Jeep Grand Cherokee

Before They Cried is a fictional account of the lives of Native American tribes before the Trail of Tears, written by Karen Cresswell. This story is centered around a girl named Us-di that wanted to play and explore but, it was a dark time in her history. Her grandma who she loved had a profound influence in her life as she flourished into a strong young woman, and her spirit animal led her on the path to knowledge and wisdom. Not only did she find herself she found love and discovered truth.…

Historical topic: ___Treaty of Fort Laramie________ I. Introduction Thesis statement: The Treaty of Fort Laramie is important because of how it led to the loss of a lot of Native American culture. It was part of their culture to live close together, but the treaty separated them by giving the Sioux too much land on each reservation. Not only that, but because the U.S. Government did not keep some of its promises to the Native Americans, it was not even worth the tradeoff. For…

A significant and catastrophic event in history was the Indian Removal Act of 1830, initiated and enacted by Andrew Jackson. Standing in the way of white settlers and their path to greater prosperity were the sizable number of Native Americans. The so-called Five Civilized Tribes, which included the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles occupied the land, especially in the South, which threatened the expansion of the land-hungry Americans. President Andrew Jackson promised to…

The railroads opened more efficient trade routes, but it also created conflict with the Native American tribes in the area. Indians in the area had already established towns, but the whites wanted the land. In the 1830 the government adopted a policy of separating the whites from the Indians. The tribes were moved and some went west to the great American desert. The Indians suffered illness like small pox that was brought over by the white settlers. This caused 40% of the tribe population to die…

It granted lands which were not settled as of this date west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Some tribes went peacefully. The five major tribes were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. They were known as the Civilised Tribes that had already taken on a degree of integration into a more modern westernised culture, such as developing written language and learning to read and write. Some…

Act, the Cherokee Tribe was recognized by the Government as their own nation. Gold was another reason that Americans were so eager to get them off their land. Once the white settlers discovered there was gold on Cherokee land, they began to push them out. At the time, Army general Andrew Jackson was an activist of “Indian removal.” He had spent years leading vicious campaigns against the Native Americans which resulted in hundreds of thousands of acres of land being taken from…

Yakama Indian War Causes “Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal, or one of them is superior”-unknown On June 9,1855, the Yakama, Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla tribes were forced to cede in excess of 6,000,000 acres to the United States Government, partly as punishment for the killing by a group of young Cayuse of methodist missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and others. On November 29, 1847,…

Introducing the Kiowas in history, their traditions are able to tell us how they entered the world and how they lived a hard life. In the late seventeenth century, they migrated southward. The Kiowas acquired horses and also Tai-me, which was their sacred sun dance doll. In the map 6.3 in the textbook, it shows us the Kiowa migration route from 1832-1869 and that they migrated south across the Great Plains. Although they were brought to new homes, they encountered with the Americans and this…

Comanche Indians The Comanches, great horsemen who dominated the southern plains, played a major role in the history of central America. Comanches were originally a part of the northern shoshone. The Shoshone and Comanche even have identical languages. Comanches have moved multiple times like the move away from shoshone tribe or moving due to indian conflict. Comanches culture changed once they obtained horses from trading goods which helped them gain territory. While the Comanche believed they…

In six hundred years only traces of three languages in the world as we know it will remain. Everyone will be forced to learn a new, alien language, and be punished for using any language of the old world. Individual cultures will be lost, and generalized, as the world’s languages die out one by one. This is what happened to most Native languages through colonization and westward expansion. Three native languages are “expected to survive into the middle of this Century”3. Immersion schools are a…