Georgia Gwinnett College

The Piedmont is a very special region. The piedmont is the second largest region in Georgia, and is located in between the Blue Ridge region and the coastal plain region. The Piedmont is classified by its rolling hills and Georgia red clay. Red clay appears the color red because of the iron oxide in the clay. Native Americans came to Georgia and the Piedmont region ten thousand years ago. The piedmont is the most populated region, for Atlanta, the capital is in this region. This region includes…

If you had been forced away from your family, community, and culture (as Native children were until the mid-1980s) how might you have turned out differently? What would you have missed learning without your personal cultural influences? The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 to permit the elimination of Indian tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. According to our text (McNamara & Burns) the government then held the belief that…

The Dakota pipeline is a 1,172 mile pipeline designed to carry over 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, and will cost around $3.8 billion to construct. The pipeline is full of ethical issues because the tribes were not properly consulted before construction began, and the pipeline passes within half a mile of the reservation, through burial sites and sacred landmarks, and crosses the Missouri River and Lake Oahe, which provide the tribe’s drinking water.It is due…

Hire an Automobile And Get Released Of Tension Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) functions as a centre for Continental Airlines and services almost 700 coming paths daily from over 14-2 locations. The airport terminal is readily situated near the crossroads of both I71, I480, and I 80 along with railroad service straight from the international airport into the downtown area Cleveland. To learn more, call 216.265.6030. At the moment, the business has a huge quantity of vehicles…

Indian Removal In 1976 Mr. Marvin J. Sonosky, Mr. Reid Chambers, and Mr. Harry Sachse established a Law Firm for the sole purpose of representing American Indian tribes. Sadly Mr. Sonosky passed away in July of 1997 due to heart failure. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Sachse continued his work and added partners to the Firm and continued to help and support American Indian Tribes (Reid Chambers & SCSE&P, LLP.) Growing up surrounded by people who have dedicated their lives to making other people’s…

“In the beginning of the 1830’s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. This land was passed down generations to generations.” (History) The idea of the Indians owning so much land, angered white settlers very much. President Andrew Jackson, had to do something about this issue. To the white settlers, Indians were uncivilized, unfamiliar, and alien people. They hated the fact of the Indians occupying so…

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple explores feminism in a low class environment, the importance of religion, and power structures within race and sex. Although this novel was published in 1982, and set in the time periods 1910-1940, the themes are still relevant to today. During these years, Celie becomes obsessed over Shug. Even though all Celie has is a picture, she lives off of that and hearing stories. Soon Shug comes to Albert’s place due to a sickness and Celie is left in charge to take care…

1830’s, it had only been a few decades since America had been founded.The white settlers who were new to the land began to explore it with intent to claim it as their own territory. Tens of thousands of Native Americans lived on millions of acres of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida land that their ancestors have lived on for many generations. The land that they lived on were valuable, containing an abundance of minerals for growing cotton.The immigrants from Europe only…

John Ross was the chief and led the Cherokee Nations through all of their tough times. The general council was also responsible for making any agreements and negotiations with the United State’s government. The delegation, a total of twenty people, with officials such as Ross, McCoy Gunter, and William Rogers would go to meetings and make decisions with the United States. Although the leaders of the nation respected each other, they had different opinions among the Treaty of New Echota. Some…

The Cherokees are a Native American Tribe from the Southeastern United States, they lived in The Great Smoky Mountains which stretched through North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. In the first paragraph, I will talk about the Cherokee villages. In Cherokee villages, there was an wall to keep intruders out of their territory. There were over 100 villages in the Cherokee nation, they were all connected by the great cherokee path. Cherokee villages had several large cornfields…