So Many Tears

The Papaschase Land Claim is a battle that is still currently ongoing today. What was it that sparked such a major event? It is events such as the Papaschase Land Claim that show us the flaws in our judicial system, and allow us towards the betterment of society. What is the cost of such a learning curve? It all started when Chief Papaschase and his brother, along with their individual families started moving in the late 1850s. Over the next few years, the band moved through the Lesser…

Natives had the right to live in. Americans were just taking lands to the west from the British without concern about the large amounts of Natives who live there. They completely ignored that the Natives were also involved in the war for both sides, so they should have been represented in the treaty, but the Americans did not care about who’s land this is, they only cared about expanding their own country. The Natives did not gain anything from the war but lost almost everything they had.…

The United States of America is a large and populous country with over 300 million people spread out among the states, but it wasn’t always that way. In the 1830s the U.S government was struggling to expand its nation into the frontier. As a result, many people including Andrew Jackson and even Indians like Elias Boudinot found it necessary to move and push the Native Americans west. Jackson strongly believed that the Native Americans should move further west because it will save them from…

The Indian Reorganization Act was a combination of good and bad. It can be viewed as bad due to the fact that it was the National governments plan to further transform the Native Americans. They passed the Indian Reorganization act to have the tribes run a government just like the National government. However, The Native Americans had their own culture, and they held a lot of pride to that. The government was unhappy with the Native American’s unwillingness to disregard their lifestyle and…

U.S Congress pass this act so that the americans could move to their lands. It was not right for the americans to take the Cherokee lands. The lands that the americans moved to are the rightful property of the tribes. The lands don’t belong to the states. The Indian Removal Act was not justified. One reason the indian removal act was not justified is because the land was the Cherokees first and the americans just came in and took it. The land was not america's so the americans could not…

meat a buffalo supplies it also provided resources to build tipis, utensils, blanket, leather, shields, weapons, and parts were used for sewing with the sinew (Jawort, 2011). Several reasons existed to eradicate the buffalo. One, the buffalo provided so…

After reading the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, In my opinion the American Revolution did not live up to the ideals expressed in this document. The Declaration of Independence states that “All men are equal,” and are born with Natural/unalienable rights, such as the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Only during the American Revolution and even after that, America went against these laws. For instance, the “Three-Fifths Compromise,” created after the…

Begining the entry of the primary Europeans, the Plight of the Native American's has been managed not without anyone else's input but instead by the early colonialist and the future youthful country the United States would move toward becoming. Show Destiny and American Exceptionalism drove the nonmilitary personnel and government dispositions towards the Native American's and their territories. The U.S. Government has and still is constantly endeavoring to take, control and oversee lands saved…

the way they dress and even some had to speak a different language if they wanted to remain in their homeland. The Cherokee and many other tribes changed the way they taught their children. President Jackson was known as an Indian fighter in the war, he was planning on removing the Indians from their territory to make room for the white American settlers…

SOS Children’s Villages Brief History SOS children’s villages were founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Tyrol, Australia in 1949.as a child welfare worker; he saw how children were orphaned as a result of World War 2 and their suffering. With the generous support of donors, child sponsors, partners, and friends, Gneimers vision of providing loving, family based care for children without parental care. Today, SOS villages associations are active in 134 countries around the world. In Kenya the SOS…