of their weapons and guaranteed their survival only if they converted to Christianity. The Wampanoag surrendered their weapons. The colonists’ strength tremendously increased. They had recently attacked and defeated the Pequot tribe, one of the strongest and largest tribes in New
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The myth ¨A Blackfoot Legend¨ came from the tribe named Blackfoot (siksika). They got the name for the dark colored moccasins they wore.They lived on the Great Plains of Montana and Canadian provinces. The tribe originally came from Asia and later moved to northern Montana. The Blackfoot people still live there today, a total of around 25,000. Blackfoot is a common Native American group. One of the most common chiefs was Crowfoot, who lead the people in Canada during the 19th century. He created
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The Choctaw Tribe of North America was, and still is, a widespread tribe. Their tribe name, the Choctaw, was derived from the Creek term “chate” or “red”. Around the time of 900 c.e., these Indians learned how to cultivate their staple crop of corn. There is a legend about the arrival of the Choctaws in their native land, and another about how corn came to be. The customs and beliefs greatly resemble those of very far-off lands. However, most of these cultural ideas were crushed when Spanish explorer
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The Trail of Tears is a phrase known to define the forceful expulsion of the five civilized Native tribes, away from their traditional lands and forced migration to new Indian ground which was west of the Mississippi River. These tribes were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and the Seminoles. When Andrew Jackson was elected president in the year 1828, the Natives soon became a part of the next racial targeting. President Andrew Jackson encouraged the expulsion; the Congress authorized this
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The majority of Torontonians are ghastly unaware of the aboriginal settlements in their own city. The Native tribes of the Great lakes region were living relatively peacefully until the interjection of European colonizers. Along with currency and market trades, the Europeans brought another attribute, which was deadly. “…It was estimated that approximately 65,000 Iroquoian people lived in the area and that about fifty percent of these died as a result of the introduction of European diseases”
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YAKIMA/KLICKITAT FISHERY PROJECT (30 points) 1.1 (4 points) Who are the Columbia River Treaty Tribes (list them), are where are each located geographically? Nez Perce-Idaho, Tribes of the Umatilla-Far North East Oregon, Tribes of Warm Springs-Mid NE Oregon, Tribes of Yakama Nation-Parts of Washington and Idaho. 1.2 (4 points) What are ceded lands? How do the ceded lands give the Treaty Tribes legal authority to manage salmon fisheries on the Columbia? (3-4 sentences) Ceded lands are lands
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counselor if the former chief wasn’t there) and picking a bead out of a covered bowl. It was the start of a time when I began making more decisions for myself. The drawing ceremony would determine the tribe I would be placed in. The tribes separated camp into two parts, the Caddo tribe and the Tejas tribe. I had been hoping and hoping that I would choose
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owner and savages, they were regarded for only the bad qualities of their civilization and often exaggerated by the hating Europeans Defining civilization in both the art of living in cities, and being able to satisfy the needs of the culture and tribe of the native Americans, in both prospects native Americans were “civilized”. So were Europeans- they needed gadgets, and they made gadgets, and it was a need of their culture and most of them would be pretty useless for native Americans Indians
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When this came into effect, the Indians were forced off the land to which they called home. It was not an easy task to remove them but after many lives were lost due to the Europeans forcing the Indians off their land, they decided to move their tribes west. This move was not an easy one as they were faced with sickness, poverty and battles that the white man brought towards the Indians. There were many wars that involved the Indians to which many lives were lost. From the French-Indian War to
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In the article “Chaos in Darfur on Rise as Arabs Fight With Arabs”, the two tribes Terjem and the Mahria are fighting each other in South Darfur. The battle started in December, when the mahria migrated with their camels through Terjem territory near the Bulbul River. The article states that their partnership of Fur Land broke down last year which made the situation worse and led to harsh violence. The conditions have gotten to a point where traveling by road has also become dangerous. One of the
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