Native American tribes in Nebraska

studying the history of Native Americans we can understand some of their characteristics, qualities, and perspectives regarding America’s landscape. Many of these still persist today in the original form or mutated ways. The Native American quality of living unsustainably persists today in various forms because it is difficult to notice an unsustainable lifestyle at first as described by John Steinbeck, Barry Lopez, and Scott Momaday in The Log From the Sea of Cortez, The American Geographies,…

country could not have been easy, the approach taken when establishing a new settlement plays an imperative role in the future of the settlement. Motivation for immigration, course of settlement establishment, nature of relationships formed with Native people, and determination to continue life in the new land—these are just a few of the factors that play a significant role in the similarities and differences of the journey to settlement and civilization experienced by the Spanish and…

colonization through the American Revolution. The opportunities during this time frame include discovering new land, a new way of living, having religious freedom, and new job opportunities. In the beginning, America was only inhabited by Native Americans. Many, as much as ten to fifteen thousand nomads, have been believed to have crossed the land bridge from Siberia and possibly some Asians may have come over by sea some thirty-five thousand years ago. Over time, the Natives had the…

them in fighting the Americans. Shortly thereafter, during the period that Florida was under nominal Spanish rule, the Americans attacked. Abraham fled from General Andrew Jackson’s military advances and helped build the Negro Fort (1816) on the Apalachicola River. The Fort became a haven for African Americans who had escaped slavery from neighboring Southern States. The fort was attacked and destroyed during the first Seminole War (1817-1818) and most captured African Americans were returned to…

corn to Europe and horses, sugar, and diseases from the Old World to the New World. The trading of all of these goods caused the landscape of the New World to change as they cultivated new crops like rice and wheat as well as killed much of the Native American population from European diseases like smallpox. However, this process mainly impacted the Indians as they were wiped out and their culture was replaced with European traditions.…

highlight important notions such as “sovereignty,” “recognition,” “separateness,” “domestic dependent nations,” “dominate the physical space,” “reform the minds,” and “absorb the economic”. The authors argue that the legal and juridical sovereignty of American Indian provides them with the right to maintain and protect their traditional distinct political and cultural communities. In this pretext, to deal with the growing environmental problems at an alarming level, the tribal governments have…

Before discussing the film Windtalkers, it is necessary to address the historical background that is presented in the movie, as well as the role of the Native Americans in the national context. The Second World War altered the way of life for most of the Native American community. Many Native Americans began abandoning their reservations and moved to the cities in search of better jobs and pay; others joined the U.S. armed forces, in order to protect the free world from the Nazi aggression. The…

From Hollywood film to actual history, people now know that Native American Indians weren’t as bad as Hollywood liked to portray them. With such animosity between whites and Native Americans during 1864, Indian civilizations became substantially extinct. With the rising popularity and value of mining gold during 1864 and the years following shortly after, soldiers and white Americans increasingly began to overtake the Native Americans homes, reservations, food supply, and everything they owned.…

on the complexities of the relationship between Native Americans and European Americans, criticizing Caucasians for hypocrisy and fight for power between the two. His many examples comparing the relations between Whites and Native Americans in his essay, while formidable to producing his argument, are helped significantly by a metaphor presented through the mentioning of Mary Rowlandson, a historical figure who was held captive by Native Americans. Alexie’s argument as to the counter…

For many years in history, Native Americans have been mistreated. The past is not something that is easy for them to look at. They’ve been beaten, attacked, forced out of their homes, and killed. Even nowadays they are often mocked and made fun. The way we have treated and viewed Native Americans has evolved over the years, but the past still haunts them. In “The Diary of Mary Rowlandson”, the settlers invaded the villages, beat the natives over the head, cut open their bowels, stripped them…