By doing the Ghost Dance, the Indians were asking for protection. The dance scared the whites and was violently suppressed. The whites were threatened by the tribe and wanted to arrest the chief. They also wanted to disarm the warriors. The process was a very tense disruption that lasted for months.
The term ghost is from the belief that ancestors were going to be resurrected. The dance looked like people dancing around in a frenzy, speaking in tongues, falling to the ground, a lot of emotions, and they would talk of a different, better tomorrow. The messianic movement started in the late nineteenth century and took place in the Southwest and Great Plains. It was not a violent movement, it was a spiritual movement. Wovoka had a vision of a better day and Native Americans followed him and his visions in hope for a better tomorrow.
But after abit of time the death of people began to increase rapidly. Wars and massacres is an impact also experienced by Indians in North America. The most tragic war of the Indians was the battle of the Wounded Knee. In this massacre there was a place in the Sioux community which was a very dangerous place for the Sioux people so big foot the Sioux chief decided to move to a safer place. One of the US soldiers orders the Sioux people to go back to their place HOWEVER one Sioux soldier didn’t want to go back and people started to fight back in a result 300 men including women and children were killed.
Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn resulted in Custer and his men being ambushed by Indians (Doc. 10). This was one of the few instances where the Americans suffered a considerable amount of casualties. The U.S. Government was able to carry out their atrocities by dehumanizing the Plains Indians. Many whites thought of them as beasts and romanticized their slaughter (Doc.
All the tribes seem to describe in their own story how the whites started to obliterate their religion, their culture and their way of life. As Brown portrays the changing Indian lives, he also brings to life their battles, battles that may have been forgotten by the American whites but never erased from the Indian hearts. Such battles include Little Crow’s War, sparked by the failing promises to the Indians to give them rations. This war was one of many where the Indians would lose, by being persecuted, hanged and executed merely for defending their lands and speaking up for their mistreatment. The book also illustrates the few battles won by the tribes, which would not only give them a
He burned their towns and crops and killed women and kids. Andrew Jackson view was that Jacksonian Democracy had no room for the Native Americans. But people consider Jackson an Indian hater. He fought against then during his military career. When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Indians fallowing then to keep land that the state of Georgia wanted Jackson.
Ghost Dance ~Background intro sentence- The ghost dance was a very important custom performed by many Indians during the 1880s through the 1890s Details 1) The ghost dance was a dance that tried to bring back the dead and bring back the old ways of the Indians. Dance that Indians thought would reunite them with friends and relatives in the ghost world. (Religious movement) 2) The Ghost dance plays a major role in Indian traditions. During the late 1800s it was invented by Wovoka in order to bring back ancestors to help defeat white men. 3) Indians were having a hard time dealing with white men because they were trying to push the Indians out of their land.
In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man,” (Pratt, 2004). This statement outlines what would become the intent of Native American boarding schools across the country, leading to massive cultural genocide. It was this institution that served as the model for boarding schools founded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as well as the hundreds of schools run by Catholic and Protestant missionaries. This idea of “kill the Indian, save the man” was forced upon
Indian Wars erupted due to tension between the settlers backed by the federal government who were encroaching upon native land and the Native Americans occupying this land. The result of this tension led to Indian Wars such as the Sioux Wars which contained events such as the Wounded Knee Massacre in which federal troops killed 300 Sioux men, women, and children and the killing of General Custer during the battle of Wounded Knee which caused public opinion to turn even more against Native Americans. As a result of these Indian Wars all Native American tribes were effectively put onto reservations. The purposeful impairment and alienation of native culture was strongly emphasized by actions taken and legislation passed by the federal government of the United States. In Document A, Santana, Chief of the Kiowas, describes the destruction of timber and killing of buffaloes by soldiers who sit in camps where his people have lived for generations.
The Nor’westers were worried that they could lose their fur supply and pemmican. In 1815 the Nor’westers tempted people to move to Upper Canada with offers of better land. The Earl of Selkirk quickly resettled the colony. Some tension between the nor’westers, with their allies the Metis, and the settlers led to violence. North West Company men and half-breeds now resorted to violence on a large scale, killing 22 in the massacre of Seven Oaks (June 19, 1816).