Body tattooing was common to both genders. The Winnebago’s named themselves the Ho-chunk. The Ho-Chunks are originally from the Illinois and Wisconsin by the Great Lakes. In the 19th century the U.S. government forced the Winnebago and Ho-chunk tribes to move their reservations west of Wisconsin to Minnesota, North Dakota and finally in Nebraska. Through these moves, many tribe members returned to previous homes.
For a while he worked for the government trying to help with Indian right, and settlement separation. The government was trying to take the land in the Black Hills from them for mining, but that land was sacred to the Indians. The motivation of the movie is the showing of Eastman’s childhood and him growing up to do everything he can to help the Indian tribes. This movie relates to the course because it shows the English settlers claiming this land to be their own when obviously there were already people here, and we covered people settling in the United Stated and the Indian Laws and Territories. Charles Eastman: Main Character, He was a Doctor who was once part of the Sioux Indian tribe.
The Ipperwash crisis was not just that fateful night about sixteen years ago, rather it was a certain point that stood out on a time line of struggles between the Stony Point natives and the Government. The man who died that night had an older brother named Sam George, and he perseverance like none other, as he pressed for the ancient land to be returned before Iperwash crisis, he tried to negotiate leading up to and after the crisis, and he filed a lawsuit against the Mike Harris Provincial Government. In 1943, Clifford George of Stony Point came home to nothing, and after "sleeping in a ditch" (Ch. 2) for the night he found out the populace had been moved within a day to rival Kettle Point reserve, a short distance away, as the Government, under the War Measures Act, was creating the a military base there, but promised land back. The Stony Pointers refused the offers but the Canadian Government appropriated them.
Fur trading was what drew non-Indians to our region and interestingly, the value of items was determined by beaver pelts: “Prices on an 1824 list from Spokane House ranged from "Scissors" for "½ beaver," to "American rifles" for "30 beaver" (Becher, 39). British guns went for 18 beaver, while "One good horse" cost two pelts. In turn, beaver skins sold in London for two to eight dollars a pound, or in China for four dollars a pelt.” Spokane House closed in 1821, when
US Steel – Andrew Carnegie sold Carnegie Steel in 1900 to a new steel corporation headed by JP Morgan US Steel. First billion dollar company, largest company in the world, owned over 3/5 of the nation’s steel industry 7. Federal Government Aid to RRs – Federal gov’t provided RR companies with huge loans and land grants (170+ acres of land), helped build a transcontinental RR during Civil War (Union Pacific + Central Pacific = Promontory Point), 4 other transcontinental RRs built. Panic of 1893 JP Morgan consolidated smaller RRs into large companies, essentially eliminated competition in RR industry 8. Andrew Carnegie and his Theories of Wealth – “Wealth” – essay arguing the wealth had a god given responsibility to care out charity to benefit society, put over $350M into support for libraries, universities, and other public institutions 9.
Some of the sites included were Four Lakes, Union Gap, Yakima, Cascade Mountains, Fort Benton, Fort Simcoe, Fort Walla Walla and the Walla Walla Valley. (Schuster, 56) The treaty stated that they wanted the Indians to give up millions of acres of land to the settlers. The making of the treaty was a conflict and problem for several reasons. The Indians did not the treaty and already knew that they would be put on a reservation with 40 or more tribes. They surely did not want to be on a small piece of land with an enemy tribe!
enemies during wartime. However, the “War of Terror” was never officially declared a war, making it void to use as a reason to convict Charles Schenk. What if the “War on Terror” was officially declared a war? In that case, it would be valid to charge Charles Schenck of violating the Espionage Act. This claim can be supported by the Debs v. United States case, which took time during World War I. Eugene V Debs held a speech praising those who refused to serve in the military and obstructed recruitment - as a result he was sentenced ten years in prison.
Secularization among the Missions was happening while Indian population was decreasing due to the “white mans disease”. Indians would run away and be hunted down by soldiers. Men and women were split up into separate dorms and forced to work 6 days of the week. The Indians freedom was delayed and so became a revolution. 10 years after the missions were disbanded the converted Native Americans formed new town and were considered to be loyal farmers and ranchers.
expended west. A war between the Sioux tribe and the American government. All of this had happened in Dakotas. Sitting Bull was the proud Lakota chief who refused to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land. “These are where my people lived before you whites first came.” Also, Charles Eastman was a young Dartmouth educated Sioux doctor, helped out as living proof of the alleged success or assimilation.
Rwanda Case study 27/5/08 JAC (Googleimages.com) Outline the factors that led to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Discuss he role of the United Nations peacekeepers throughout the ordeal. By Gregory Kourpanidis Introduction The Republic of Rwanda is a Small country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. It has an approximate population 0f 10,186,063 million. Rwanda supports the densest population in continental Africa, with most of the population engaged in subsistence agriculture.