Trail of Tears

The Lakota Sioux, are industrious, nomadic people with strong leaders, homemade clothes, and simple way of life eating what they kill and using every part of the animal. There other Sioux brothers called the Nakota and Dakota lived very close to them and they interacted frequently. Being forced out of there home they had to move North up to Oklahoma. The Lakota are very nomadic people they have gone from place to place. Originally they lived on the northern plains of north america. “The Lakota…

The Removal Of The Cherokee Nation Just like the Louisiana Purchase white settlers traveled to the western territories. To minimize conflict. Thomas Jefferson wanted to move the Indians to distant western lands but he wanted their homelands in the East. This thought became very popular and in 1830’s so the Congress finally passed an Indian Removal Bill. What the bill was about is moving Indians westward. Although they passed the Indian Removal Bill they were upholding the Treaty of Hopewell.…

“Boarding School Seasons”: Struggling to Live in a Structure Without a Home. By Brenda Child. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. In Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, Brenda Child works through letters written by Ojibwe students and parents, a perfect primary source, to best observe the perspectives of Native American families who endured the harsh conditions of boarding schools. Focusing on the Flandreau School in South Dakota and the Lawrence, Kansas Haskell…

The strongest members of the tribe had departed days before on what seemed like another hopeless attempt to hunt; an attempt to survive. Conditions had been very difficult for the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, but their fearless leaders worked frivolously to attain peace with the white troops and settlers and meet the needs of their people. On the morning of November 29, 1864 women, children, and the elderly tribe members awoke to a horrific situation that would come to be known as the Sand Creek…

Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny was where Americans/whites thought that God wanted them to move west to the Pacific Ocean. It was their destiny to take all that land west. O’Sullivan said that “Manifest Destiny is going to happen so it might as well happen now it’s our destiny we can't change that”(History.com). Americans said anything in there way will be removed. Manifest Destiny affected minority populations in the United States because of the Indian Removal Act, Mexican-American War, and…

Did you know that the indians had massacred men, women, and children during 1812? The cherokee Indians were given the option to move to the indian territory in Louisiana. So the americans can have the georgia state and that they didn’t like the fact that the indians had killed people. So the americans wanted them to move to an indian territory so they wouldn’t have to kill the americans. They were also given money and a large land but if they didn’t move then they would have to follow the laws…

Do you like being buried alive? This is one of the many horrible things the Cherokee Indians did to Americans. The Indian Removal Act moved lots of Indian tribes to a reserve, this got them out of the way so America could expand westward. All the Indian tribes signed the treaty and all of them moved but one, the Cherokee. The Indian removal act was justified because the act was completely reasonable, The Cherokee did bad things to Americans in the past and they were the last tribe in the…

The largest mass execution in U.S History, The Dakota Conflict, took place in 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota. Such a gruesome event, ended with 38 Dakota warriors hung at the same time. This all began with Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand land from coast to coast. White business men having had this strong idea in their minds caused many difficulties between them and the Native Americans. Native Americans were unable to read or…

The History of the Navajo and Monument Valley The Navajo, or the Diné as they call themselves, have their own story about how they came to Monument Valley, which they call Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii or “Clearing Among the Rocks” (Perrottet; “Navajo History”). According to one version of that story, there were four worlds of different colors. On the first world there were some types of insects which made up the “Air-Spirit People,” four beings ruling over the four seas, and four clouds over the sea of…

In 1980, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh came to Oregon in hopes to spread love and enlightenment. However, on September 17, 1984 a report was filed to the Wasco County Health Department regarding a food poisoning at local restaurant in a town called The Dalles. Reports of food poisoning kept coming and within a week there were 750 cases of illness. The Centers for Disease Control, or also known as CDC, later determined that the poisoning was not linked to poor worker hygiene, but was a deliberate…