...The Native Americans first became significant in states history in the Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Native Americans, who lived east of the Mississippi, farther west. Native Americans have a role in the state’s economy, economic goals, accomplished things, and have social goals. Native Americans role in the state’s economy is that they used buffalo meat for food and the bones, hide were used to make clothes, tepees, and tools. Some $10 billion (2002 dollars) in gold was mined from California, tribal lands between 1849 and 1862.The California Gold Rush was from 1848 through 1855 was in American history which began January 24, 1848. Gold was founded by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This...
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...Southern California presents a varied and somewhat unique region of the state. Beginning in the north, tribes found in this area are the Chumash, Alliklik, Kitanemuk, Serrano, Gabrielino Luiseno Cahuilla, and the Kumeyaay. The landmass and climate varied considerably from the windswept offshore Channel Islands that were principally inhabited by Chumash speaking peoples. Communication with their mainland neighbors was by large and graceful planked canoes powered by double paddle ores. These vessels were called "Tomols" and manufactured by a secretive guild of craftsmen. They could carry hundreds of pounds of trade goods and up to a dozen passengers. Like their northern neighbors, the Tactic speaking peoples of San Nicholas and Santa Catalina Islands built planked canoes and actively traded rich marine resources with mainland villages and tribes. Shoreline communities enjoyed the rich animal and faunal life of ocean, bays and wetlands environments. Interior tribes like the Serrano, Luiseno, Cahuilla, and Kumeyaay shared an environment rich in Sonoran life zone featuring vast quantities of rabbit, deer and an abundance of acorn, seeds and native grasses. At the higher elevations Desert Bighorn sheep were hunted. Villages varied in size from poor desert communities with villages of as little as 100 people to the teaming Chumash villages with over a thousand inhabitants. Conical homes of arroweed, tule or croton were common, while whale bone structures could be found on the coast...
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...For about one fourth of century after the Mexican independence in 1821, California was known as the northern province of Mexico. Huge cattle ranches, or ranchos, appeared as the dominant establishment of Mexican California. Traders and settlers began to arrive from the United States , messengers of the huge changes that would sweep California during the Mexican American War of 1846-1848. However, three centuries later of the imperial rule, the American colonies of Spain began to dictate their freedom. Mexican independence was attained in 1821, which was followed by a long and bloody fight, since then life in California changed slowly in various aspects. To begin with, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo declared California in 1542, however the nation...
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...Native American Gaming in the U.S. Sarah E. Wall TM 378 University of Southern Mississippi The casino industry is a large industry in the U.S. According to Business Insider, the gaming industry in the U.S. is worth over $240 billion dollars (Pierceall, 2014). In 2013, it employed nearly 1.7 million people (Pierceall, 2014). Gaming, gambling, is what the casino industry is made of. Gambling is to make a prediction of an uncertain outcome and the back the decision with money (Hashimoto & Fenich, 2007). Gaming was a tradition amongst the Native Americans long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Native American Gaming is still a huge part of gaming in the U.S. today. History of Native American Gaming: Long before the ships of Columbus brought playing cards to North America, the indigenous people engaged in gambling activities (“Native American Gaming”, n.d.). According to History of Native American Gaming, 2009: “Gaming is not new to Native Americans. In fact, it has been a part of our culture since the beginning of time.” Stewart Culin’s Games of North America Indians classifies the hundreds of Native games into two categories. These categories include (“Native American Gaming, n.d.): 1) Games of chance, including dice games and guessing games 2) Games of dexterity, encompassing archery, javelin and darts, shooting, ball games, and racing games These categories were found among all of the North American tribes when the Europeans invaded the North...
