Trail

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…

Today we are leaving Fort kearney, Kenneth has the wagon fixed and ready to go, i mailed our letter yesterday afternoon and they should be happy to get it when they do. We are following the South side of the Platte River for 170 miles, then we will be at the California Crossing. From there we need to cross the south Platte river to get to the North platte river to follow it instead. We are almost to the California crossing and we are all doing just fine but Juniper is very tired and wants to…

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…

The day started out exceptionally. It was around 4:30 AM and the sun was just piercing through the veil of the horizon. I jumped out of bed, dressed in a long sleeve and a pair of old faded jeans and proceeded to brush my teeth as well as a long hot shower. Afterwards, as a precaution, I had breakfast because I didn’t know where we going to eat on the way to Boston. Rushing to get there already I grabbed my sling bag with my pillow, snacks and money and made my way to school where adventure was…

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…

Wilderness; To McCandless and many other people, it has a very special and specific allure. While to most it is a lawless and dangerous place, McCandless sees the wilderness as a pure state where the evils of modern society don’t exist. This is a place where someone like him can live by his own rules and only be dependent on himself. And for McCandles this was what compelled him to live in and of the wilderness. Although McCandless journal entries depict that he does receive some answers for his…

During the Nineteenth Century, western expansion was erupting in America, and federal policy decided that certain tribes had to be confined to fixed land plots to continue their traditional lifestyles. American Indians were being forced off of their lands, and they were not adjusting well. Federal policy was trying to Americanize the “savage” indians so that they could be introduced into American society. American Indians were sent to live on small areas of land within a group’s territory that…

The Pender Vs Parker case was first brought to light when there was an opportunity for the Omaha Nation to legally tax the all liquor sales throughout the Omaha Tribal Reservation. In 2006, the Omaha Nation Tribal Council elected to tax and regulate liquor sales on the reservation to help stimulate economic development. The tribe’s liquor regulations require licenses for the businesses that sell alcohol and a 10 percent tax on alcohol purchases. A group of retailers sued in federal court in 2007…