Native American tribes in Nebraska

California gold rush was started by the discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848. This was one of the most significant events to shape American history during 19th century. As news of the gold spread, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled to San Francisco and the surrounding area. By the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000. A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold…

The Ghost Dance is a Native American religion that was instituted in the nineteenth century by a member of the Paiute tribe , Wovoka (Bowker , The Columbia Encyclopedia). The Ghost Dance Religion itself was a ritual for a peaceful end of the Western expansion and the Native Americans to get their land back . The actual dance ritual only lasted five days (each night of each day except for on the last day it was from the night until morning) (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions).…

aftermath had great impacts on Native American tribes all across the country. At the start of the war, many tribes had decided to join the Confederacy, mostly because some of their tribe members had owned slaves. Since they were apart of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy had decided to pay all of the annuities that the Government of the United States had provided. After the Civil War, the tribes that were apart of the Confederacy were severely punished. The tribe of the…

Manifest Destiny is a 19th Century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American Continents was both justified and inevitable. Several people in the 1800s and 1850s believed in Manifest Destiny. During Westward Expansion vast amounts of land was open the further west the Americans traveled no one knew where it ended. Americans had fought hard for America and were not going to give up on their country. Expanding west was no doubt America's fate. The growing population and…

Native Americans have had an estimated 1.5 billion acres of land taken from them by the United States (The Invasion of America). Nearly every tribe’s land has been greatly reduced by white settlers, whether by forceful removal or sneaky laws and enactments. Losing so much land can be devastating to a nation. The location of a nation can determine the natural resources that can be used, the size and population, and the territorial jurisdiction. Land not only provides economic opportunity, but is…

Elliott West’s book The Contested Plains sets out to explain the history of the prairie, the rise and fall of the native plain people, and the rush to find fortune during the Colorado gold rush. The first section of the book, Vision, chronicles the rise the native Plains people. Beginning with Clovis people, West traces a history dating back more than 5,000 years before Common Era. These tribes “preyed on the Pleistocene herds” and “established a remarkably successful, sustaining way of life…

The Native Americans are the original Americans. At one time many tribes lived as hunter gatherers and farmers made of different tribes spread though North America for numerous years. However, through the settlements of the New World by Europeans, unfair treatment from state and federal government, slavery, and suffering (diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever. All imported by the Europeans, to which they have no…

faced by Native American's It is no long lost secret that the early American's had seized the land from those who had settled here first. The Trail of Tears, the Indian Removal Act, and many more incidents had gone underway demoting the place of the Native American's in society. As a result, the Native American ethnicity has become a minority. Many estimate as much as 30% of the Native American population had been shaved down by the diseases brought by the Trail of Tears which forced the Native…

federal government eager to undertake a project which would reduce dependency on foreign oil. Native American agitation over the proposal is a contemporary example of protest by a non-political minority group whose outsider status prevents it from exercising its property rights within a capitalist system. Minority groups separate from the body which forms a social contract…

Oglala Sioux took a stand in history when he refused to give up his tribe’s land, proving the strength of the Native Americans and creating opportunities for better American Indian rights in the future. Before the exploration of the American West, Sioux Indians led favorable, happy lives. Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Sioux tribes lived in present-day North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Montana (Monroe 8-9). They lived in tipis and survived by…