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    The start and establishment of the city of Maplewood, Minnesota goes back nearly 150 years. Before the settlers appeared, the Dakota Indians mainly occupied the land in Maplewood. The topography was a combination of small forest and open prairie, with several pockets of wetlands and lakes scattered about. In 1850, a small group of families traveled away from St. Paul to find a new place to live. The names of these families were the Bells, Caseys, Conlins, and Vincents. They eventually found an…

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    Indian Removal Unfair

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    they were moved to there new land the U.S. decided that it would be smaller and more confined. The supreme court ruled itself in reverse saying that georgia didn't have ruling over the indians and they were only allowed to be ruled by the U.S. The cherokee took the case of there land to court in order to keep their…

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    Nanapush's Tracks Summary

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    Tracks is set during the historical period when the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. It is essentially a story about land and the lives of the people connected to it. As a result the earth is element associated with this novel. The objectives of the Dawes Act were to revive the Native Americans out of poverty, savage way of life and to stimulate them into unite the mainstream American society. It. allowed tracts of land that had been communal reservation property to be allotted to individual tribal…

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    The United States can make up for the injustices it inflicted on Native Americans by returning the land they took from them. The Government offered the Sioux money in return for their stolen land, but the Sioux did not accept. They denied the money because Their land is like a relative to them. How would you feel if the government took some of your relatives and offered money for them? The Sioux deserve to have their land back. The United States broke all their treaties with the Sioux…

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    Cherokee Trail Of Tears

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    The trail of tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American Nations.The nations that were relocated were Cherokee, Muscogee,seminole,Chicksaw, and Choctaw. The reason that they were relocated was because president Thomas Jefferson believed Indians should’ve been civilized. Jefferson also wanted to convert them to Christianity. In 1791 a series of treaties between the United States and the Cherokees, the treaties gave recognition to the Cherokees as a nation with their own laws and…

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    Achumawi Tribe

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    The Achumawi was a group of Indians located in the northeast corner of California. It was estimated in 1770 that there were 3,000 Achumawi but the estimate included the Atsugewi who happen to be great friends with Achumawi but are a different tribe entirely. Later on, in the 1910 Census, there is only about 1,000 Achumawi. Achumawi means River people. They were also called Pit River People because of their hunting habits of digging pits to trap deer. The Achumawi spoke the Palaihnihan Language…

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    Hermosa Culture

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    One unique thing about the Hermosa culture is its population. Hermosa people have a high fertility rate which accounts for the population explosion witnessed in the past thousands of years. It is located in the southern coastal part of Seminole. The capital of Hermosa is Bella. There are three main ethnic groups: Pride, Aries, and Sikes. The South Western part of Seminole is home to most Pride, and they are among the group of Hermosa where culture is still pretty much preserved. They are well…

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    The Native American population has suffered many tragedies at the hands of the United States government from their first interactions through the mid-twentieth century. Government policies concerning American Indians worked in conjunction with the prejudices harbored by the majority of the white population in the United States to suppress Native American liberties and strip them of their cultural identity. These policies gave little to no regard for Native American customs, personal expression,…

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    Within John Rollin Ridge’s work The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta the Celebrated California Bandit, the theme of race plays an important role. Various minorities are depicted and mentioned throughout this work. From Mexicans, Americans, Chinese, Native Americans, and even Germans, it is interesting to see the various ways each of these groups of people are depicted by the author John Rollin Ridge, who is half Native American and half white. Thorough this story, Ridge uses the theme of…

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    Document 17-4 Analysis

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    The document that I selected to analyze is document 17-4. Document 17-4 was written by In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, or Chief Joseph, and was written in 1879. The reason as to why the document was written, was because Chief Joseph was explaining himself to the Americans all the things that have been done to him and his tribe both in past and in present in great detail and explaining to the Americans that he and his tribe members are the victims. A historical theme that is related to this document is…

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