White Earth Indian Reservation

Frank Big Bear, an artist whose roots are seeded in White Earth, Minnesota has spent the majority of his life dedicated to drawing. His drawings reflect specifically where he grew up. As a foster child, Big Bear did not know much of his own culture until becoming more curious as he matured into a teenager. He had to direct his research to outside sources given his public school did not teach Native American culture. After gaining information from his Big Bear grandparents, Frank immersed himself…

The Traditional Belief System- Lifestyle Cherokee Indians are a small portion of Native Americans, however their culture is slowly declining as time goes on. There are many Cherokee ancestry all around the world, including myself, but there are only around 288,500 federally recognized citizens that still belong to a Cherokee tribe. As this culture can seem difficult to understand from its complexity, it is actually quite simple. There are still many elements used today that are from the…

May 28, 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The law authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indians for their removal to federal land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. Andrew Jackson was able to convince the American people that Indians could not coexist peacefully with them. He argued that the Indians were uncivilized and needed to be guarded from their own savage ways. As a result of his actions, thousands of Indians were forcibly ripped from their…

Perhaps more well known then the terror, and genocide of the natives was the dehumanizing exploitation that was the slave trade. The horrors these African American men, women, and children faced under the merciless hand of the white men that reigned over them. There were no breaks in the fence to escape from this cruel form of human ownership, for a long time to come. Frederick Douglass experienced this practice first hand, and never would have gotten free if it hadn’t been for…

avoided the subject of the Native Americans strife. Most recently though the movies created in the last twenty-five years documents the attitude change of the White Man in the acknowledgement of their ancestors contributions of the near obliteration of the Native American race. This report will discuss the relationship changes between whites and the Native American since World War II based on the production of historically documented movies. The film industries have provided a popular cultural…

Throughout the course of this semester we have covered a myriad of myths and how they apply. Of all the myths covered, the Native American myths always stood out most. This paper will be focused on the how the black snake and water protectors of Standing Rock North Dakota and how they can be liked in correlation of the native mythology motif. The myth under analysis is that of Uncegila, a female serpent who can be portrayed in native trickster myths. With all the chaos that has been happening…

of Horseshoe Bend, to the establishment of a new Cherokee capital in Oklahoma, the story of Indian relocation is a sad one but is still an ultimately American one. The Tallapoosa River winds quietly through eastern Alabama, giving no indication of the violence that it bared witness to nearly two centuries ago. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend in many ways solidified the tumultuous relationship between Indians and settlers.…

Race, the White Myth, and the American Bourgeoisie “There is not a country in world history,” Howard Zinn writes, “in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States” (23). Whiteness—that is, the white myth—is an elusive and ever-shifting qualifier, typically understood to mean “of European ancestry;” however, upon further interrogation, whiteness reveals itself as a signifier of power, class, and prowess in a nation that has thrived in its subjugation of ethnic…

the Sioux tribe, describes how they call him “brother” and “uncle,” but also use the term “Wasi’chu,” which means non-Indian, or, “He who takes the best meat for himself” (Huey). This simple term sums up America’s identity well because it is exactly what we did and continue to do. We had taken the metaphorical “meat” of their land and forcibly separated them into small reservations. These are the same natives taught them new ways of sustaining their crops and shared ancient tales would soon be…

and values. Factors and Conditions Leading Up To The Revolt Historians/Scholars/Experts seem to have different interpretations off the 1824 Chumash insurrection. One such expert Author Paul H Gelles who wrote the book entitled Chumash Renaissance: Indian Casinos, Education, and Cultural Politics in…