Mormon Trail

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,…

My project is about the Ernest Shackleton expedition. My thesis is: In 1914, the Ernest Shackleton expedition set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent. Shackleton encountered many challenges. Although the expedition never reached their goal, they set an example for future generations that with perseverance and the human will to survive, anything is possible. The idea came from my interest in the outdoors. This story of survival caught my attention. This topic relates to the…

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…

The Native Americans faced many obstacles throughout their transition to the Pine Ridge Reservation. Some of which were caused by the whites, others by their own people. These challenges caused multiple deaths of both the Native Americans and the Whites. One of the largest causes of death for the Native Americans was epidemics and diseases brought by the Whites. The Natives have grown immune or nearly immune to the conditions and diseases that have been a part of their culture in the past. When…

THE PUEBLO REVOLT In 1680 the people best-referred to assemble as "Pueblos" opposed their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest. Spaniards had commanded them, their lives, their territory, and their souls for eight decades. The Spanish had set up and kept up their control with dread, beginning with Juan de Oñate's attack in 1598. At the point when the people of Acoma opposed, Oñate requested that one leg be cut from each man more than fifteen and consequently the rest of the populace be in…

Why could we not have left the natives of the southeastern states how they were, and ventured further west without disturbing the natives of those areas as well? Thousands of Native Americans died during the forced migration that they called “The Trail of Tears”, and I feel that in some way all of it could have been prevented. Even though Andrew Jackson played a large part in the Indian Removal Act, which in my opinion, was one of the lower points in his presidency, he did have a “deep and…

In our country we have had presidents who have done some incredible things for our society and will forever be remember for such. There have also been presidents who have done things that many Americans wouldn’t agree with. That being said, we as Americans have learned to live with such things and become a better society due to the ups and downs of our presidents. That being said one of the most memorable presidents was the seventh of the United States, Andrew Jackson. He came in to office in…

Being of Native American descent; my grandmother (Bessie) a proud Cherokee woman, it was almost natural for me to be drawn to the work of the artist Neil Diamond. “Retrospect: Reel Native Americans” (pp. 428-434) provides us with a glimpse into the transformations made, in the depiction of Native Americans spanning a fifty plus year period. Once, depicted as nothing more than a war mongering savage, through time we bear witness to the softening of the imagery used in the portrayal of the Native…

“The Age of Jackson” Writing Assessment Andrew Jackson should not be commemorated on the $20 bill. While he was a great president, believer in the people’s will, and well respected, he ultimately did more bad than good. One example of this is the removal of Native Americans from U.S. territory, knows as the Indian Removal Act. Jackson decided to relocate the Native Americans after gold was discovered in their lands, which was already desired by the American government. He planned to pass a law…