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The predicament of the Native American Indians throughout history is devastated by many battles of relocation from one reservation to the next. One would perceive the Indians merely as puppets that were manipulated by white settlers. However, the Battle of the Little Bighorn was unique. Custer’s Last Stand has been a symbol of bravery, of folly, and of oppression.…
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 States, seen the lifestyle of the Sioux, as savage and a threat to settlers moving west. The government of the United States philosophy was that a good Indian was a dead Indian represented little hope of peace. Though peace treaties were inspired by the American government they held no validity and integrity as they were a means to eradicate the Sioux’s lifestyle. The American perspective in taming the west was to impose boundaries in the form of reservations on the Sioux and take away their freedom to hunt buffalo non-compliant Indians were deemed as hostile and classified an enemy of the United States, this ramification led into the Plains Indian wars.…
Through Reservation Life,” by David Treuer, there are distinct parallels of the four models as…
Already, based off the title, one can assume that a war is in the process of beginning. The second paragraph describes how the Americans have increased the number of Indian scouts by five-hundred men, meaning they are preparing for an Indian outbreak. Further into the article, Indian Commissioner Belt sent the following statement to the agents of the tribes in Dakota: "your attention is invited to the prevailing threatening excitement among the Sioux of North and South Dakota and some other Indian tribes connected with the 'Ghost Dance'... it is very important, in view of the tendency of such excitement to spread and obtain a general hold upon the Indians".2 One key word in the quote above is "threatening", meaning that the Americans felt threatened by the Indians, which is how the New York Times portrays the…
Aside from forced migration utilized as a method of getting rid of the Native Americans in what can only be described as a “land grab”, another alternative was simply to eradicate the race by means of genocide. After the annihilation of Gen. George Custer and his 7th cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn by Indians of the Sioux tribe in 1876, the 7th cavalry was rebuilt and returned to South Dakota where they massacred more than 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Educational, E. B. (2010). This was not an isolated incident. Throughout the Southwest, large numbers of Apache and Navajo tribe members were systematically slaughtered by soldiers of the U.S. Army and western settlers alike in the name of imminent domain or the power of a government to confiscate private land for public use. “The situation is compounded by such apparently willful early experiments in biological warfare…
Unfortunately, despite how precisely Indians followed white men’s laws and requirements, the Indian Removal would have eventually transpired. The Five Civilized Tribes shed their Indian traditions and culture to take on the Americans way of life. Indians not only adopted principles in government and agriculture, but also religiously. Despite all of this, whites still wanted to kick Indians out of their lands in order to bring profit to themselves. Even the national government could not terminate the Indian Removal. Through both the United States Constitution and Worcester v. Georgia, the national government declared that states could not operate the removal of Indians. All of this, illustrates the inhumanity and lack of compassion whites had…
The history presented here covers the defeat of the Plains Indians by the US Army, the violent change from nomadic life to life on the reservation, and the death of a culture as we watch it go from a way of life to a Wild West show to be presented in large cities.…
“Alarmed by the Ghost Dance Influence on Sioux reservations, Indian Bureau agents requested military assistance”(Infobase Learning). Their values and beliefs included practicing the Ghost Dance and not following the ways of the normal white man. When the government saw that this was happening they immediately sent over troops. “ On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull who they believed was a Ghost Dancer, and ended up killing him , increasing the tension ,and anger at Pine Ridge” (Wounded Knee, History.com). The police were sent to do the job of arresting the leaders and instead they got the wrong guy ,and killed him. Arresting the Indian leader was bad enough because they had no reason to and instead he ended up dead. Even if this was on accident they still have a right to be angry. There was a battle between the two sides before this and the United States lost. At the time the Indian people were not doing anything that went directly towards the United States government or soldiers in a bad way. This was not fair because they simply took advantage over them like they were nothing and did not have the right for their own values and beliefs. They were sent there to decrease tension for themselves and the outcome was increasing the tension for the…
if they have a strong core they will get up again” no one matter how…
People shouldn’t have control over others because of the abuse of the system (in this case, the government), and the deprivation of individual’s rights.…
After finding themselves devastated from being confined to reservations and dwindling numbers of buffalo, the Sioux tribe was left with little hope of as better future. They were desperate for any means to return them to their once great life of living free on their lands, undisturbed by the white race. By the 1890s, many took comfort in the preachings of a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Claiming himself as a Messiah, he encouraged performing what was known as the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance was meant to be a way of combating the white race by ensuring that they would perish from natural disasters. It also would protect the Indians that performed it, ensuring their survival by gaining the strength of their ancestors and the return of the wild game that once filled their land (Nash, 504). Many Indians of the Sioux latched onto these preachings and took part in Ghost Dances. They believed it truly would bring them a better future.…
In the years before the Wounded Knee Massacre the United States government continued to annex (or seize) the Indian's lands. This incited and spread the support of the Ghost Dance Spiritual Movement. According to the Ghost Dance’s teachings, Jesus Christ had returned to earth in the form of a Native American. He would “eradicate the disease” - in this case the white people, animals lead to extinction by the whites would return and the spirits of the…
Even after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful for the government to remove the Native Americans from their lands, President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the law resulting from the ruling. From this action, the US government forcibly removed around 16,000 Cherokees from their land and forced them to walk the Trail of Tears. Around 4,000 of them perished on the 2,200-mile journey; starting at the southwest to Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma. However, the terror didn’t end once they had been relocated against their will. Cultural Genocide was committed against them next, the government forced the married couples to remarry in western attire, cut their hair, and forced the children to attend a boarding school away from their families to learn how to speak and write in English. The government’s excuse for these violations was they were trying to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man,”. Due to the government’s cruel action towards the Native Americans; for kicking them off their land for selfish reasons, such as land for new settlers and the discovery or iron ores, and the cultural genocide they were the root cause of, this action in history can be identified as…
Black Americans, segregation, and slavery. Most of the people who have studied American history recognize the inhumane actions towards people of color during the 1960’s and 1980’s. Yet, people often are not aware of the similar acts perpetrated on the Native Americans during the same period of time. The Native Americans had to suffer their past of external shame imposed on their culture and tradition by the White American society, followed by a coercion of White American culture due to the government proposal of the “Indian problem.” Nevertheless, the Native Americans maintained their pride in their identity and culture internally, within their tribes, and carried out such acts as Ghost Dance, valuing their own tradition. While it may seem paradoxical, both shame and pride of culture and identity simultaneously resonate in Native Americans today as a means of letting go of the unpleasant past and moving on to the future with a new hope.…
India shows a variety of dances which can be seen in various parts of the country. These dances are performed differently and are an important aspect in Indian dance because they bring the past in the present by telling us about ancient Indian history. Besides entertainment these dances are knowledgble. The Indian dance are divided in two types Indian classical dance and Indian folk dance. The Indian classical dance comprises of : Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Mohini attam, Manipuri and kathakali. The Indian folk dance contains Bhangra and special dance observed in regional festives. Besides giving us knowledge and entertaintment, these forms of dances shows unity in the diversity among people.…