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Being of Native American descent; my grandmother (Bessie) a proud Cherokee woman, it was almost natural for me to be drawn to the work of the artist Neil Diamond. “Retrospect: Reel Native Americans” (pp. 428-434) provides us with a glimpse into the transformations made, in the depiction of Native Americans spanning a fifty plus year period. Once, depicted as nothing more than a war mongering savage, through time we bear witness to the softening of the imagery used in the portrayal of the Native…

“The Age of Jackson” Writing Assessment Andrew Jackson should not be commemorated on the $20 bill. While he was a great president, believer in the people’s will, and well respected, he ultimately did more bad than good. One example of this is the removal of Native Americans from U.S. territory, knows as the Indian Removal Act. Jackson decided to relocate the Native Americans after gold was discovered in their lands, which was already desired by the American government. He planned to pass a law…

The Potawatomi Nation was one of the many nations and tribes removed from their land during the Indian Removal Act of 1830.These members have traveled all over the states before they finally made home in present day Shawnee, Oklahoma. Where they came from, who they were, and what has changed in the Potawatomi Nation. First of all, The Potawatomi Nation was a great tribe that started in the Wabash River valley of Indiana. When the Indian Removal acts after the 1833 Treaty of Chicago they were…

During the Creek War (1813-14), the Maskókî tribes that were in Alabama at the time revolted against the settlers, “the brutal repression and disastrous treaty forced upon them by General Andrew Jackson sent thousands of the most determined warriors and their families migrating southward to take refuge in Spanish Florida.” This of course refers to the First Seminole War (1814-18) when Andrew Jackson was too ambitious at trying to control the Indian problem. While there they merged with the…

After the civil war ended, White Americans decided upon the expansion across the continent. Although some of the parts were already occupied they went through with it anyways. As they made their way towards the western states of the country, they intruded amongst the Native Americans. Throughout this process the Americans crushed the Native Americans as they created a wavering policy towards them. The first thing the Americans did was force the Natives out their homes and lands. They intruded…

military troops arrived with guns to force the Cherokees out of their homes (“Indian Treaties”). Before the Trail of Tears settlers had already taken nearly 25 million acres of Native American land (“Native”). The Trail of Tears was the long thousand mile travel Native Americans made to lands west of the Mississippi River into Oklahoma (“Impact”). Some were cuffed with chains while others were sent by boat in horrible conditions…

Indian Removal: Is it justified? The Act of Removal of the Cherokee Indians was a rough era in history. The Removal of the Indians happened because the citizens of Georgia wanted to mine on their land. The Cherokee Indians had refused to let them mine on their land because the land belonged to the legally and they were not going to let some strangers come and take their land away from them. How would you like it if someone came into your house and told you to leave? I don't think that you…

roadblocks, but received no response. Jean Ouellette then asked the provincial police named the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) for to butt heads with the Mohawk protesters and their barricades. On July 11, 1990 the SQ entered the the barricaded area and used tear gas…

Jackson from trying to kill natives to now rescuing them? The answer might be in the next two letters between Andrew Jackson and his wife. In a letter from Rachel Donelson Jackson to Andrew Jackson, dated March 21, 1814, she writes about the relationship of Andrew and Lyncia [Lyncola], “he [Andrew] is well talks very much of his Little Lyncaia [Lyncola]” In this particular letter we are seeing the Native American baby being treated as a family member not as a servant or slave. To further this…

Indian Removal, a controversy that dates back to America’s founding, has had its supporters and its critics. In 1877, the American government forced the Wal-lam-wat-kin band of the Nez Perce Indians to move from their lands and into an Indian reservation. Their chief In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, whom Americans address by Joseph, traveled to Lincoln Hall in Washington, D.C. two years later to advocate for Indian freedom as conditions in the reservation worsened. His goal was to convince American…