him by severing his heart from his body with stone knives, setting free the imprisoned animals. Carving the dead monster’s body into pieces, Coyote flung them throughout the land where they became the different Indian tribes of today. But he had forgotten the region in which…
In America, we love to gamble. Whether it is on sports, dogs, horses, or cars, or even if it is in a casino- we cannot get enough of it. There are about fifteen hundred casinos in the country, scattered from one side of the continent to the other. That is more casinos than any other in the states, and most go all out to make each and every patron welcome and go the extra mile to make everyone feel like a superstar. Most are more than just a simple place to gamble, but they also have shows, a bar…
It was Sunday, and children were running about with their mothers in tow, and the mailmen were relaxing in their homes because of their one, rare day off that had been gifted to them on that fine summer day in July. And there was a certain group of persons, wizened from old age that had a grasp on their colt 's tooth, (1) watching the youngins gallop and hunt after each other, 'round and 'round they went- like a lost puppy chasing its tail. And it was on this fateful Sunday morning that a…
many cultures, the American Indians passed down their own beliefs which describe the creations of Earth and people. Depending on the tribe, location, history, lifestyle and external influences each story contained its own unique variation. The following will compare and contrast the Cherokee and Navajo belief in creation as well as delve into the viewpoints of each tribe and their relationship with the earth, animals and other people. It is hard for a person to understand why particular…
Tomlinson Mr. Carver Comp. Many years ago tribes of the jungle lived in peace, untouched by the outside world. They led a simple life: no gadgets or crazy mechanical contraptions. They hunted with simply a strong stick and a sharp pointed rock at the end, or they would throw stones at their prey in hopes of killing it. Their clothing was what they could make out of the resources that they had, if any. Their beds were the unforgiving jungle floor. Many of the tribes had never seen any other…
The Nez Perce was one of the most powerful tribes in the Pacific Northwest and was the friendly to the whites. ("Chief Joseph"1). Most of their tribe was baptized as Christians. Joseph the Elder was the first Nez Perce to convert to Christianity. In 1855, he even helped George Washington's territorial governor set up a Nez Perce reservation that stretched from Oregon into Idaho. ("Chief Joseph" 1 PBS.org) Then in 1863, they found gold in the mines where the Nez Perce reservation was located. The…
The Ottawa Tribe was one of the first Indian tribes to see the value in education. Because their leaders knew the importance of learning, the set money aside to start a college. The University of Ottawa was founded in 1865 (Ottawa.edu) and has grown into a full functioning college that thrives today. The idea of a school came when a group of Baptist Missionaries led by reverend Jotham Meeker was working alongside the Ottawa tribe to improve their lives (Ottawa.edu). The original idea was to set…
The book I will be analyzing is, Kopet: A Documentary Narrative of Chief Joseph’s Last Year’s by M. Gidley. It was published in 1981 in Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This book is split up into three different sections: 1. Starting Out from the Meany Papers An introduction 2. Chief Joseph of the Nez Peres A chronology 3. White Witnesses to Chief Joseph’s End A Narrative This book discusses the last few years of Chief Joseph’s life, the white people…
Nevertheless, Speck’s arrival in Indian River Hundred proved particularly fortuitous for the Nanticoke, who were at the time facing new challenges to their collective identity. Despite the 1881 law that established a tripartite school system, the county appointed a black teacher to work at the Warwick School in the 1910s and several black children were enrolled soon after. A group of Nanticoke responded unfavorably to these turn of events. After withdrawing their children from the Warwick…
the United States even existed. “The Cherokees lived on land extending from North Carolina to South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama for hundreds of years” (Green & Perdue, 1). They were constantly moving around involuntarily. The Cherokee tribes were often forced to leave their land when Americans found use of the land that the Cherokees were living on. White Americans were wanting their land because they found gold, wanted their livestock and they were able to evict the Cherokees out…