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...In 1948 the Gold Rush truly started, it was the beginning of a time of great optimism in California but it had its difficulties and challenges too. It was a time the common man had power in numbers and even people of non-American birth had the ability to make a difference. It was a time when Native Americans and the environment were shoved out of the way of industry. It was a time when even the poorest of the poor had the ability to and sometimes did strike it rich. Because of this gold rush the territory of California became a state and even through hardships California ended up better than it started. California was all around the fastest territory in the Union to become a state. The population of California was 6,500 Californios, which are people who are from spain or mexico, 700 other people that are mostly American, and roughly 150,000 Native Americans before gold was discovered. It was the 24th of January in 1848 and James Wilson Marshall was building a sawmill on the American River in California, while doing this though he noticed a flake of gold in the river. He later said "It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold." ("Gold Rush of 1849" 3). The gold discovery wrought immense changes upon the land and its people. After three months three-fourths of the men in the nearby city of San Francisco had cleared out and gone looking for gold (Caloma California 1).California, with its diverse population, achieved statehood in 1850, decades earlier than it would have...
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...Native Americans, Struggles, Mascots, and Controversy There has been a national debate for years over Native American athletic mascots. “Members of the North Carolina Mascot Education and Action Group and the Guilford Native American Association, however, repeatedly told us that they perceived the use of Indian mascots, logos, caricatures, and similar images by our schools as a clear form of institutional racism” (Grier 2005: 51). In this paper we will discuss the controversial impact of the Native American stereotype used as mascots. In the early 1900’s when the threat of colonization was abolished Americans started to use the Native American mascot to show their acknowledgement of their struggles. Although this was symbolic it has been an ongoing controversy within schools and sports. California is the second highest state that uses the most Native American imagery and symbols. The importance of this contemporary issue is an ongoing debate in California that has impacted the true history of Native Americans and the battles they went through. The truth is crucial because their imagery and interpretation is misunderstood in American history. In the early 1900’s it became acceptable to use Native American imagery for advertisement. “One of the reasons why most Americans find the mascots unremarkable and do not turn a critical eye toward the mascots is because of the prevalence of similar images throughout U.S. popular culture” (King, et al 2002:391). Although years later...
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...Everyone knows about the gold rush in California. We know that gold was discovered on January 24,1848, right before the end of the Mexican War the following month. With the end of the war meant adversity was going to be a huge challenge for this newly found territory that would later be known as California in 1850. Right away you have Spaniards turned Mexican then turned American, along with Mexican Americans. These people were known as Californios. Within a month the gold rush was in full swing, so how did these challenges affect the mining process? Was it fair for who found what and who got what? What did it do to the state of California? The gold rush had a large impact on the population within California. After James Marshall discovered...
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...located near Nevada City, California is worth building the Miner’s Mountain monument because I researched...
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...2012 California V.S. Oklahoma The United States of America is a federal Constitutional republic composed of fifty states, the federal district of Washington D.C., and several dependent areas including Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands among others. Two of its states are California and Oklahoma. California is the 31st and third largest state of the United States of America in terms of land area. It is also the most populous state with a 2010 population census of 37,253,956 wherein 57.6% is white, 13% is Asian, 6.2% is African American, 1% is Native American, 4.9% is multiracial, .04% is Pacific Islander, and 37.6% is Hispanic. It got its nickname, the Golden State, from the Gold Rush of 1848 which led to an economic boom and the migration of workers and prospectors from other parts of the United States and other countries. It became the center of the entertainment industry in theearly20thcentury. In the late 20th century, information and technology was developed, and Silicon Valley grew into a top exporter of computers. Aside from the entertainment and computer sectors, California’s residents are also involved in trade, business, education, health services,andmanufacturing Oklahoma, on the other hand, is the 46th state of the United States of America. It got its name from the Choctaw words “okla” and “humma” which mean “red people” because it is home to a large number of Native Americans. In...
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...Even though the California Gold Rush may seem beneficial, it was actually highly violent. The Gold Rush of 49 resulted in many deaths. Over 100,000 people ended up dying because of the gold rush. Because of this, the California Gold Rush has proven violent. According to History.com, they showed that the causes of murder, discrimination, and rape has gone higher due to the Gold Rush and that the American Miners killed over 100,000 people with, “During the Gold Rush, violence against foreign miners increased, with beatings, rapes and even murders becoming commonplace” (History.com). The writer shows that the immigrants who arrived in California have faced severe murders and discrimination. One thing they prove is how murder was extremely common...
