Georgia O'Keeffe

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…

The Native Americans faced many obstacles throughout their transition to the Pine Ridge Reservation. Some of which were caused by the whites, others by their own people. These challenges caused multiple deaths of both the Native Americans and the Whites. One of the largest causes of death for the Native Americans was epidemics and diseases brought by the Whites. The Natives have grown immune or nearly immune to the conditions and diseases that have been a part of their culture in the past. When…

THE PUEBLO REVOLT In 1680 the people best-referred to assemble as "Pueblos" opposed their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest. Spaniards had commanded them, their lives, their territory, and their souls for eight decades. The Spanish had set up and kept up their control with dread, beginning with Juan de Oñate's attack in 1598. At the point when the people of Acoma opposed, Oñate requested that one leg be cut from each man more than fifteen and consequently the rest of the populace be in…

After going through this week’s readings and video presentations, I did not come across anything specific that excited me. Although, I did read about some instances that made me feel ashamed, but I do understand that if these things had not occurred, America may not be the great nation that it is today. The Indian Removal Act to remove and relocate tens of thousands of Native Americans sounded reasonable on paper, but resulted in native retaliation and the deaths of many people. I feel as if…

make decisions that the first colonists had to decide for themselves- without knowing what kind of consequences entailed. In the colonization game, Emily Amend and I had six thriving settlements-Jamestown, Puddin, Wifey, Dogtown, bcygcfgxcgxc, and Georgia, but we encountered many obstacles within…