...need for Americans to continue to expand west, President Grover Cleveland signed The Dawes Act into law. The Dawes Act provided Native Americans free land and citizenship in exchange for their land that the white settlers would take over and own. Some of the Indian tribes agreed to go for the offer and gave up their tribal lands in exchange for land and citizenship, however some of the tribes refused to give up their land. The Nez Perce was a tribe in which members disagreed about what was best for the tribe. In his first speech to the Nez Perce council, Chief Joseph addresses the growing friction between the Nez Perce due to the invasion and trickery of the white people. Chief Joseph opens with a reflection on the encounters and events with white people. his first encounter with white settlers was with Lewis and Clark. Lewis and...
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...QUESTION 6 & 7: Chief Joseph had decided to fight the American army because he had to defend his young warriors or he knew that the American army was looking for pay back. General Howard gave orders to bring the chief and young warriors in. Their attempt at a sneak attack of Chief Joseph was unsuccessful in which the American army lost more than a third of their army while the Nez Perce had lost only a few. Chief Joseph had only wanted freedom for his people and to cultivate and hunt on the land that they owned. The reservations were no more than a prisoner camp. The American Indians were not allowed to travel from place to place, but only confined to the reservation. They needed permission from the federal government to leave and move...
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...Supported by the texts “The Way to Rainy Mountain”-N. Scott Momaday, “Chief Joseph Speaks”- Chief Joseph, “American Progress”-John Gast, I believe that there is no true history to westward expansion. In John Gast’s picture called the “American Progress” there are so many different things happening in it. Showing that he nor anyone knows really the true history of westward expansion. We’ve all gone off what we have heard about history, but what we’ve heard are all people’s opinions about it. Therefore, we have no clue as to what actually happened during westward expansion.In John Gast’s picture, there were indians and animals running, going in a different direction that the white men.There was also an angel going in the direction of which...
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...As a result of western migration, a lot of Native Americans were killed. Furthermore, a lot of the Indians starved to death because their main source of food the buffalo was killed. Unfortunately, by 1883 thirteen million buffalo had been killed by the Americans. A few years after the Civil War, many American’s started to migrate west. However there were many Native American tribes that the US Army continued to fight. The main Native American tribes in the US Army fought with were the Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, Cheyenne and the Sioux. In 1890, the government and the Indians had a primary fight which killed a lot of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (A More Perfect Union p.33-66). After reading Chief Joseph’s story, it makes one think about the things that...
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...Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory to provide enough land for all of the people coming over to America (Westward history.com). All of the people that moved westward moved there for the land to farm on. Some of this land belonged to indian tribes, so they made the Indians go to wherever the White people wanted them to go. The Nez Percé tribe fought many battles trying to escape the white people, but eventually Chief Joseph thought that it would be better to surrender than to keep fighting. Chief Joseph had a hard life, but even through his troubles he made all of his decisions to benefit the tribe. Chief Joseph was given the name Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt in 1840 in the Wallowa Valley. His formal Native American name translates to Thunder Rolling Down a Mountain, but he was commonly known as Joseph, the same name his father, Joseph the Elder, was given after being baptized in 1838. Joseph the Elder tried to make peace with the white people. He was one of the first Nez Percé leaders to convert to christianity to influence peace between his tribe and the White people. The peace didn’t last very...
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...Allotment- a plot of land assigned to an individual or family for cultivation 5. Little Crow- 6. Indian Peace Commission- The Indian Peace Commission proposed creating two large reservations on the Plains, one for the Sioux and another for southern Plains Indians. 7. George Armstrong Custer- commander of the Seventh Cavalry and was defeated and killed at battle of Little Bighorn 8. Ghost Dance- a ritual that celebrated a hope for day of reckoning when settlers would disappear, the buffalo would return, and Native Americans would reunite with their deceased ancestors. 9. Dawes Act- this act allowed to each head of household 160 acres of reservation land for farming; single adults received 80 acres, and 40 were allotted for children. 10. How did Native Americans respond to land lost due to white settlement of the Great Plains? They attacked them. 11. How did Chief Joseph resist the government's attempts to move the Nez Perce to reservations? They fled their homes and embarked on a flight of more than 1,300 miles. In October 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered, and his followers’ were exiled to Oklahoma 12. Why do you think the government's policy of assimilation of Native Americans was a failure? 13. List the reasons that the government's plans to move the Plains Indians onto reservations failed. 14. Assume the role of a Plains Indian affected by the assimilation policy of the Dawes Act. Write a Journal entry describing how you feel about...
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...2012 Several events in Chief Joseph’s term as chief of the Wallowa band show us he was more diplomat than warrior.The Voice of the West The first event happened in 1885 when, Isaac Stevens, governor of the Washington Territory, organized a council to designate separate areas for natives and settlers. Joseph the Elder (“Young Joseph’s” father) and the other Nez Perce chiefs signed a treaty with the United States establishing a Nez Perce reservation encompassing 7.7 million acres in present-day Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. The 1855 reservation maintained much of the traditional Nez Perce lands, including Josephs Wallowa Valley. The second event was an influx of new settlers caused by a gold rush led the government to call a second council in 1863.” Government commissioners asked the Nez Perce to accept a new, much smaller reservation of 780,000 acres (3,200 km2) situated around the village of Lapwai in Idaho, and excluding the Wallowa Valley.” In exchange, they were promised financial rewards and schools and a hospital for the reservation. One of the allied chiefs signed the treaty on behalf of the Nez Perce Nation, but Joseph the Elder and several other chiefs were opposed to selling their lands, and did not sign. Their refusal to sign caused a rift between the "non-treaty" and "treaty" bands of Nez Perce. The "treaty" Nez Perce moved within the new Idaho reservation's boundaries, while the "non-treaty" Nez Perce remained on their lands. Joseph the Elder demarcated Wallowa...
