In My Tribe

He describes his first experience at the school. “They stared at me, the Indian boy with the black eye and swollen nose, my going-away gifts from Rowdy. Those white kids couldn't believe their eyes. They stared at me like I was Bigfoot or a UFO. What was I doing at Reardan, whose mascot was an Indian, thereby making me the only other Indian in town?” (Alexie 56). From here…

From the beginning of my years as a child I was taught and raised catholic. My parents viewed religion as an outlet to consider when making decisions in life. Going to church every Sunday became the new routine that I just had to get accustomed to. However when the missionaries came to the tribe in the novel Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe, this shows how the introduction of a new religion to an uncivilized tribe shows the extent to which people forced their beliefs onto others.…

Lumbees Deserve Recognition! “My father and mother were Indians, my father’s father and mother’s mother were Indians and their parents and grandparents were Indians. What else could I be?” once said by an Indian named Adolph L. Dial from the Lumbee Tribe. The Federal Government questions members of the 55,000 plus Lumbee Tribe as to their true “Indianness.” Though recognized as a Native American Tribe by the State of North Carolina since 1885, the Tribe is fighting and has been fighting for over…

Powhatan Tribe Research Paper I am doing my report over the Powhatan Tribe. The Powhatan Tribe is a group of Algonquian-speaking-people that were native to the New World, specifically, the Northeast Woodland Region, before the English had colonized it. The Powhatan Tribe chose to live in this region because the rivers there helped them stay clean, transport places, and irrigate crops easier. The Powhatan Tribe established in 1580 by Wahunsonacock, who created the Powhatan Confederacy that…

The Blackfoot Tribe Who was the Blackfoot tribe? The Blackfoot Tribe was a tribe that signed its first peace treaty in 1855. They are located mostly in Montana,Idaho, and the Great Plains. They are called the blackfoots because they wore black leather shoes called moccasins. They lived in teepees. A teepee is a small tent that is supported by wooden poles and the covered with animal skin. The blackfoot tribe was a big migrating tribe. They were a big and peaceful tribe. As children in the…

For this week’s forum I decided to research the Shawnee and Chickasaw American Indian Tribes due to the fact these particular tribes populated both areas the paternal and maternal sides of my family originated from. The Shawnee tribe mainly populated Northeast areas such as Ohio and Indiana. Their culture was based on a village lifestyle where farming and hunting were done by the men of the tribe while the women focused on household chores and took to pottery. The homes were round in shape and…

be reminded of the great Apache warrior, but did you know that he was credited with the notion of being the last American Indian to hand over his gun to the white man? The times were very different then and Native Americans, especially the Apache tribe that Geronimo belonged to, were not happy with their land being taken from them. Geronimo was a visionary leader and wanted his vision to come true, however he was also an unethical leader and did not take into account how this vision was going to…

Years have passed since the murder of Bird’s family by the haudenosaunee tribe, and yet they are never far from his mind. Resistance is shown by Bird when captures a young haudenosaunee girl to adopt as his own daughter to raise, since his own were brutally murdered by the young girls tribe. Bird tends to show power by the saying an eye for an eye. He brings out a positive outcome with his resistance to lacking power, he did this by preparing young warriors for battle, assuring them they know…

animal domestication tribe territory. In Allison’s description, I saw that she joined the farming tribe in part because she felt eating grown produce was better than eating meat. The second connection I explored was that both of the character’s I had assigned (Allison and Xander) were from the fertility tribe. I felt it would create some interesting tension if Xander identified Allison as a fertility tribe member and tried to convince her to let him see his daughter. During my first draft, I…

hello in my tribe. My tribe, the Seminoles, speaks Miccosukee and seminole creek. And if you want to say hello in creek you would say istonko. I am a ten year old boy named Holata, That means alligator. I live in Southern Florida. The seminole formed in the 1700’s. This is where other tribes migrated to Florida. They joined the tribe for better protection. The tribes that joined together for protection were the creeks,miccosukees,hitchitis, and the oconees. This made the Seminole tribe…