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For 50 years the settlers and Native Americans in New Hampshire maintained friendly relations. Even when most of New England was involved in King Philip’s War (1675-1676) between settlers and native people led by the Wampanoag chief PHILIP, New Hampshire native groups tried to remain neutral. But as white settlements increased, so did tensions. The Europeans introduced livestock that often ruined crops in the Native Americans’ fields, and disputes arose over access to traditional hunting and…

Early Days 1720-1865, Early History of Mississippi Early settlers of Southwestern Mississippi would write back home and would write about the abundance of this new place. One Mississippi immigrant described his new home as “a wide empty country with a soil that yields such noble crops that any man is sure to succeed.” Another new settler wrote to family back in Maryland that “the crops [here] are certain… and abundance spreads the table of the poor man and contentment smiles on every…

Westward expansion almost 200 years ago still affects Native Americans today. Settlers were fearful of the people, they forced them into reservations and into society. Westward expansion had a very negative impact on Native Americans because buffalo elimination caused major life changes, were forced out of their culture, and their land was stolen. The Indians use their buffalo many different ways but that was taken away. One big negative fact is Buffalo extermination. “They kill my buffalo;…

Treaty six was introduced in September 1876 and it lasted until 1898 with the addition of its’ last adhesions. It was signed by Crown representatives and Cree, Assiniboine and Ojibwa leaders on August 23, 1876 at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan and Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan. The treaty boundaries extend across central portions of present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1876, the Medicine Chest was offered within Treaty 6. It had promised medicine chests on every reserve for those bands that sign…

Before 1990, there was no legislation about the use of Native American remains and artifacts in science and in museums. Native American groups had been dealing with the issue of their cultural items being taken from them since the arrival of the first Europeans, but unfortunately the law was never on their side. In 1988, they brought the issue to court. Officials from various tribes came forth with a staggering number of how many Native American skeletons and remains were currently under control…

For Tayo, his recovery of his indigenous roots is all about memory and what feels right. He remembers the stories that were told to him as a child, and remembering what a prayer or greeting was like. “The things he did seemed right, as he imagined with his heart the rituals the cloud priests performed during a drought.” (p. 94) He also acknowledged the side of him that he disliked, the white side, but focused on the people who raised him and who were his true family. Tayo might not know…

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.…

The arguing had gotten to be enough, the feeling of everything always being his fault was just starting to go in one ear and right out the other. He was then left feeling so hopeless. In Jon Krakauer's story Into the Wild readers experiences and are left with some many questions. Including, if we should categorize McCandless as being a successful, goal achieving human being. Of course, everyone has their own opinions on whether McCandless was an example of success while entering the Alaskan…

“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…