Native American tribes

Native American response paper This response paper will be on the articles A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands by David E. Wilkins and Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas by Debra Merskin. The first article discusses what the Indian tribes were and where they resided. There are many common terms to refer to the native people including American Indians, Tribal nations, indigenous nations, first peoples, and Native Americans. Alaskan natives are called by their territories like the…

1830 resulted in the forced removal of the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Creek and Chickasaw tribes from their homelands in Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama to western land. Colonists had been wanting the land held by the Native Americans for a long time, and when Andrew Jackson came into the presidency, he made their dream of owning it a reality – at the expense of the Native Americans. The Indian Removal Act should never have passed, as it was problematic morally,…

relationship between the Native Americans and the United States hasn’t always been perfect. The U.S. government, before the 1800’s, had come to the land already claimed by the Native Americans and taken it as their own. They took their land, and also relocated all Indigenous tribes to one area in the Great Plains, confining all the different tribes together. As a result, conflicts between the tribes increased. In the mid to late 1800s, the U.S tried to assimilate the Native American groups into…

than human. Roman wanted Nature Americans to live by their culture and morals; they wanted them to live behind all these beliefs. Christianity was the way. The 1517 Protestant Reformation mark a change for Europeans religiously. Roman Catholic came about doing this time period. Many English Protestant believed that Catholic believer were inferior to the nation itself. English beliefs of their cultural and racial superiority came before anything therefore Nature American and Anglo-Saxon had to…

In the early history of the United States, relations with the Native Americans were not perfect. The United States government made an effort to make treaties with the Indians but they failed to honor them. Over 250 treaties were made by the United States with various Indian tribes. These treaties were made over land rights, property disputes, and relation problems with whites. Over the course of history, all the treaties were disrespected and broken in some way by the United States. The Treaty…

(Parker) Folklore and legends are all over the world and in many different cultures. Even Native Americans’ had their folklore and legends throughout their ancestry. Native Americans use legends to help their tribe. Dating back to ancient civilizations, people passed down legends so that future generations would know the past and avoid future dangers. Passing legends from generation to generation was the Native American’s “primary form of wisdom.” (Legends and Stories) Many of the legends…

War is nearing us Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley. However, it is not the Native Americans who are fighting directly, they must choose a side on which to fight on. These sides are the English and the French. They are fighting for control over the Ohio River Valley, an area that both countries have claimed. The Europeans are in dispute of this land because they want to grow their worldwide colonial empires so that they can gain more wealth and prosper. The Native Americans who win would…

he symbols of native american culture might differ in meaning from tribe to tribe. These symbols were made and used for a several reasons and were represented by numerous objects. Some of them were specific to individual families and passed down from one generation to another. Others had a practical purpose like indicating a way for good hunting,or providing directions to get home. Let 's talk about one of them. Native American Totems are symbols of tribes or a family. Animal totems usually…

Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British to keep American colonists from moving westward, but this caused more conflict between American colonists and the British because the colonists wanted more land. Native Americans living in the west felt threatened by the colonists because it was their land that the colonists wanted. Unfortunately, for the Native Americans, the British did not win the American Revolution and thus begun the abuse against Native American rights by the United States…

chapter; Sitting Bull and his tribe, the Hunkpapa people, commenced in a sun dance. Black bear, a leader of the Northern Arapahos invited some Southern Arapahos to Tongue River. They set up camp there, and had many hunts and dances. Because of this, many tribes in the Powder River dispersed all over the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills. When Star Chief Connor of the U.S. Military learned that theses various tribes were scattered, he said that the Native American people “must be hunted…