Native American tribes in Nebraska

Jane Tompkins’s West of Everything is an energetic and lively account of the most beloved and legendary American genre—The Western. Western films and novels have become a large part of many American’s lives and continues to influence filmmaking to this day. People from all over the world visit western states to have what they think is the cowboy experience. West of Everything expresses a heavy concern with the role of gender in the genre, however, and points out that it is a male dominated field…

Laurence Shames states in his article, The More Factor, “Frontier; opportunity; more. This has been the American trinity from the very start.” Shames starts his article by giving the example of speculators who built provisional towns in Texas during the 1880’s. These businessmen would buy land; then they would then hire workers to lay out a Main Street, build a few makeshift buildings, and finally move out. After the town was built and deserted by the workers, the speculators would hire people…

According to Laurence Shames, “Americans have always been optimists, and optimists have always liked to speculate” (90). Shames starts to talk about how Texans would purchase some land, put a main street on it, building some structures and call it a town all hoping for the railroad to come through their town. Every single person who tried to do this we're optimists. In the article “The More Factor” they did this for two reasons: to make money and for America to keep booming like it was. I think…

In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Native American author Sherman Alexie writes about his life on the Spokane Washington Indian Reservation. The main character Arnold Spirit who liked to be called Junior portrays Alexie who grew up on an Indian Reservation. Junior struggled with his identity on a personal level, along with how others view him, and how all non-Indians picture Native Americans. Throughout Junior has added difficulty because Indians are surrounded by…

“The Black Elk Speaks” is a book on the life of Black Elk. The narrator John Neihardt, tells the story of Black Elk’s life, which is translated by Black Elk’s son Ben. Neihardt shares the journey of Black Elk, which includes his early life as an autobiography, spiritual revelation, and about the history of his tribal life and religious believes and customs. In the beginning chapters Black Elk as he is saying his story, he tells the audience that this is not his story alone, this story is about…

and how that form the generation to come and their identity. The missions in California were really bad place to bed especially if you were a non-Christian Indian women. Those women where savagely raped by the soldiers it had gotten so bad that the native people were resisting missionization and some were even becoming warlike and hostile because of the soldiers repeated outrages against the women. This resulted in the Amerindian to attack which the soldiers countered with unauthorized…

The federal troops were regulated to major cities; thus the Cristeros fought mainly agraristas. Cristeros were supported by the locals and managed to defeat the federal cavalry in several battles. Despite these wins, the Cristeros struggled to find leadership. There were chiefs that commanded different groups of men; but not one main single leader. One notable feature of the Cristero Rebellion was how it split the social classes. The middle-class members fought in Mexico City, while the lower…

The Spanish “Golden Age” began around 1492 with the rise of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty and the unification of Spain under King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile. Together they forced all non-Christians to convert to Christianity or leave the country. Also during this time, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella gave their support to Christopher Columbus as he set sail in search of new trade routes. Instead of finding new trade routes, Columbus discovered America. This discovery…

taken over present day New Mexico and the Natives, in particular Pope, were mad because this angered their spiritual ancestors. They were angry because the Spanish set up churches and imprisoned many of the Natives. Although some were not on board, most Natives kicked out the Spanish and destroyed their churches and killed many priests. The Spanish fled to Mexico to regroup. -This like the Iroquois Confederation was significant because a group of Natives were actually able to hold their ground…

John Colter an explorer of 1808. Tom Murphy a modern day explorer. Both explorers, but have differences and some similarities. Lets explore the two worlds together. John Colter wasn’t really known for anything, but in some minds he's a legend. On October 15, 1803 he joined the famous adventure of Lewis and Clark in Maysville, Kentucky. In 1806, when the returning from the adventure they were in what is now North Dakota. Colter went different ways with Lewis and Clark, joining up with two…