...the Nez Perce War? The U.S. wanted gold that was in Washington State, so they made agreements with some Native American tribes to get their land. The Nez Perce tribe didn’t want to sign the treaties to give up their land. This started conflict between the United States and the Nez Perce, and war was declared. The United States weren’t justified in their actions leading up to and during the Nez Perce War because they killed the Nez Perce people just because they refused to sign the treaty, didn’t fulfill their duties of signing the treaty, and because the U.S. should have let the Nez Perce tribe live because they were free people. To begin with, the United States citizens...
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...Instances in terrible things are happening to innocent people. Use the events and ideas about why and how it happened to answer this question Does Evil exist in the world? Is everyone black and white? Is someone all bad or all good? Can evil be overcome What do you believe about evil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre Since the beginning of time, there has always been the age old question, why do bad things happen to good people? First the apple with Adam and Eve, Jesus being crusifide for our sins, not his, and the Native Americans loosing their land and their lives. If you look up “Indian massacre” on Wikipedia it states “a specific incident wherein a group of people (military, mob or other) deliberately kill a significant number of relatively defenseless or innocent people”. Defenseless or innocent people.... If that is not the true meaning of bad things happening to good people, than I do not know what is. As far back as 1325 records show there was Crow Creek Massacre where 486 people, native american people, were killed in South Dakota. In 1783 it is estemiated that there were approxiametly 600,000 indians controlling most lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. By 1890 only 250,000 remained, they were relocated to lands west of the Missippi River, living on reservations, which were just a fraction of the amount of land they once controlled. Those numbers indicate that 350,000 native americans were dead in less that a century. Yes, many died...
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...If you were offered $5 million dollars and 70,000 square miles of land, would you agree to move away from home? For most of the Cherokee during the earlier 1800’s, the answer to this question was a firm no. During that time period, the United States government had been attempting to move Native American tribes west into their newly purchased Louisiana Territory. Previously, the Cherokee had sided against them in many wars, and had expressed violent attacks against them. The government wanted to move them off of their Georgia land. This caused the Indian Removal Act to be created. The president, Andrew Jackson at the time, suddenly had the power to negotiate treaties with Native Americans that would move them into Indian Territory. While many...
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...despite the knowledge we have of repeating history, we are doomed to dwell in our never-ending troubles. Our attempts to solve one social issue will cause another issue to be created or rise. The book by Ira Silver contained very relevant and interesting social problems. It was hard to decide which two to discuss, so I was drawn to ones that I witnessed that compelled me to find more information about. The first I am going to discuss is the recurring issues that are discussed in chapter 4. Police mistreatment of blacks I have witnessed many times. I was in the position in life to be exposed to the police patrolling the streets of the poorer sides of town. The areas I lived in were where black populations were high because due to our American history, blacks were one of the largest groups of minorities neglected by society. They have been predispositioned to live in poverty. Police has ignored me while the friend I was with would be harassed and interrogated for no reason. It interested me that the book pointed out the fact police have the mentality to see the poor as criminals and criminals are rivals to police. The discussion of zero-tolerance can be debatable. Some may believe that is the only approach that can be successful when dealing with crime. Yet. As Richard Emery stated, freedom has to have some tolerance(Silver 64). And as Reppetto pointed out, it is very hard to practice the balance of good crime control and...
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...The Bureau of Indian Affairs have done many wrong doings in the past. Up until this day, Indians were treated unfairly by the BIA. The organization has many consequences for what the agency did in the past, even though they weren't the same people who enforced the rules and horrible actions of relocating the tribes. The Trail of Tears was a devastating, lengthy walk across the country for many Indian tribes. They were ordered to relocate to assigned Indian territory so that Americans could expand their land. The BIA played a big role in this, and they will most likely not be forgiven. The current employees of the BIA have to carry the consequences and criticism that the previous generation of workers did to the Indian tribes. No matter...
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...OOriginally called The Battle of Sand Creek, The event that would become known as the Sand Creek Massacre was true to its name was a massacre of Native American tribes by the US Military. Many of the Participates of the Massacre and their supporters claimed that their actions during the massacre were justified and many shared the horrific sentiments of their commanding officer, Colonel John Milton Chivington would be quoted saying “Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. ... Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice (“1)” and sadly that’s precisely what they did. In a retaliatory response to attacks by aggressive...
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...The Great African Slaves Slavery was a terrible thing, incarcerating poor innocent humans, wrenching them from their homes and forcing them to work for free is just simply barbaric. Often when studying the subject of American history, many people wonder why Native Americans were not slaves. After all, they were already in the Americas and there was many of them, almost as much as the European population. One of the biggest hindrances to having African slaves would be the rapid spread of European disease throughout the Native Americans. When the Europeans got to the Americas, they brought with them many diseases. These diseases spread through the Natives like wildfire and slowly but surely their numbers kept going down. The Europeans were also concerned about how brittle they were, because of the fact that they were so sickly they wondered how well they would be able to handle rough fieldwork. On the other hand, African slaves had already had contact with the Europeans, they had been exposed to European diseases for thousands of years and they were almost immune to most of them. Another Reason as to why Native Americans were not good candidates for slavery was their vast knowledge of the geography. This was the land in which they grew up in, if they were to plan an escape, they would be able to find their way easily, they knew just which way to go to make a quick and permanent escape from the Europeans. African Slaves however, they did not know the geography, once captured...