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...for the most part, the people led and government followed.’” “Tolstoy’s favorite metaphor for history was weather, hard to predict with accuracy, impossible to control, yet a palpable fact.” Essay: Based on your reading and research throughout the unit, do you agree or disagree with Morgan’s central ideas in the article? Write an argumentative essay that explains your position, citing specific textual evidence from at least three additional sources from the unit to support your claims. The additional sources are as follows: “The Way to Rainy Mountain” --N. Scott Momaday “Thomas Jefferson’s America, 1801” --Stephen Ambrose “Reporting to the President, September 23- December 31, 1806” (pages 418-21) --Stephen Ambrose “Chief Joseph Speaks…” --Chief Joseph...
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...A bullet would go through a piece of cloth and do great damage to whatever lies behind it. Black Elk’s vision was mighty and vivid but it would not hold off a bullet. I believe in the emotions he experienced as he witnessed all the helpless lives just dead on the ground. That is a traumatic experience and if it was me I would’ve wished death for myself too. This is important to history because it reflects the Indians past. They were pushed off their homelands and put on reservations that were not appealing to their needs. This was also comes back around to be about their ethics and beliefs. They were being gathered and arrested due to a religious ceremony known as the “Ghost Dance.” This event also is the last armed conflict between the United States and Native...
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...lived, there were long expeditions involving brutal ambushes and vicious shootings over land and resources. On Indian lands, there were even millions of dollars of gold discovered and taken by trespassing white settlers. Because of this, the two groups had brutal rivalries. They got into violent fights and even started the Nez Perce war. The three main causes of the conflict and war were land seizing, animal theft, and the unlawful mining of gold. The Nez Perce conflict involved the Nez Perce war, a series of four battles. It mainly involved Nez Perce tribe leaders Chief Joseph, military chief Looking Glass. They were fighting against white settlers and their main military officers, Oliver Otis Howard, Nelson A. Miles and the Nez Perce tribe. The...
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...Inside the “Major Problem in America”, contain ten documents that are written from the native American prospective toward the white people. It illustrates how native American felt toward the white people and how the native slowly dissolves into to the white civilization, as a result, they are trying to purify back their nation. As can be seen in document one, Joseph Brant was a native American that was sent to live with the white people when he was a child. While he was away, Joseph has educated not lesser than any white people. Due to the acquaintance of his character in both Europe and America, he is comparing the civilization between Indian and White. Joseph claimed that there is no law in the Indian civilized, because it was already written on their heart. He also compares the difference of the prison between the Indian and British, the Indian tends to not torture them for...
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...Susan La Flesche Picotte's story is a "Litany of the frontier vignettes of which classic legends are made, and it needs no embellishment.'' Picotte changed the course of history for all Indians. Who would think a woman like Picotte, especially an Indian, could accomplish so much in life? Susan Laflesche Picotte was the first American Indian Doctor in the United States. She inspired many to become a physician. Susan was a "True American Hero." She fought the conflicts of racism and never compromised on her heart’s desire to serve her people as a physcian. Susan La Flesche Picotte was born June 17, 1865, on Omaha Reservation. She had big brown eyes and was the daughter of Joseph, also known as Iron Eye, and of Mary La Flesche. Both of her...
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...certain branches of learning that include mechanical arts and agriculture. 2. Two examples of where the federal government violated treaties as a result of continued settlement into the west and give the results of these conflicts During the nineteenth century the Native Americans were deprived much of their land and were forcefully removed from the west. The white authority failed to honor the treaties they had signed and made the natives vacate their own land. This resulted to relocation of a mass of people from the west. After the war the white authorities started treating the natives in a hostile manner. They claimed ownership of the Indian lands in the west by the terms of 1783 peace treaty. This resulted to relocation of the India from the west. 3. (a)Explain the use of the Dawes Severalty Act in trying to force natives to assimilate to the American culture. What were the unintended consequences? The Dawes Severalty Act provided for elimination of tribal ownership of land and gave out land to individual owners. The head of the family received 160 acres of land. A single adult and a dependent child received 80 and 40 acres respectively. Assimilation of Indians happened through taking Indian children to schools run by whites where they were educated to abandon traditional ways. Creation of Christina churches and spread of Christianity also helped assimilate the...
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...begins by conveying the attitudes of Europeans and their respective nations towards the native tribes encountered in the new world. The Spanish were brutal, the English were cruel yet more subtle than the Spaniards, and once formed, the United States would persecute the natives as well. The Navajo of the Southwest led by Manuelito initially accepted American entry into Indian land, though enacted a policy of retaliation once agreements were violated. Atrocities were committed throughout the war, including a massacre of the Navajo at Fort Wingate, New Mexico in September 1861. Little Crow, chief of the Santee Sioux in Minnesota, also began with attempts to adopt an assimilated American lifestyle, paying a visit to President Buchanan to establish peaceful relations. In the summer of 1862, Little Crow grew frustrated sparking Little...
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...Slide One: During the American Revolutionary war, Joseph Louis Cook was a very high ranking african American officer and Native American Officer, and had a major influence on the war. The questions that will be answered in this presentation are: Why did Louis Cook help America in the American Revolution? What was Louis Cook’s role in the American Revolution? Why did people during Cook’s time honor him? Slide Two: Joseph Louis Cook was born in Saratoga, New York, died in canada, and was buried near buffalo New York. He fought the French and indian war. During the Revolutionary War, he fought several wars in New York, and was stationed at valley forge, which is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Louis Cook settled in New York after the war. Slide...
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