After watching the documentary on the Trail of Tears I have come to the conclusion that what the Americans did to the Cherokee Indians is heartless, selfish, and cruel. Men, women, and children were taken from their land and herded to makeshift forts with very little food and warm clothes. They were stripped of everything they owned and stood for. They couldn’t do anything about it for fear of being killed. I believe that what happened in the 1830s was evil.
As the Indians were forced to leave the land white people just came over and took part of the land that belong to the reservation and there was nothing the Indians could do about it. The discovery of gold made matters even worst as Americans came across the land looking for fortune in large numbers and in the process destroyed the land and the ecosystem. Their vast numbers drove away the bison herds and forced them to change their emigration patterns, which made it a lot more difficult for the Indians to sustain themselves. In addition to being forced to move to small reservations they were put on rationed food and supplies from the U.S government and to change their culture all against their will. The reservations were not set on the best land; those were given to white Americans.
In 1609 John Ratcliffe is captured and killed by Indian women. Colonist were afraid to leave and hunt in fear that they would be attacked by the Indians. As retaliation in 1613 Pocahontas is captured and held as a prisoner by the Colonist. She converted to Christianity and was trded back to her people in exchange for food. By 1622 The Indian Massacre occurred and they Indians killed over 300 colonist.
In today’s world the biggest act of dehumanization is the tens of thousands of children that have been taken away from their families to become soldiers. This is led by Joseph Kony , he and his army (Lord’s Resitance Army) are taking children and telling them to kill their parents so they don’t have
He also learns that his grandfather was a dominating, immoral and scheming. David and his parents went face to face with dealing with the consequences of Frank’s crime. Racial prejudice means any action practice or belief that reflects the racial world view the ideology that humans are divided into separate groups because of their skin colour. The American Indians are racially prejudiced by most of the people in Montana, they are going through a hard life and living in a desolate reservation; also their lands are probably the least valuable compare to other regions. David eventually learns of the racial discriminations such as not allowing “an athlete like Ronnie” to attend college.
The stolen generation The stolen generations devastated many people, Caused families to be torn apart, made the aboriginals culture and beliefs lost and many families still are torn apart and many cant Why and who were taken? The stolen generation is a large group of people that were taken from their families in the twentieth century. The aboriginals that were taken away were all had “white blood.” They were taken to make them a working class and they were assimilated, which meant * Speaking their language and practicing their customs was forbidden. * They were taken miles away from their home land which meant they wouldn’t find their totems. * The children were told they were orphans.
Most ex-athletes are slaughtered or sold to slaughter houses because they were not collecting income or were worn out and was physically unable to do anything anymore. Many other species of horses are being sent to slaughter houses such as mothers that are pregnant, general old horses, and horses that are injured. Many horses were abused and even murdered just to be able to be sent to a slaughter house; because of this face the United States has passed a law about animal
The introduction of the Indian Removal Act saw numerous tribes displaced from their ancestral homes time and time again, and while the rest of America prospered, they were forced onto small plots of land, and not even formally recognised as citizens of their own country. The buffalo which they depended on were slaughtered, causing widespread starvation, and every time they retaliated against this appalling treatment it only served to further reinforce unfair stereotypes which still haunt them to this day. Hopefully, by examining the mistakes of the past, people will avoid repeating them in the
Government soldiers killed 300 Sioux women, children, and men. The Indians who assimilated in order to survive were “whitemanized.” Crow Dog’s mother was sterilized (without her permission). Crow Dog writes of how she wishes she could “purge it out.” She was referring to her own white blood. In addition to her own internal struggles, Crow Dog writes about the oppression of Native Americans. According to Crow Dog (1991), “the fight for our land is at the core of our existence, as it has been for the last two hundred years.
The massacre of 1890, in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, this is where the U.S. Cavalry took our warriors, women and children and had them slaughtered, so much devastation to my people back then. My people were now under the siege of the U.S. Government. The Government wanted to relocate my people and take them from their homes, they could not practice their customs or speak are native language. Our children were also taken from us and sent to school in hopes that they might be able to “civilize” them. They didn’t want our children to know of our