Northwest uprising was during the spring of 1885. It was fought by the Metis militants, their Aboriginal allies, Louis Riel, and the Canadian government in what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta. The uprising was caused by the way the Metis and the natives were treated. The Metis had established their settlement near the Saskatchewan river when the land surveyors appeared on their farms preparing to take their land away from them. For the Metis it looked like they were kicking them out of their land
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Equality for all persons comes slow due to the predisposed notions created in respect to the social and physical differences of the fellow man and how they are viewed by others. Particularly pertaining to women and Native Americans during the colonization of North America. These assessments, coupled with the technological advantage of the colonists, created a hierarchy capped by the European settlers. Activist authors, like Catherine Maria Sedgwick, wrote novels that take place under the control
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back to the United States seizing control of Native American land. During seminar, we discussed how it’s hard to argue America isn’t an empire if you look at it from the Native Americans point of view. Americans spread through the country taking the land from the natives and making it theirs. For example, the Comanche’s had a great land holding, spreading in present day Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico in the 1840s, but after the Americans came and conquered, there wasn’t much left
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Pocahontas was the only one in her tribe willing to learn English. Even when Pocahontas was 12, she was curious and helpful to both the tribes and the colonists of Virginia. The Indian Princess was a very important person in her key roles. For instance, she was the daughter of Chief Powhatan of the powhatan tribes. Chief Powhatan had many daughters, but Pocahontas was his favorite daughter. She helped with the negotiations between the colonists and the Powhatan tribes as a result of learning English
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Even though many American Indians are working hard to keep their culture alive, I still believe that their culture has a high chance of being forgotten. Many indigenous cultures, many First Nations groups, have already been forgotten. Although the Jews may have survived the holocaust and kept their religion, it was because there were people fighting for the Jews whereas no one is fighting for the First Nations. The Beothuk people were one group of First Nations once abundant throughout Newfoundland
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Throughout Cache Valley’s early history before 1900 one has the ability to not only learn more about the exploration and migration of Cache Valley, but one obtains the opportunity to understand the development and settling of Cache Valley’s cities and towns. While studying Cache Valley’s history, many accounts record and share the settling of different towns such as Wellsville, Logan, and Richmond. These early pioneer towns in Cache Valley while each crucial to the growth and development of the valley
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Isabella. Columbus stole the gold from the natives to bring back to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Christopher Columbus spread diseases across the new land that the Indians had never seen before. Columbus spread Malaria, Mumps, he also spread the deadly Whooping Cough. The natives had no idea on how to fight these deadly and painful diseases so these diseases wiped out every 1 in 3 natives. Christopher Columbus was a slaver. He forced the natives to mine gold for him . He made his sea crew
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Zebulon Montgomery Pike was an American brigadier general and explorer. Pikes Peak in Colorado is named after Zebulon Pike. He was a United States Army captain in 1806 to 1807. Pike also led the Pike Expedition. During the pike expedition, he was sent out to explore and document the southern Louisiana territory and to find where the headwaters of the Red River were, during which he recorded the discovery of what later was called Pikes Peak. The Pike Expedition traveled through Colorado because his
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The lives of the plain Indians were positively affected by the technological development and government actions in the latter half of the 19th century, due to the simulation of Plain Indians in American culture in the reservation. However, the government funded transcontinental railroads; removal of Indians on to reservations, the encouragement for colonization in the west had catastrophic effect, and the effects and conflicts due to assimilation. Therefore, the negative impact by technological development
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It all began in 1862, Settlers flooded the Dakota’s land, trying to push the Dakotas out and destroying everything in their path. The settlers took over their land and left the Dakota to starve and freeze. The settlers told the Dakota tribe that if they moved to their land they would pay them a large sum of money, so with no hesitation the tribe agreed to the deal and moved. Soon after the Dakota would learn the agreement was a scam. The leader of the tribe Little Crow decided to take action and
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