are able to recreate events to which some of the pieces may be missing, allowing them to better understand their history and their place in a world of categories. They learn from their families how to fit in and interact with the environment around them when they do not fit…

Andrew Jackson played an important role in the age of economic nationalism and growing political sectionalism. Economic nationalism is a circumstance in which a country attempts to preserve its personal economy by minimizing the amount of imports and investments from other countries. Political sectionalism is the support of a particular part of the United States of specific political interests. Economic nationalism and political sectionalism can be seen in Andrew Jackson’s actions in the South…

Members of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole) participated in enslaving Africans, and some Africans went with them to the West on the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was the forced migration of Native Americans from their ancestral lands in Southeastern U.…

Native Americans and Americans always have had a very tumultuous relationship. Starting from the first discovery and then colonization of the Native American's land; Americans pillaged and plundered villages, which purposefully depleted the Native American population. The tumultuous relationship boiled over when Andrew Jackson, known for his hatred of the British and Native Americans, signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 (Tindall and Shi 342). The Indian Removal Act authorized Jackson to give…

M1 EQ: What is deculturalization? How does it function historically and in the present? When a student learns about America’s history, they learn about how America came to be and the struggles our country faced. I learned about some struggles but throughout this module, my eyes were opened to the unsettling way America came to be. When the settlers came to America, they were faced with a level of uncertainty but felt that it was their duty to bring civilization to the Western world (Spring,…

Picou Plantation, which farmed over 100 acres of sugar cane. Gray and white tombs rest on the slopes, thought to be a sacred mound possibly used for ceremonies, high ground, or burials dating back to 1000 AD. Members of the local Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe believe ancestors lived on the mound and a chief was buried under a large oak tree on the north side. On the mound’s front side, several letters on an old metal sign are chipped away, but the blue words clearly spell out "E. Picou…

Racial prejudices have been a part of European culture since the Roman Empire. It seems that no matter the era or location, the lighter skinned race has always take precedence over the darker skinned race. Native Americans, or the red skins as they were once called, were no exception to this racism. They were taken as slaves, tortured, and treated as if they were inhuman. This prejudge raged on for centuries in several forms. Sometimes the tribes would have their land stripped from them;…