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...Most people know the name of Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was a Portuguese sailor who sailed for Spain. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (of Spain) sponsored his voyage. Some people think Columbus is an important hero because of his many discoveries. Especially, his discovery of the Americas in 1492. Others think he was a villain because he took advantage of people. Christopher Columbus is both a villain and a hero because he took credit for other people's discoveries, he killed many innocent people, and he brought knowledge back to Spain. Most people think that Christopher Columbus discovered America. But actually 500 years before he was even born Vikings discovered America. There crew of 35 vikings was led by Leif Erickson....
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...De Las Casas’s account of the atrocities of the Native American people was very vivid, by grabbing the reader and listing the numerous barbaric acts. “ In this Isle, which, as we have said, the Spaniards first attempted, the bloody slaughter and destruction of Men first began: for they violently forced away Women and Children to make them Slaves, and ill-treated them, consuming and wasting their Food, which they had purchased with great sweat, toil”. As the Spaniards continue to attack the natives by separating families and treating them ill, Casas want to be certain that the Natives troubles are all accounted for. The Spanish’s treatment of the Native Americans can be described as very brutal. Casas himself describes it as “bloody slaughter and destruction.” The Native...
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...The Native America Just the other day in a routine walk to work I overheard a person use the term “A typical American like me”. This stayed with me and had my head spinning the whole day. It kept me wondering, what really can classify a person as a “typical American”, can it be the color of their skin, or the fact that they were born here. In a sense all of us originate from immigrants, the only people that come to mind that were here originally are the Native of Americans. This is a very diverse and multicultural country that has no official religion, culture, or ancestry. It all a melting pot that has a little bit of everything and from and to everybody. What we must take in great consideration that is the origins of America it begins with settlers, arriving to this land and encountering Natives. It is believed that during an Ice Age they traveled a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from Siberia to what is now known as Alaska today. It is due to Christopher Columbus that they are known as “Indians” this is due to the fact the he believed he had arrived in the Indies. The interaction and trades with the settlers paved the way of nations to born in this continent and with help of Native of Americans the development of these nations. There is a great contribution to the birth of this country be the Native of Americans. However not just to birth but to the development and endurance of time. In the beginning it was Sacajawea who helped Lewis and Clark reached the west...
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...time. Kids, adult’s men and women, and babies that some were still attached to their mothers while dying. Overall just an unbelievable sight to see and vision as lives were taking and just left there like trash as a storm comes through and covers the bodies. As Black Elk stated at least they were in a better place for as the older children and adults but the babies were more innocent than anyone else. How did President Harrison describe these atrocities? The President described this as a way for the Sioux tribe to maybe test the waters on the laws that were being handed down to them by the government and engage with these issues. He also describes them as a turbulent group almost warlike in actions so they were excited to see what would go on. Harrison says because of their hostile ways, that this massacre could have be determined as to the result of them being so violent. Whom did Black Elk blame/ whom did Harrison blame? Like I stated in the previous question, Black Elk put more of the blame on how unsystematic way governed bodies or police enforcements handled themselves when they killed an innocent man in cold blood. The killing of Sitting Bull started the fight that started the massacre. Harrison blames the Indians particularly the Sioux tribe for their hostility towards what they wanted to see and go on but it didn’t happen that way. According to President Harrison, what was...
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...documents that i read also showed that he was a villain and a hero, but in most of the documents it stated that he was more a hero than a villain. In document 1 the info tells me that Christopher Columbus was a hero. In his diary he was a hero because he was being nice to the native American. The native Americans came up to there boat in big canoes and brought balls of cotton, parrots, and javelins to trade with them. Most people would...
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...The definition of an American can be interpreted in a number of ways. America has a rich, diverse, and at times, upsetting history that has accumulated over the last few centuries, shaping the way that Americans are defined by people of other nations, as well as the way that they define themselves. Years of exploration and immigration have molded America and created a unique culture, so unique at times that parts of the culture clash. This has become the basis of conflict and prejudice that still prevails in today’s society and government. Explorers like Christopher Columbus used force to gain power and money, while other groups like the Pilgrims came to America for religious freedom, proving that Americans are built on a foundation of...
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...hold it represents the reality of Native American history. A stagecoach is traveling through a desolate valley, when the passengers suddenly and without provocation find themselves surrounded, threatened, and eventually attacked for no reason by “injuns” on horses carrying guns and bows and arrows. Movies of Native Americans traveling in large groups circling wagons ready to attack innocent people played a pivotal role in promoting the image of the savage untamed Native American. While at the same time, the white settlers were portrayed as moral humans only trying to protect their land and their family from the brutal and savage Native Americans bent on killing as many white settlers as possible. Of course, there were conflicts and deaths, but very few were the result of hostility between settlers and Native Americans. When Native Americans tried to defend themselves and their land, settlers or troops attacked them. We learned from “Major Problems in the...
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...I would be the immigrants that came during the boosterism of Colorado. They came for a variety of reasons like for example for gold, in hopes to get rich quick, or seeking for a new start to live life. I would want to be categorized as one of them because I feel like we would feel the same way about the native americans,conflicted. At first they wouldn't think much of them as for we are all different people with different cultures. Then during the travels through Colorado, they will witness other families being raided and mutilated, without having a clue why the Natives were doing what they were doing. Causing them to fear the Natives and perhaps even hate them for their attacks. As the Sand Creek Massacre Witness Account said “ Local newspapers...
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