Georgia Gwinnett College

In life, there is that tendency to ruin the good things one has going on in their lives when they become more successful than they already are. People become inundated with the joy and achievement that they begin to act irresponsibly. A great thing such as winning the lottery can bring cheerfulness and satisfaction into one’s life but, on the other hand, this great thing can also become a complete nightmare. In most cases, when one goes from being extremely poor to being exceptionally rich, it…

Native Americans have continuously been removed from their land to adhere to the business interests of gold miners, the casino industry, and oil miners. For the purposes of this assignment, I viewed the documentary "Super Chief" as well as "Native American Boomtown". By viewing these documentaries, I will answer the question of what happened to the money that was made, and how it was spent on the reservation. Both documentaries talked about money fraud in the government, and how the citizens of…

tears was were they moved all of the indians on this trail. The main indians that they talked about moving on this trail is the chippewa indian they were moved from georgia to west of the mississippi during the trip many of the old people died because it was to hard for them to keep warm on the cold trail. When they were moved out of georgia they were transported by the military. Most indians tried to go to court to not get there and taking away from their land. Children were killed on the trip…

Tracks is set during the historical period when the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. It is essentially a story about land and the lives of the people connected to it. As a result the earth is element associated with this novel. The objectives of the Dawes Act were to revive the Native Americans out of poverty, savage way of life and to stimulate them into unite the mainstream American society. It. allowed tracts of land that had been communal reservation property to be allotted to individual tribal…

The trail of tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American Nations.The nations that were relocated were Cherokee, Muscogee,seminole,Chicksaw, and Choctaw. The reason that they were relocated was because president Thomas Jefferson believed Indians should’ve been civilized. Jefferson also wanted to convert them to Christianity. In 1791 a series of treaties between the United States and the Cherokees, the treaties gave recognition to the Cherokees as a nation with their own laws and…

Unlike many of the Civil War governors who were elected in and out of office while the war was in full swing, Joseph Emerson Brown served as the governor of Georgia throughout the entire Civil War era, from 1857 to 1865. His influence, thus, is broad, ranging from the conflicts leading up to the war and succession of the southern states to the defeat of the Confederacy. His voice, which continuously advocated for states’ rights, called first for the succession of the southern states out of the…

The Native American population has suffered many tragedies at the hands of the United States government from their first interactions through the mid-twentieth century. Government policies concerning American Indians worked in conjunction with the prejudices harbored by the majority of the white population in the United States to suppress Native American liberties and strip them of their cultural identity. These policies gave little to no regard for Native American customs, personal expression,…

The document that I selected to analyze is document 17-4. Document 17-4 was written by In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, or Chief Joseph, and was written in 1879. The reason as to why the document was written, was because Chief Joseph was explaining himself to the Americans all the things that have been done to him and his tribe both in past and in present in great detail and explaining to the Americans that he and his tribe members are the victims. A historical theme that is related to this document is…

“The first inhabitants of Paraguay were the Indian speaking Guarani (Infoplease). This is the most well- known language of Paraguay other than Spanish. In 1811, Paraguay revolted against Spanish rule and then became a nominal republic under two consuls. The country had three different dictators during their first sixty years as an independent country. Francisco Lopez started war between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina within the years of 1865 through 1870. Not until the year 1912 did the country…

The Ohio River begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, extending roughly 900 miles downstream and ending in Cairo, Illinois. It is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River on the basis of volume. Throughout time, the Ohio River has been called many names by different civilizations. The Shawnees called it Spaylaywitheepi, the Miami tribes- Causisseppione, the Delawares- Kitonosipi, the Spanish- Dono and Albacha, and the French-…