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.
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. Overall the wars and massacres was a major impact on both the Native American Indians and aboriginal people. Loss of land was another
Colby's friends had been warning him for some time that they did not like the way Colby had been behaving. But after Colby did something, his friends decided that he should be hanged. They tried to rationalize their decision by saying that they, ".... had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far." (Barthelme, 1973, pg. 194) His friends would not listen to Colby's argument that, "Going too far was something everybody did sometimes."
The Wampanoag tribe saw these pilgrims as pitiful, sickly men and women invading their homeland. Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader, at first wanted to kill these European immigrants. After observing these people, he decided that his tribe would benefit from a relationship with the settlers. In 1621, Massasoit and a few of his men traveled into the Pilgrim’s settlement. Edward Winslow volunteered to be a hostage to the Wampanoag tribe; he invited the men into Plymouth, the Pilgrim village.
Martin Luther King gave many speeches about racism and how people should not be judged by the colour of their skin, but on the basis of their character. Days later after he presented some of his speeches, his relatives’ houses were lit on fire and were completely destroyed by rebellions. His relatives begged him to stop but he did not listen but continued and kept persevering. Since Louis Riel had given the Provisional Government permission to arrest and kill Thomas Scott, he was labelled as a criminal and was issued a warrant
This disease killed tens of thousands of Indians in the New World. Syphilis was the most deadly disease for the Europeans. This was a disease that was transmitted sexually. This was most common with sailors who went long periods of time without women. So once they touched down on land they would contract this disease.
The Tsar lost popularity for many reasons between 1905 and 1914. Firstly, the 1905 revolution, where his men open fired at peaceful protesters, killing and wounding thousands. This lost him support from nearly the whole country, as he was blamed for his men killing the petitioners. No matter how big the country is, it affected all the people of Russia, as friends, family and loved ones were killed. Secondly, the fact that he introduced the Duma, but gave them near to no power, contributed to him becoming so disliked.
In the novel ‘Montana 1948’ we see that Wesley Hayden is forced to choose between family loyalty and justice. He has to determine whether to arrest his brother Frank, for molesting and abusing Indian women, or whether he should remain silent and stick to family loyalty. The weight of this decision becomes extremely stressful for Wesley. The death of the Indian women ‘Marie Little Soldier’ is the final straw for Wesley, so he locks up Frank until he finds enough evidence to arrest him. Ultimately this resulted in Frank’s suicide.
His famous conspiracy of death “to be or no to be”, was a questionable outsource for a lot of people. Hamlet faced relative problems, as he followed his beliefs which took him to the murder of his uncle who had a sexual affair with Hamlet’s mother and who is a widow after her husband’s death. Therefore, all of this occurred only but for recognition, his words and quotes were spoken for no reason with no imagery and without any sense. He spoke for the rights of innocent people and gave his life for his freedom of speech. Was imprisoned for 27 years, till he got out and took over the leadership of his country.
After his people rob him of all the money he has received from the “white man” in order to feed their alcoholism, he is also cannibalized when they steal his wooden leg. He represents the Indian people themselves and how they have participated internally in the crumbling of their own community. Bobby is regularly concerned about who is related to whom. He also has a dream of being sober 4> There are three generations of Indians in this play, and the characters that represent them are depicting the most destructive elements of their own generation. The elders, Howard and Ethel, are the first ones to rob Bobby, suggesting the elder generation relying on the efforts and losses of the next.