Since the start of The United States of America the colonists and later Americans had to deal with the Natives that were rightfully there first. The federal government’s diplomacy approach with Native Americans during the time periods of 1790 to 1880 and 1880 to 1900 differ in a few ways. During the period of 1790 to 1880 the government participated it removals‚ treaties‚ reservations‚ and even war. In addition‚ the treaties and acts in this time period that the government approached with‚ usually
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Struggle The army also enlisted some American Indians as scouts or as soldier struggling to perform their duties A.1. Sand Creek A.1.a) John M. Chivington- U.S. Army colonel arrived at the camp with 700 Colorado volunteers A.1.b) Sand Creek Massacre-Attack by U.S Army troops in which some 200 peaceful Cheyenne were killed in Colorado A.1.c) To end the fighting the government created a peace commission A.1.d) The following year‚ in a second Treaty of Fort Laramie‚ the Sioux agreed to move to
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Indian Wars were series of conflicts between white settler or government of United States and Native Americans. Conflicts started almost immediately after settlers begun to move to the North America and ended in the early 20th century. During this time all the Native Tribes were one by one moved to the reservation where a lot of them live until today. They had to change the way they lived and their culture was almost destroyed. They weren’t prepared for this change and today’s Native Americans have
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Minnesota in 1862 to try and gain lands back lost from land cessions. In a massacre‚ the Dakota managed to kill 500 settlers and Lincoln decided by sending troops from the Civil War to fight the Dakota’s. The Union ended up winning after 6 weeks. 400 were tried and 40 were set to be hung until the missionaries decided to fight for them and had that number reduced to 38‚ the largest hanging in history. Sand Creek Massacre‚ November 29‚ 1864 Gold was found on Cheyenne territory in CO. People tried
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Life was difficult for the Native Americans during the westward expansion of white settlers one example of this was the Indian Removal Act. This act was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28‚ 1830 gave Federal government the power to move any Native tribe‚ resulting in 5 major Natives tribes being forcibly relocated. Then using the Indian Removal Act 12‚000 Cherokee were forced to move out of their land during winter causing 4‚000 Cherokee deaths due to hunger‚ cold and disease. Another example
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most informative and vivid of all the tales in my opinion. The stories she recounted of the massacre at Wounded Knee really gave me a full understanding of what really happened there. There is a vast discrepancy in the version I learned in history class when I was a child versus what Celane described and what I now know to be fact. It was amazing to me that her grandfather‚ Dewey Beard was present at Wounded Knee and passed down the story from generation to generation in such detail. Her ancestry is
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Native American Indians. Yet another influential event‚ The American Indian Movement staged a protest at Wounded Knee‚ South Dakota. The protest was an effort to raise political awareness about the condition of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation (Rich 70). In her article‚ “Remember Wounded Knee‚” Rich states‚ “Wounded Knee came to stand for simply the site of the 1890 Big Foot massacre in which many of the Big Foot’s people died‚ running from the advancing
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western South Dakota. His was part of Wahpenton and Mdewakanton Dakota tribe rather than Oglala Lakota and took pride in being Native. Upon his arrival‚ he experienced a disastourous dust storm and later would come across the aftermath of a massacre. The massacre was due to altercations of warfare on the northern Plains. The tribes consisted of the following: the Lokotas who were known as the Sioux from the western portion and the Dakotas who were known as the mdewakantons‚ Sisseton‚ Wahpekute‚ and
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Personal Essay Black Elk Speaks Before reading Black Elk Speaks I thought that Native Americans were all the same they fought wars and rode around on horse. They either won or lost the wars they fought in and they all lived in teepees. I really didn’t have much knowledge on them. I’ve always know that they had a very deep spiritual connection to nature and their world around them but I didn’t know the reasons why. Before reading I didn’t think about things as much like the world and animals; I
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When the battle of Wounded Knee happened – which cannot really be called a battle‚ but more a bloody massacre – the Indians were not doing anything that could have been considered attacking the white men‚ or even controversial. They were doing a ghost dance‚ because they were fearful about what the white men were
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