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In the "Younger sky that has wept tears of compassion" by Chief Seattle, Seattle uses comparison to Red Indian and white people. At that time, white people came to the land once was the land of Indians people and now called America. White came and took over the land, where the Indians people have lived their memories. Seattle wrote this story that untold to people in 1854. The purpose of writing this story was to let people know how white people treated red indians and their land. After white…

William Blackmore and Sitting Bull both had different viewpoints over who should have ownership of the western lands. William Blackmore believed that the Native Americans would soon die out, leaving room for a “higher and more civilized race.” He used derogatory terms such as “savages” or “Red Men” to belittle the Native Americans. Blackmore made it clear that even though the Native Americans had a population of just 300,000, their hunting practices and free roaming lifestyle took up valuable…

Competitor Analysis Competitor Profile Southwest Airlines has three very close competitors which are Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines. Delta Airlines is an American airlines with its headquarter in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. Delta's brand campaign, “Keep Climbing” is a declaration of the company's commitment to making flying better and a celebration of where…

Historical topic: ___Treaty of Fort Laramie________ I. Introduction Thesis statement: The Treaty of Fort Laramie is important because of how it led to the loss of a lot of Native American culture. It was part of their culture to live close together, but the treaty separated them by giving the Sioux too much land on each reservation. Not only that, but because the U.S. Government did not keep some of its promises to the Native Americans, it was not even worth the tradeoff. For…

A significant and catastrophic event in history was the Indian Removal Act of 1830, initiated and enacted by Andrew Jackson. Standing in the way of white settlers and their path to greater prosperity were the sizable number of Native Americans. The so-called Five Civilized Tribes, which included 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…

After demanding both political and military action on removing native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829 President Andrew Jackson sign this into law on May 28, 1830 although it only gave the right to negotiate for their withdrawal from areas to the east of the Mississippi River and that relocation was supposed to be voluntary, all of the pressure was there to make this all but inevitable. All the tribal leaders agreed after Jackson's landslide victory in 1832. It is…

the Ross party. Those under the treaty party complied with the government to relocate and the Ross party wanted to come to an agreement because they refused to give up their land. The matter went to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), the Marshall court ruled that the Cherokees were not a sovereign and independent nation, and therefore refused to hear the case. The treaty party secretly signed a treaty to give up their land. The Ross party was irate because the treaty…

Yakama Indian War Causes “Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal, or one of them is superior”-unknown On June 9,1855, the Yakama, Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla tribes were forced to cede in excess of 6,000,000 acres to the United States Government, partly as punishment for the killing by a group of young Cayuse of methodist missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and others. On November 29, 1847,…

Comanche Indians The Comanches, great horsemen who dominated the southern plains, played a major role in the history of central America. Comanches were originally a part of the northern shoshone. The Shoshone and Comanche even have identical languages. Comanches have moved multiple times like the move away from shoshone tribe or moving due to indian conflict. Comanches culture changed once they obtained horses from trading goods which helped them gain territory. While the Comanche believed they…

In six hundred years only traces of three languages in the world as we know it will remain. Everyone will be forced to learn a new, alien language, and be punished for using any language of the old world. Individual cultures will be lost, and generalized, as the world’s languages die out one by one. This is what happened to most Native languages through colonization and westward expansion. Three native languages are “expected to survive into the middle of this Century”3. Immersion schools are a…