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...Water Use in California Everyone in America knows that California is in a severe drought, but how we got in a drought? A lot of a people blame it on how us Californians are ignorant people who don’t know how to preserve anything, others blame it on how it doesn’t rain here? Well it’s a little bit of both and other reasons affect it as well. Although the use of water has benefited the businessmen,cities,and farmers it has also severely harmed the the environment and Native Americans. The use of our water has helped farmers feed twenty five percent of our Americans. Yet, they have been given most of our water as Document 3 states. “... eighty percent of California surface water supports agriculture, largely...
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...A mission is a religious settlement used for turning people into neophytes for a new religion. In the case of the Spanish mission chain, it was used to turn Native Americans into Christians. A mission had padres who would perform religious tasks and teach the Native Americans Christian ways. Usually, the padres did this by having them worship their god and do the tasks that the Spanish needed to do to keep the mission chain thriving.The missions began in California when Russian pelt hunters started getting closer to the coasts of California. The Spanish perceived them as a threat and built the missions for security and territorial conquest. The Mission San Francisco de Asis, also known as Mission Dolores, was founded on June 29, 1776, by Father...
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...Native American Indians Tina Green-Burress HIS/145 November 10, 2014 Danny Scott Native American Indians There is no doubt that our history books have left out a great deal of information about American people and their lives, many black authors have tried to tell the true story of African Americans. But we must not forget American is a melting pot and Native American Indians played an important part in American history. The 1960s brought on changes for Native Indians in America and where they have come from and where they are now cannot be overlooked in American history. From the Beginning "Somewhere, these young men started the American Indian Movement. And they came to our reservation and they turned that light on inside. And it's getting bigger, now we can see things" an Oglala (ElderRedhawk (2002). The elder spoke of three men from the Minneapolis-St. Paul in 1968. The men were Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and George Miller, and they were responsible for founding AIM (American Indian Movement). The men were an activist American Indian group concerned with the civil rights of American Indians. These three Ojibwa ex-cons were tired of the poverty and despair their fellow brothers and sisters were going through. Though Indians have always been thought of as a peaceful people, you can only get pushed so much until something is done. In the 1960s and 1970s American Indians became more aggressive with the civil rights movement taking place...
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...In light of Reverence video gave firsthand accounts of the Winnemem Wintu tribe of Northern California. The narrator gives detailed examples of how Winnemem Wintu tribe of Northern California had been living and worshiping the land south of mount Shasta for over one thousand years. This land was part of their religion and sacred. The Winnemem Wintu tribe of Northern California tribe uses sacred spots along the Mccloud River as part of the spiritual being for their doctor. These lands are now patrolled by white society these areas making it impossible the example of white culture taking the area in the file was how group where pushing to put a ski resort on mount Shasta waste will contaminate the springs and bring outsiders to their sacred church site. The Native Americans want to preserve the land and its natural beauty, not make money off it....
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...Mexican-American War The Mexican-American War was fought between the United States and Mexico between 1846 and 1848, and it was marked the first American military battle to be fought on foreign soil. The Mexican American War was mainly driven by the idea of “Manifest Destiny”; the belief that the Americans had a God-given right, based on racial superiority, to spread across the Pacific Ocean (Chavez 2). The motives that were really behind Manifest Destiny was the acquisition of new territory, and the Americans wanted territories which were relatively uninhabited by people they considered inferior. As Americans wandered in search of land towards the west, the reality that the majority of those lands had occupants living in them got overlooked. President Polk shared and guided the dream of manifest destiny, and offered to purchase some territory of Mexico. His aim was to convince Mexicans to get into a negotiation and surrender a portion of their land to America .However, the refusal of the offer by the Mexican government and the unbending of the Polk to populate the area resulted in tension in the two nations. President Polk told the congress that blood had been shed, and he provoked war with Mexicans. With the end of the Mexican War, the United States absorbed one third of that nation’s total area. Even though American’s gained a considerable amount of land, it created great political sectionalism in America. The Mexican American War was for the most part determined...
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