The idea of civilization in the United States is another factor that contributed to a long road of conflict. These two factors was the beginning to a long road to greater conflict between the Native Americans and white people as the government tried to rejoin the Confederacy with the Union to create one country. The Great Plains was reserved for the Native Americans before and during the Civil War by the United States government. Because it was the era of the steel plows, railroads and the Union victory, the Americans felt they had the power to incorporate the Great Plains into the United States that they were trying to rebuild. The Native Americans were outraged by the white people trying to take their land that was set aside for them.
From these two videos, I have a better understand of American Indian history overview. Especially from video Pride 101, Dr. Duane Champagne mentions the removal policy of Native Indians, and because of the policy, the tribes have to move from Southeast to Oklahoma. These two videos show audiences a long history and policy about American Indians and how struggled they had been through in a native land. After I finished from these two videos, I can see many parallels between the struggles the Native American Tribes and my people encounter dealing with the U.S. Government “You can never be part of Indian. You are or you are not.
After reading three different articles on King Philip’s War, including a Wikipedia article, the articles were all comparable for the most part. All of the articles described why the tensions between the colonists and the Indians began. The tensions began because of the Wampanoag’s dependence upon English manufactured goods that led to increased land sales. The increased land sales created tension and resentment among the Indians toward the colonists.2 The articles showed the two parties battling each other with heavy colonial causalities at the beginning of the war. As the war progressed, the articles agree that the colonists used their sea power and trading power among other towns to wear down the Indians and win the war.
In 1838, the US army forced the Cherokees from their homelands in the Trail of Tears into Indian Territory. As people moved west and Western Movement pushed on, more and more Indians were removed and eventually they were nearly annihilated from America. Western Movement is often given the stereotype by Americans as a glorious expansion of our brilliant country into the lands of the setting sun. But, this vision is not true. American expansion caused more harm than good.
The Indians fought to keep their beautiful land and tribes and were sadly disappointed by the British. While the British fought to become the supreme European power of Europe and to conquer America. During this movie I was saddened to see how the Indians were betrayed because they really trusted that the British were going to help them keep their land and security if they help them fight a fight that killed many of their families and consequently what they once called Home. The British were were ambitious, manipulative people and did not stop fighting until the end for territorial and power. The British had a modern culture with higher technology , trade goods, clothing, and more distinguished culture than the Indians.
Americans relocated thousands upon thousands of Indians from their tribes and dwellings. When these types of things happened, it was necessary for the Indians to change their lifestyle along with their familiarized cultures and traditions. “Change moves relentless, the pattern unfolding despite their planning” (Line 34 Tremblay). This quote helps readers understand the carelessness that the settlers had on the Indians, as the Indians are saying “Change moved relentless” (Line 34, Tremblay) they had no other alternative but to move with the rapidly changing culture. A synonym for the word relentless is harsh or ruthless; nor of these words means anything good.
4. Why history is included in the curriculum? As the great philosopher G. Santayana once said, “those who do not understand history are destined to repeat it.” History teaches us not only facts but also the concept of self-examination of our own history, behaviors and proclivities. History teaches us that those in power tend toward corruption and that those who possess absoloute corruption. History teaches us that long,drown out,protracted wars accomplish little,other than mass suffering, and tend to bleed all nations (involved in such wars) of their treasure,often setting them back decades, or even centuries.History teaches us that if we do not
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown is a book that describes the cruel details in which Indians were driven off their lands by the whites from the Indians point of view. Dee Brown’s focus is to tell the stories often narrated by the American Indians themselves that were rarely written or talked about in our history. His intent is to reveal their side of the story as it came from their eyes and their own pain. In many instances Brown quotes the Native Americans showing and expressing how little by little they were driven away from their own lands. The book begins mainly by narrating the initial relationship of the white man to the Indian in the early American years, from Christopher Columbus and the arrival of the pilgrims to the early 1800s.
Westward expansion occurred through the U.S. citizens existing beliefs of superiority over Native Americans and rights to western land this ideology was promoted by the federal government which led to the displacement and killing of Native Americans and the purposeful impairment and alienation of native culture. Existing beliefs held by American citizens about Native Americans and the Western Land they occupied were further endorsed by the federal government which led to the institutional displacement and killing of Native Americans. Document B explains the unprovoked killing of Native Americans in a camp two hundred miles from the post of United States troops. The U.S. Indian Agent reports of a massacre of mostly women and children Native
“It will be a place dense and civilized population now occupied with savage hunters” (Source C). Andrew Jackson Presented this statement to congress when he was trying to pass the Indian Removal Act. This is not entirely true the Indians were just doing what they had been doing for many, many years. The Indian removal Act is genocide and is looked over by so many people as not a big deal, but it is a huge deal. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) is trying to get many sports teams to change from using Indians as they’re Mascot.