Ever since the settlers began to settle in America the west was a desired land where they envisioned new opportunities and better living conditions. To the west of the Mississippi laid fertile land occupied by thousands of buffaloes and 250‚000 Indians which lived off the land and animals surrounding them. The American federal government had an enormous impact in the pushing of Indians off their land. To obtain this land the government would submit the indians to war‚ administer the sale of the lands
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Ethnic Groups and Discrimination Native Americans The ethnic group that I choose was Native Americans. I am of Caucasian descendant with Native American from my dad’s side. I really want to learn more about my heritage and family background. The Native Americans didn’t participate in discrimination; they were affected by people discriminating against them. The immigration of Indian American has taken place in several waves since the first Indian American came to the United States in the 1700’s
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The apotheosis and popularization of the American West has left an indelible and lamentable stain upon the historical record of the United States for both European and Native Americans. Moreover‚ this revisionist history has obfuscated the objective reality of the American West. Relations between European and Native Americans have been vexed by this miscarriage of justice all the way through the present era. In this fallacious and farcical narrative of rugged individual European Americans conquering
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World Culture’s Final Exam Terms Intro to the World 1. Cultural Conflict clash of different ways of life over scarce resources‚ religion‚ race‚ land‚ oil‚ water‚ power‚ etc 2. Cultural Relativism judge culture on their own standards and values 3. Culturally different one culture different from every other culture 4. Culture total way of life of someone 5. Diffusion mixing of different cultures from place to place 6. Ethnocentrism belief that ones own culture is superior to
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served with the FBI during the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee in which the 7th Calvary had massacred more than 200 mostly unarmed Native American old men‚ women‚ and children‚ simply because government agents incorrectly interpreted the Ghost Dance as an aggressive threat to non-Indians and called in the army. Berg reports that The women had thrown blankets over the children so that they would not see their executioners. This horrific and gratuitous massacre had left a haunting impression on the surviving
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The United States wanted to prevent hostility‚ so they tried to get the Indians to agree to living on reservations instead of on their homelands. For the rest of the following century they struggled to force the Indians to accept it‚ they failed to do so in the end and were forced to more desperate measures to clear the west for western settlement. The first policy was the Medicine Lodge Treaty‚ signed in Kansas‚ 1867. It divided the Great Plains into two huge Indian territories. In return for government
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The Trials and Tribulations of Sitting Bull and the Plains Sioux David Paul HIST3216 - First Nations in Canada: Historical Perspective Instructor: Daniel E. Shaule‚ M. A. Monday‚ April 8‚ 2013 The Sioux nation was a powerful proud nation which migrated and traveled over the Great Plains; their hunter gather lifestyle was encroached upon after the civil war in the United States. The Sioux were victimized socially politically and genocidal. The need to develop the western hemisphere of the United
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uncivilized violence. In Ohio‚ Native Americans formed a confederate to fight against the settlers since their pleas were muted by the US government. The Battle of Fallen Timbers pursued and Native Americans were forced off their land. At the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890‚ the US army shot and killed 300 (mostly unarmed) Indians as they had wanted to take away their guns on the reservation. With each battle‚ more Indians have fallen and more land is taken from
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1756-1763 French and Indian War 1750 1775 1763 Proclamation Line established 1763-1764 Pontiac’s Rebellion 1764-1765 Sugar Act and Stamp Act Controversies 1766 Declaratory Act 1767 Townshend Act‚ New York Assembly suspended 1770 Boston Massacre 1772 Committees of Correspondence formed 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 Coercive Acts‚ First Continental Congress convenes 1775 Revolution begins with fighting at Lexington and Concord 1775 1800 1776 Declaration of Independence 1777 British
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Battle of Wounded Knee. A.) The American Indians and the United States troops were involved in the Battle of Wounded Knee. B.) General Custer’s old regiment put together the Sioux and took them to Wounded Knee after sitting bull had died. The soldiers made the Native Americans give up their weapons and when one couldn’t find its weapon it had went off and shot out and they thought they were trying to arm so they fought and shot back at the Native Americans. The Battle of Wounded Knee ended the
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