Native American history

To this day, the battle and the histories associated with the Alamo continue to generate feelings of courage, endurance, heroism, and patriotism in those who learn about the battle. Via analysis of the following sources gathered, I will investigate the ways in which modern historians explain how myths, legends, and stories of the Alamo influence American memory and culture. Cultural historians have approached this topic by analyzing the portrayals of the Alamo in popular culture such as TV shows…

Traditions: Lessons from an American Childhood depicts the significance of the traditions of history, education and argument, and civics as well as express how these concepts are connected. While Nadar experienced these things as a child and his narrative refers to events when he is younger, these virtues are vital to the engage citizens to actively participate in government and impact their communities. To gain more aware and active citizens, these citizens must be equipped with history. In…

This book is about 400 year’s history of the relations between European and American indigenous people. Since the book is only 236 pages long, the reading experience is not pleasant but relaxed. After finishing reading, I think I will recommend this book to other people, because it is a really organized book for people who is not familiar with the history of the European and American indigenous people. The primary function of this book is to bring the demonic history to the public and criticism…

Oral History: Effective or Defective? Oral history is a method used to attain historical knowledge through interviews and recordings of people’s memories of past events. Paul Thompson, the founder of the journal of Oral History, proclaimed, “Oral history is not necessarily an instrument for change; it depends upon the spirt in which it is used.” Most historians have mixed views on oral history. There are historians who question whether oral history is effective in the field of history, while…

I realized how many stories that canyon must contain, not just Brighty’s, which was tragically fictional, but the stories of Native people, and the first European explorers, and all the cowboys of the wild west. It was in that moment I realized I wanted to know these stories, that I wanted to learn all about history. A passion just beginning to form that would ultimately become the focus of my academic career. A connection between stories and experiences. It was the moment…

be more done to address the problems that Native Americans have faced and continue to face to this day. There need to be changes made in how history is taught in schools. Every aspect of history should be taught, not just the Americanized version of history. There is a popular quote that states that “History is written by the victors”. This is shown to be true throughout all of history, including now, in American classrooms, when certain parts of history are edited or omitted in order to…

events. Hundreds of massacres orchestrated by the European man killed the Native Americans. Deception was key in the atrocities, the white man would promise “peace” and then brutally murder the Natives. The genocide continues today as alcohol, introduced to the Natives by the Colonists, ravages through the reservations. Sherman Alexie, author of “Evolution”, does not shy away from any of these tough subjects as a Native American man. Alcoholism plagued him and his parents while growing up on the…

Native American history, just like other ancient cultures, is created through historical sources such as journals, art, and stories passed down through the cultures descendants. No matter how many sources there are that describe what the culture was like and how they lived, there will always be gaps in the information. When it comes to Native Americans, before the arrival of Europeans there is very little information about most of the tribes that dotted North America. Once the Europeans…

The Native Americans have had a tumultuous history in the united states. They have had their land stolen away from them and their identities almost vanish from history or their culture identity be reduced almost to a headdress that one might see around Halloween. The Native American people as a whole have suffered so much but have almost been reduced to early colonial history. The Native Americans have been reduced to mere history books instead of an actual group of people still living.…

before European arrival onto American soil. Most Americans don’t even know about the complex irrigation systems Natives built, the glorious cities which stood before the Europeans, and even the thousands of diverse tribes who had their own language, cultures, and history. Many textbooks illustrate and write about how Europeans have had a huge impact on our country, but what about the impact Natives had? Native Americans have had just as big of an impact on our country’s history as Europeans,…