Ojibwa Warrior Review
Ojibwa Warrior by Dennis Banks
Summary and Reflection
There must first be the understanding that there were many nations who lived in the Northern Hemisphere before it became the nations of Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. They were known as the Cherokee, the Creek, the Algonquin, or the Chippewa. These nations were established in relative proximity of others such as the Crow, the Shoshone, and the Iroquois. Many once sovereign Indian nations had resided throughout the easternmost majority of what is now America and Canada. The expansion of European industries and the availability of natural resources that were found with North America caused forceful takeovers of Native lands and strategic genocide of many Native Nations by the rising American nation. These Native nations were forced from their lands under heavy physical pressure from the United States government and many endured weather, famine, and disease as they migrated from their homes to lands promised to them. Long before the state of North Dakota or the city of Cheyenne in Wyoming ever existed, there were the nations of the Dakota, the Sioux, the Lakota, and the Cheyenne Indians. These natives were repressed into small reservations and forced to comply with state regulated hunting and fishing practices, even if they restricted the Indians’ ability to provide sustenance for the tribe.
Natives did not simply concede their lands, and instead they presented instances of forceful resistance. Historical accounts of the war of 1812, the Battle of Tecumseh, and the Removal Act of 1830, show that the Native Americans were forcefully exiled, but many stood up for what was rightfully theirs and were killed because of it. Native tribes were under intense physical pressure from incoming settlers throughout the mid-1850s and into the 20th century. Atrocities were committed in which cultural lands were repeatedly taken from the Native, thousands of Indian people were murdered, and treaties that
Summary and Reflection
There must first be the understanding that there were many nations who lived in the Northern Hemisphere before it became the nations of Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. They were known as the Cherokee, the Creek, the Algonquin, or the Chippewa. These nations were established in relative proximity of others such as the Crow, the Shoshone, and the Iroquois. Many once sovereign Indian nations had resided throughout the easternmost majority of what is now America and Canada. The expansion of European industries and the availability of natural resources that were found with North America caused forceful takeovers of Native lands and strategic genocide of many Native Nations by the rising American nation. These Native nations were forced from their lands under heavy physical pressure from the United States government and many endured weather, famine, and disease as they migrated from their homes to lands promised to them. Long before the state of North Dakota or the city of Cheyenne in Wyoming ever existed, there were the nations of the Dakota, the Sioux, the Lakota, and the Cheyenne Indians. These natives were repressed into small reservations and forced to comply with state regulated hunting and fishing practices, even if they restricted the Indians’ ability to provide sustenance for the tribe.
Natives did not simply concede their lands, and instead they presented instances of forceful resistance. Historical accounts of the war of 1812, the Battle of Tecumseh, and the Removal Act of 1830, show that the Native Americans were forcefully exiled, but many stood up for what was rightfully theirs and were killed because of it. Native tribes were under intense physical pressure from incoming settlers throughout the mid-1850s and into the 20th century. Atrocities were committed in which cultural lands were repeatedly taken from the Native, thousands of Indian people were murdered, and treaties that