Trail of Tears

Chief Joseph Chief Joseph(hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) was born march 3,1840 in Wallowa valley,Oregon. Chief Joseph was a Nez Perce Indian chief who faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon and led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada . Chief Joseph,known by his people as (hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) (thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his tribe into reservations.The nez perce were a peaceful…

PART 1: NATIVES Key Characteristics of the Cherokee: • They originally occupied the Southeast • Around half of them were wiped out due to smallpox by the mid-1700s • They were forcibly removed from their area and forced to go to “Indian Territory”, which is now Oklahoma • About 4,000 of them died during the trip • The earth is suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging from the sky vault, which is of solid rock • At first the earth was flat and very soft and wet The story…

The Shawnee Indian tribe originated in the Tennessee region. They migrated to many other parts of America including Pennsylvania. They adopted lifestyles that were best suited for the regions that they lived in. Many of the Shawnee tribes lived in Wigwams which was a temporary shelter that are small cone-shaped houses made of wooden frames with arched roofs. Some wigwams were covered with buffalo hides if they were available in the area. The Shawnee tribes in Pennsylvania ate fish and game…

At some point in everyone's live we are confronted with a tough decision but the decisions Sam Houston had to make are pretty hard to beat. Sam Houston was a honest and intelligent first president of Texas who makes some very hard decisions in his life that I can fully relate to. I have had many experiences of dealing with this kind of situation in my life.Some of the hard decisions that Sam Houston had to make where how to deal with the Native Americans, vote on the Kansas Nebraska Act, and…

Andrew Jackson was a tyrant! Andrew Jackson ran for president twice, before becoming president in 1932.the cause of Jackson losing was due to the electoral college’s votes outweighing the votes of the people; this allowed Andrew Jackson to act like a democrat stating that it was safer for the people's votes to count more than those of the electoral college. Andrew Jackson was a tyrant because he enforced and supported segregation, blatantly disregarded a ruling from the judicial branch, and…

Into the Circle provides insight into the origins of Oklahoma pow-wows, or Native American gatherings. According to Abe Conklin of the Ponca and Osage tribes, the pow-wows of Oklahoma began in 1877 after the United States army forced the Ponca people from the northern plains of Nebraska into Indian territory in Oklahoma. The conditions associated with this great move were brutal and a number of the Ponca people perished. Despite these tragic events, the spirit of the Ponca people remained…

Land is so important that it causes this ongoing battle with the natives and government. The government sees these land as a way to have business and make it more industrialize. Also, these land have resources that can be useful for the state government. The government did many thing such as removal policy that indicate that Natives have too much land and need the land to develop. So there solution was to remove the Natives from their actual land. The government plans believed that it was a…

America is full of historical events and major battles that marked our nation either positive or negative. As it is known all stories have more than one version and the Battle of Little Bighorn is no exception. For instance, many historians had taken the time to analyze and study the events and actions that lead to the battle and what was the aftermath of it. With this in mind, many historians can conclude that it was “the most successful action fought by the American Indians against the United…

Black Hawk War In the early 1800’s Americans got into many battles with Native Americans over land. When the Americans first arrived they killed Native Americans and burned down their village, Native Americans refused to give their land away without a fight. In 1804 Americans made a treaty with the Native Americans to give the settlers all of the land east of the Mississippi River, in exchange for over two million dollars. In 1808 the Americans built a fort on Native American land, in…

One example of ethnocide presented in the text occurred in the Balkans. The Serbians were demolishing the Bosnian Muslim’s cultural symbols, such as a library and their mosques. This is ethnocide because the Serbians are destroying the Bosnian Muslim’s places of worship and knowledge in an attempt to wipe out their beliefs. Moreover, another example of ethnocide is in Canada, when the Parti Québécois (PQ) came to power in 1976 and required the language of French to be taught in schools and be…