Portland Trail Blazers

Every group of people that have ever been treated unfairly have been effected in the three same ways; socially, politically and economically, just as the Native Americans were affected during Westward expansion. Westward Expansion began in 1807 and was the US expanding to the Western territories. Essentially taking them from the Native Americans in order to achieve Manifest Destiny. To what extent did Westward Expansion affect the lives of Native americans during the mid to late 19th Century?…

The Trail of Tears Introduction The Trail of Tears was a 1000-2000 mile journey that five tribes had to walk in order to get to their designated land that Andrew Jackson called “Indian Territory.” The Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, were forced out of their homelands, not given any other option but to leave, or be killed trying to stay in their home where you made memories with families and friends. The trail was where thousands of people died from horrible sicknesses,…

During the nineteenth century the United States believed that they had to fulfill a call from god which demanded them to spread west socially, politically and economically. This was later known as the Manifest Destiny which brought the United States a huge amount of territorial growth for the nation. However, many people did not approve of the Manifest Destiny. Like many other people the Native Americans believed it was just a way for the United States to spread slavery and some democrats like…

The Cherokee speak the story of a young man: One day, while out hunting in the forest, the man came across a bear. He fired off arrow after arrow at the beast, but could not bring it down. Eventually the bear stopped running, and stood up, pulling the arrows out of his body and holding them towards the man. The hunter realized he had stumbled across a medicine bear, “protected by magic”. The bear, after promising he would do the man no harmed, led him back to his home. It was a cold winter,…

Chris McCandless died alone in the Alaskan wild while living completely off of the land. “Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals:” while “: others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity-and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received” (Krakauer xi). These quotes represent the feelings of many who read Into The Wild, but most people ignore the important aspects of Chris…

president to make treaties with the native americans and try to offer them money and land somewhere else for there land. Andrew jackson got a lot of the tribes to sign the treaties but the ones that did not were pushed out by force anyway. This led to the Trail of tears which was when Andrew Jackson pushed out all of the Cherokee Nation with force and caused over 4000 native americans to lose their lives. The checks and balances system did not work as planned during this time the government was…

In the "Younger sky that has wept tears of compassion" by Chief Seattle, Seattle uses comparison to Red Indian and white people. At that time, white people came to the land once was the land of Indians people and now called America. White came and took over the land, where the Indians people have lived their memories. Seattle wrote this story that untold to people in 1854. The purpose of writing this story was to let people know how white people treated red indians and their land. After white…

William Blackmore and Sitting Bull both had different viewpoints over who should have ownership of the western lands. William Blackmore believed that the Native Americans would soon die out, leaving room for a “higher and more civilized race.” He used derogatory terms such as “savages” or “Red Men” to belittle the Native Americans. Blackmore made it clear that even though the Native Americans had a population of just 300,000, their hunting practices and free roaming lifestyle took up valuable…

Make or Break Survival Guide LEAD PARAGRAPH A crack in Peru’s southern Andes, Colca Canyon emerges as one of the country's emphatic geological features. Travelers of all kind—wayfarers to those who own the sunglasses—make their way down the dusty trail to see colorful panoramas, and sprawling wildlife. It’s the third most visited sight in Peru, so chances are, you will want to see what it’s all about. Deciding how many days you want to spend, how fast you want to trek, how much you want to…

We were forced out of our old house, not because of something terrible happened but rather for a better life in this area. The landowner asked us to move out because the government wanted this area for public buildings. We moved out of our house and moved to another state. We were in an urban area but the new house we are moving to is in rural area but not really, it’s between rural and urban. My parents like these areas more than the urban area where we stayed because there’s not many people…