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Sand Creek The Morning After In Annette Jaimes, “Sand Creek The Morning After” she first starts by giving a background to the atrocities done to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho in late 1864 after stating they were at peace. This group of people, after being having countless lives taken, were driven out of their Colorado. She moves forward two decades where the American Indian community celebrate the renaming of Nichols Hall and honoring those who were slaughtered at Sand Creek. As the new…

History of the Choctaw Indians of Philadelphia, Mississippi The proud heritage of the Choctaws in Mississippi dates back to the when the Europeans began settling in the 16th century. When the Europeans arrived they found the Choctaw using these principle sources of food: corn, beans, pumpkins, nuts, fruit, fish, bear, and deer. The Choctaw Indians possessed agriculture skills and they were hunter gathers. This allowed the Choctaw to create a strong business relationship with the Europeans…

After the events of Confederation Canada wanted to expand its borders to stop America from achieving their goal of manifest destiny. Then, farmers started to move in and take hunting ground land from the metis and turned it into cropland. After, Louis Riel stepped in to the picture and told them that this was unlawful. Louis Riel was a political leader of the metis people of the Canadian prairies, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a Canadian politician. He was born on October 22, 1844…

Have you ever thought about how the United States got their land and if it was justified or not? Many Americans used God as an excuse to push inhabitants out of the land Americans wanted. This belief was called “Manifest Destiny”. The benefits of “Manifest Destiny” did not outweigh the negative consequences due to the treatment of the Native Americans, the Mexican American war, and the gold rush. The Americans defended their movement west by the “Manifest Destiny”. As the United States moved…

The Trail of Tears begins a short time before the Revolutionary War, roughly 1771, with the birth of a Cherokee names Ridge. Ridge, who was one-quarter Scot, and his family settled in northwest Georgia with several other mixed-blood Cherokees. This territory is where the Cherokee Nation would eventually be centered around. When Ridge reached manhood, around the age of sixteen, he became a warrior. Doublehead, a corrupt Indian chief, taught and instructed Ridge to be a warrior and then took him…

Although credible sources acknowledge the death of William McIntosh as an assassination commandeered by rival Chief Menwana; Creek law divulges that Chief Menwana was not only justified, but also encouraged by Creek law to kill Chief McIntosh. Chief McIntosh was a controversial Creek leader whose strong relationship with the United States government cast suspicion about his loyalty to the Creeks. “McIntosh was related by blood or marriage to several prominent Georgians...These marriages helped…

When it comes to Native American history, Jackson ranks right up there with the worst genocidal tyrants. Because white Southerners in the early 19th century craved the land inhabited by native tribes like the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and Cherokee, they needed the government to expel the original inhabitants so they could seize the property for themselves. Although the law only permitted voluntary and peaceful removals of natives from their land, Jackson ignored the law…

The Miracle of 1527 You are walking along a trail suddenly six Native Americans surround you. They all have spears, and they ask you to set all your stuff down. What would you do? Cabeza de Vaca set sail with Panfilo de Narvaez and his crew, who all had a common goal to establish settlements along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the mission began in the spring of 1527. How did Cabeza de Vaca survive? Cabeza de Vaca survived because he had success as a healer, had respect for the Native…

in Georgia because the United States wanted Cherokee land. Historians today still debate about whether the Cherokees should have stayed or left. Cherokee representatives believed that the United States will let them stay, while Boudinot believed that they should leave otherwise the United States would force them out in a violent way. One reason why removal offered the best chance for Cherokee survival is that if they stayed, they would lose their Cherokee civilization. On October 2nd, 1832,…

He shall go his face no show Should Andrew Jackson be removed off of the 20 dollar bill? I believe Andrew Jackson should be removed off of the 20 dollar because he was cruel towards the American Indians and He only supported the white males. He also supported the Indian removal act and He acted like a king. Although he did some positive things such as creating the spoils system, and contributing to the democracy by allowing more people to vote. Andrew Jackson doesn’t deserve to represent us as…