Trail of Tears

Tracks is set during the historical period when the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. It is essentially a story about land and the lives of the people connected to it. As a result the earth is element associated with this novel. The objectives of the Dawes Act were to revive the Native Americans out of poverty, savage way of life and to stimulate them into unite the mainstream American society. It. allowed tracts of land that had been communal reservation property to be allotted to individual tribal…

The United States can make up for the injustices it inflicted on Native Americans by returning the land they took from them. The Government offered the Sioux money in return for their stolen land, but the Sioux did not accept. They denied the money because Their land is like a relative to them. How would you feel if the government took some of your relatives and offered money for them? The Sioux deserve to have their land back. The United States broke all their treaties with the Sioux…

The Achumawi was a group of Indians located in the northeast corner of California. It was estimated in 1770 that there were 3,000 Achumawi but the estimate included the Atsugewi who happen to be great friends with Achumawi but are a different tribe entirely. Later on, in the 1910 Census, there is only about 1,000 Achumawi. Achumawi means River people. They were also called Pit River People because of their hunting habits of digging pits to trap deer. The Achumawi spoke the Palaihnihan Language…

The Native American population has suffered many tragedies at the hands of the United States government from their first interactions through the mid-twentieth century. Government policies concerning American Indians worked in conjunction with the prejudices harbored by the majority of the white population in the United States to suppress Native American liberties and strip them of their cultural identity. These policies gave little to no regard for Native American customs, personal expression,…

The document that I selected to analyze is document 17-4. Document 17-4 was written by In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, or Chief Joseph, and was written in 1879. The reason as to why the document was written, was because Chief Joseph was explaining himself to the Americans all the things that have been done to him and his tribe both in past and in present in great detail and explaining to the Americans that he and his tribe members are the victims. A historical theme that is related to this document is…

King Philips War was the last Native American attempt to push off the invading whites from America. Their efforts were left in vain; however, it did inflate the most destruction on a white population in American history. The Native Americans problems and reasons for getting rid of the colonists were based from the lack of land, since more settlers kept pouring into their region, and competition for resources needed for survival. Nevertheless, the biggest problem, and what I believe became the…

The Ohio River begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, extending roughly 900 miles downstream and ending in Cairo, Illinois. It is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River on the basis of volume. Throughout time, the Ohio River has been called many names by different civilizations. The Shawnees called it Spaylaywitheepi, the Miami tribes- Causisseppione, the Delawares- Kitonosipi, the Spanish- Dono and Albacha, and the French-…

The Sioux Indians came to North America from Asia about 30,000 years ago. The name Sioux actually means “little snake”, which was given to them by the Chippewa Indians. Sioux were nomadic, meaning that they never stayed in one place for an extended period. Typically they followed the pattern of the buffalo, making sure there would be food and clothing wherever they traveled. The Sioux made the mistake of becoming close with the westward thrust of American expansion at a time when the American…

The Forced relocation of Native Americans better known as the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Dawes Act and the Indian new deal of 1924. The U.S policies stated towards Native Americans affected them greatly in the 18th and 19th century but continue to impact their lives today. The Indian removal act of 1830, implemented by President Andrew Jackson was placed to force Native Americans to leave their homelands and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, in my opinion…

5 important policies imposed on Native Americans: The Indian Removal Act was passed in the US in 1830 to provide legal grounds for the expulsion of Indians from the states east of the Mississippi River. The law authorized the president to begin negotiations with tribes living within the states to exchange their lands for lands purchased in 1803 in the Louisiana Purchase. On February 8, 1887, the US Congress passed the "General Allotment Act". Later, he became widely known as the Dawes Act. The…