Geronimo

I pray that this letter finds you and the family in the best of health and spirit. I have traveled to the Americas, to reconnect with our distant family acquaintance and relative Nicolas de Ovando. Nicolas has become the Governor of Hispaniola and I’m proud of him. I have been helping Nicolas with establishing a colony for a large number of years. I enjoy what I do here and it is definitely better than law school. I took part in a very big expedition and we captured many Indians who became…

we are content to be as we are” (Burns, 1996, section: The Outcome of Our Earnest Endeavors). They were told that there was nothing to argue about and that they had not choice that the law was written. Native American Sioux chief Sitting Bull and Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache would put up a big fight, but would eventually be overran by the white settlers. When the land was finally distributed 30,000 acres were given out to the whites and only 1,500 acres to the Native Americans. All that was…

Since the Natives have arrived in the United States, government officials have not shown any sensitivity in the fight for Native American values and land. As we see in the court case between Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association and North Dakota Access Pipeline, government officials have been obstinate when it comes it giving Native Americans the right to land and religion. Native Americans perchance could have been the first to colonize in America: therefore, why do these…

Drunk, stupid, lazy, these are just a few of the words that popular culture has used to describe the Native American Indians. The so called “Spaghetti Westerns” were constantly painting these “savages” as less than human. Even John Wayne, who perhaps had more respect than most for Native Americans, still portrayed them in a negative connotation. One of Wayne’s most popular movies, McClintock, has the American Indians stating a party was fun but “no whiskey, so we go home.” This movie…

Michael A. Weaver 24 February 2017 Ms.Banales English 1 The Ransom of Red Chief The story of red chief includes how a helpless boy was kidnapped by two men by the names of Bill Driscol and Sam. They both wanted nothing but money but they soon realized money was nothing if your to insane to use it. Bill and Sam had a joint amount of money which had only 600$ they needed 2,000$ more to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in western Illinois. In order for them to pull off the scheme they had to…

Reading is like a desk with a hidden compartment. There are nuggets in the unsecured drawers, but the truly valuable items will be hidden, unbeknownst to all but the most careful of searchers. The same is true with a book. One is able to glean information like plot events and facts, but nothing of substance. The true meat must be sought through careful reflection and introspection. I began learning to read when I was 3. After hearing good reviews, my parents purchased the Hooked on Phonics…

We studied and talked about everything under the sun together from Christianity, The Nation of Islam, The Five Percent Nation, and The Nation of Yahweh to everyday current events. Jamal considered himself to be a political prisoner much like Geronimo Pratt, Stokely Carmichael or a Shaka Sankolfa. He claimed that he was innocent and was being held as a pawn in the system, especially in the County of…

In awe, Cortés saw the Mayan pyramids for the first time. Cortés went to talk to the people of the island and he became lucky once he heard of a man on the next-door island who was shipwrecked near Jamaica in 1511. Geronimo de Aguilar would become Cortés’ personal translator who could communicate with the Mayan people. However, as he continued his journey down the tip of Yucatan, he stopped at Potonchan. The natives greeted him with food and a gold mask. With giving…

It was December of 1942, hundreds of men stormed a beach and over took it with little casualties. With the smell of blood and gunpowder in the air, a Higgins boat pulls drives up from the Atlantic Ocean and parks in just feet of water. The door slams down into the water and LT Gen George S. Patton steps out and on to the beach of Morocco, North Africa and the cheers of his men ring out. Visionary Leader When I think of the definition of a visionary leader, General Patton immediately comes to…

In the case of Medgar Evers, he was a prominent NAACP field secretary, called for a new investigation into the Emmett Till Case; and was tragically killed in his driveway. The death of Evers was quickly responded to by FBI Agents, after a detailed investigation found that Byron De La Beckwith, a white segregationists and founding member of the Mississippi White Council, guilty of killing Evers. However, instead of filing for federal charges, the FBI handed the case over to state court in Jackson…