Indian reservation

acres of land but kept over 8 million acres for a reservation in a treaty. Non-Native miners and other trespassers ignored the restrictions and moved in anyway, triggering a crisis among the Natives over the issue of loyalty toward whites. This violated their treaty and led to a more hostile atmosphere. Following gold strikes in 1860, whites sought the Wallowa and Grande Ronde Valleys, which encompassed more than three-fourths of the reservation. The Nez Percé exemplifies how contact with the…

also a series of Indian affairs going on that were known as the Indian Wars. The Plains Indians were settled out West were the United States kicked the Indians to, but now the United States is coming back wanting more land to put the railroads and telegraphs. The lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century was significantly different and affected by the technological developments and the government’s actions. The…

Arapaho Indians The Arapaho Indians were established in the 1850s.Since 1878, the Eastern Shoshone, people lived there.The Arapaho Indians lived in the Eastern Shoshone.The Eastern Shoshone was by the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.The Arapaho Tribe spoke in the Algonquian language. The Arapaho Indians ate every animal they saw to stay alive.The weapons they used were bows,arrows,stone ball clubs,jaw bone…

The Comanches were a very diverse Indian tribe in their culture, war tactics, and the Comanches reservations. The Comanches were a fierce warrior tribe. They were in states such as Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,and Arizona. They were exceptional horsemen. The Comanches were excellent at hunting and gathering. The Comanches were known as the “Lords of the Plains. The Comanches had a very unique culture. The Comanches were originally part of the Eastern Shoshone, who lived by Platte River…

Indian conflict played a significant role in the founding of the United States, starting almost immediately after Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas. When the Spanish settlers arrived in the “new land”, they brought crops, livestock, and advancements in weaponry from their homes; this increased violence between tribes and brought new diseases/invasive species to the Native’s land. Along with bringing physical representation of Europe, the Spanish brought religion, offering…

you write because you have something to say”. Among many of the famous Modernist writers, Ernest Hemingway played a significant part in the influential movement. In Indian Camp, Hemingway uses his modernist techniques to construct a simple work of literature…

The Navajo The Navajo is a group of semi-nomadic Native American Indian people. They live in the south-west nation of America that includes New Mexico, California, and Arizona. Most of them lived in hogans. Hogans are cone-shaped buildings covered in clay. Due to their nomadic life, the Navajo wore clothes made from deer hides. In their later life, the deer hides were replaced with knitted wool. They are regarded as fierce warriors who often raided Spanish settlers along the Rio Grande River of…

which is now Montana, near the Bighorn Mountains.The Crow had many previous names, Great leaders, and traditions. The Crow also had many defense tactics, own religion and they still have their land today, more than 8000 people live on the crow reservation. Their land used to offer plentiful resources and still does. The land on which they lived consisted of grass covered prairies, rivers, streams, and mountains. The climate was mainly hot during summer with cold winters. The ancestors of the…

The Mandan’s of the Great Plains Region The Mandan Indians were a tribe living among other Indians within the Great Plains region. The Great Plains is basically the central area in North American. The Great Plains region consists of various states like Iowa, the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Missouri. It ranges from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The general region of the Great Plains has a geography typically described as “miles and miles of flat land and gently…

The pawn shop is one of the central images in the poem "Evolution". This pawn shop was set up by Buffalo Bill and he had put it right on the border of a Native American reservation. It happened to be right across the street from a liquor store. This would make the Native Americans come inside the pawn shop, after the Native Americans would sell or pawn everything, they had just to go across the street and buy liquor. Buffalo Bill had used this location to prove that the Native Americans were…