Luke is a Vietnam veteran who has survived the war but is having trouble surviving the peace on a reservation where everyone is broke and where the tribal government seems to work against the interests of the reservation folk. One poem, specifically “1854-1988,” talks about the time when the Chippewa tribe leaders betrayed the tribe by selling their land. As mentioned previously, 1854 was the year that the LaPointe Treaty was signed and the Chippewa indians were forced onto reservation. The feeling of being forced away from home and everything familiar is unimaginable. On top of that, being betrayed by
Cardinal Altamirano, also referred to as his Eminence, was chosen to go visit Father Gabriel’s mission with the intention of shutting it down so the Portuguese could gain that land for colonization. Cardinal Altamirano saw how real and productive the missions where, but he had to shut them down because of political pressure. Don Cabeza is the Spanish governor who teams up with the Portuguese general to shut down the Guarani mission. The Guarani Native Americans were a tribe that lived in the South American jungle before they were converted to Christianity by Father Gabriel and other Jesuits. Very few Guarani Native Americans survived the attack on their mission.
When His tribe was pushed farther west by white settlers, Tecumseh became angry and took many raids to against whites on the frontier. With the idea of an Indian Confederation, he proposed that all the tribes should stick together and refused to sell land to whites unless all the tribes agreed. The large tribal confederation had known as the Wabash Confederacy that tried to repel the American settlers from their region.
In 1519, Cortes explored the Yucatan coastline. Cortes captured the natives. The native people possessed little of value, they told Cortes of the great treasures of the Aztec Empire. Cortes moved his troops northward and conquered the port of Vera Cruz. Finally, he convinced the native tribes to fight with him against the Aztecs.
There had been several other wrecks during this voyage, where each time, the crew was diminished by lack of food and water and cold weather conditions. When the remaining crew landed on the Texas coast, the first encounter was a rather peaceful one. The Karankawa Indians that found the Spaniards were not a hostile group and brought food and aid to the desperate men. This would not be the situation when the Spanish attempted to travel west looking for food and help. They encountered other Indians that would attempt to place some of all of the men in captive as slaves of course, until they would escape repeatedly and regroup again looking for any sign of civilization.
For example, Juan de Zaldivar, mastre de campo of the expedition in 1598, and his men were defeated at the hands of the Acoma after the Acoma refused to pay tribute to the Spanish. Knaut also expresses Pueblo resistance to cultural hegemony throughout
Sherman wanted permission for white emigrants to cross the Indian lands as well as for permission to build three forts on the Bozeman Trail. Red Cloud of the Oglala announced that no such concession would be made especially since he had seen soldiers marching off to build the forts before they even had permission, as they wanted him to accept the decision to allow emigrants to settle on the last of the great Sioux hunting grounds. He angrily broke off the talks and stormed off, and vowed to defend the territory and shut down the trail, when he was unable to reach agreement with the army negotiators, he resorted to sending out war parties that attacked emigrants and army patrols. These hit and run tactics were difficult for the army to deal with and at the time the Indians arrived on the scene of the attack, the war parties had disappeared. Fort Phil Kearny was one of three forts on the Bozeman trail connecting the Platte River with mines of Montana.
However, when they arrived on the island known today as Puerto Rico it had already been inhabited by the Taíno tribe for centuries. While the two groups tried to keep the peace, eventually that attempt ran out, leading to the Spaniards enslaving the Taínos. Taking away their rights and forcing them to perform hard labor such as; working in the gold mines, in thesugar or ginger industry or performing domestic work. Due to this, many Taínos committed suicide out of resistance or became victims of the small pox disease that the new settlers had brought over. This unfair treatment eventually led to the attempted revolt of 1511 and the escape of many Taínos.
Their new guide, Hawkeye, was Nathaniel Poe, a white man adopted by Chingachgook, a Mohican and raised with Uncas as a son. These three lead the women to their father, but when they arrived at the fort they found it under siege by the French. Munro met with the French General, who showed him an intercepted message from Webb in which the general refused to send aid to the fort. After many days of being under siege and with no one coming to his aide, Munro surrendered to General Montcalm’s generous terms. The terms were that the men and their families were offered safe passage to Albany on the condition that they no longer fight in the war.
This was because government failed to provide the basics, such as food, for the citizens during the time of famine. This is what had caused the rebels to attack the government once again. The best Ming troops were later deployed along the Great Wall of China to protect the city from being invaded by any more rebels. Soon the Manchurians had come into play, and had offered the Ming commander the service to help drive out the rebels that had already invaded the city. The main problem to be faced was that once the rebels had been dispersed from the capital, the Manchurians refused to leave, and this had caused the Ming to move further down South.