A massacre means the unnecessary, indiscriminate killings of a large number of human beings or animals. This battle is obviously not just a battle but a massacre. This battle killed many innocent people unnecessarily. This killed many for no reason. This is the “Massacre of Wounded Knee”.
Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn resulted in Custer and his men being ambushed by Indians (Doc. 10). This was one of the few instances where the Americans suffered a considerable amount of casualties. The U.S. Government was able to carry out their atrocities by dehumanizing the Plains Indians. Many whites thought of them as beasts and romanticized their slaughter (Doc.
As time passed by, the American frontier floated into history, and the myths of the west firmly held to the imagination of Americans. To explain how the West was won and make it pleasant to everybody, the American government used the term manifest destiny (God’s will to expand the land) and an assimilation process to make Native Americans civilized. American popular culture widely characterized Native Americans as discomfort and ambivalence to the general people of America. As the United States worked to destroy the Native Americans life, they created way to glorify and romanticize their traditional culture to explain Whites’ imperialist past. Today, it is possible for somebody who does not know about Native American history may have mixed feelings about them
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 a nation, America should be proud of the first people that lived there, and should embrace Native Americans as a part of our history. However, this has not always been the way that America looks at Native Americans, as this country went through a time in the late 19th century when we wanted to eradicate their entire population, and take all their land for ourselves and our westward expansion. Because of these selfish, inhumane ideas, terrible things like The Trail of Tears happened, and if Indian tribes were not being killed, they were being converted by force. One of the things that suffered along with the Native American cultures and tribes, was their languages. These beautiful, sophisticated
148), the movement staged many protests against prejudiced Indian rights leading up to the siege at Wounded Knee. Wounded Knee was a rebellion of the extension of the White government control, by the Indians. The Whites established a government and military quickly after the colonisation of America that pacified the Indians in order to gain control of resources. This is the natural order of colonisation and with this idea combined with the fact that these Indians were educated (as by decree of the very same government), this caused the uprising against their White oppressors by the Indians, (Bodley, 1999, p.60). It seemed a disaster waiting to happen.
And in this case, the person who is selected to be stoned. In The Lottery, Tessie Hutchinson is chosen among hundreds of people in the town gathering. She is put to the center and stoned to death by the towns people. This is mainly due to the villages tradition and yearly ritual, to kill a human being by stoning them to death, showing a great deal of inhumane treatment. The lives of the people in the town are basically jeopardized due to this yearly ritual, the “lottery”.
The reservations were not set on the best land; those were given to white Americans. These grounds could not be harvested and due to corruption settlers driving them even further away into smaller reservations constantly invaded them. Continuous struggles continue to cause the Indian’s numbers to dwindle and their culture to almost vanish. The main standard of living as a tribe that has greatly helped them to survive was now being replaced by the individualism of new American ideals. In accordance with the Native Nations website, one example of the terrible conditions the Indians had to live under the U.S government and the reservations took place in May of 1868 when at the Bosque Redondo Reservation two-thousand Indians perished and
Western Civilization leads in categories of politics, economics, science and technology and in each category the West gained efficiency and effectiveness. It is seen by many people that Columbus used his power to conquer the people of the new world and commit genocide and slavery but at the same time Columbus brought knowledge to these people and enabled them to become as powerful as Western Civilization. Over time, Western Civilization has faced adversity but like Columbus, they have done whatever was necessary to keep expanding Western influence. The article also clarifies the debate over Columbus because it shows that Columbus cannot be looked at as good or bad; Columbus has to be looked at as an admiral, who took necessary action in the new world to keep Western Civilization on top. If Columbus had not taken the actions that he did, the people of the new world may have overthrown him and the western influence and that could have changed the world as we know it forever.
Discussion: George Santayana said in his book, Reason in Common Sense, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." This quote was also used by Winston Churchill and various other historical persons. The West was once thought of just as a place where the sun sets, but in reality it means a lot more. Western civilization has been developed by the combining of very different cultures. This mixing of cultures has been done through trade, more wars than can be counted and social interactions.