topic discussed aligns within a bigger picture. History has managed to capture Native voices and viewpoints, which allows them to live through their words long after they are gone. It is through speeches and treaties that we are able to understand the worldview of non-Natives and their motivations with history to complete certain acts. A speech by an Iroquoian leader shows the deep resentment that many Native Americans felt about colonial encroachment on their lands and their subsequent difficulties
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Offensive Mascots Can some mascots be racist? Mascots can be very offensive towards Indian/Native American races because they form stereotypes about different races. These mascots need to be changed, because it is bad for the people being offended, and the community as a whole. People argue that this doesn't hurt the people, but it does, constantly. Everywhere they go there are stereotypical things around them, because of their teams mascot. Some people may say that it would cost to much money
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TRIBAL STATISTICS The Menominee Indians lived in parts of Wisconsin & Michigan. They had around 10 million acres of land. They even settled in the town I currently live in, Marinette, WI. (The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin) They lived off the land and its resources to survive. There were 5 subdivisions within the Menominee Indian Tribe, which include: bear, eagle, wolf, crane, and moose. (U. S. History) HISTORY The Menominee Indians became U. S. citizens in 1924, this gave them rights and
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States was destined to span across the American continent. Manifest Destiny, to a significant extent, played a major role in dividing the Union from the 1830 to 1860. Manifest Destiny stimulated the territorial expansion of the United States from sea to shining sea. The admission of these territories as new states lead to the major divisions and conflicts across the country on the issue of whether they are to be admitted as free or slave states. The American expansionist belief known as Manifest
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In Ernesto Chavez’s “Race, Manifest Destiny, and the U.S. war with Mexico” Chavez talks about manifest destiny and how it fueled territorial expansion. A main point Chavez makes is the differences between the constitutions of Mexico and the United States. A crucial difference is how the United States disregarded Indians as citizens, while Mexico guaranteed their rights as citizens. In 1810, the Mexican Republic established itself as “a multicultural entity” (page 3) which differed from the United
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the people, and the time period this was painted this piece illustrates Indians moving west to what looks like the southwest. During this time period the Indians were at war with the Americans, so one could say the dark part of the piece that the Indians leave behind represents the Americans. It represents how American technology and civilization are fighting and corrupting the
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The Columbus Exchange made a huge impact on the Americas and Europe. The Native Americans and Europeans way of life was changed with the exchange of plants and animals. Animals were transported from the Old World to the New World and this impacted their variety of food. Before Columbus, there was a large difference between the animals in the different worlds. The Native Americans had very few animals, and most of their labor work was done all on their own without the help of large animals like horses
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Knowing someone's background information can help make inferences on one's decisions or how they play a role in an event. Edmund Randolph was born on August 17, 1753 and grew up up in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he lived with his mother and father, Ariana Jenings and John Randolph, and his two sisters. Edmund studied law with his father after going to the college of William and Mary. Edmund and his fathers had a tense connection during the revolution. In 1774, he took Thomas Jefferson’s law clients
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against it. All of this expansion has paid a price to the people who were already living out west. As settlers moved west, they forced Indians from their land. Settlers cut off the Indians food supply, by killing the American Bison. The Bison was a valuable commodity to the American Indians; they used its skin for making clothes, shoes, and shelter. Out of their bones they made tools and various weapons, and the rest they used for food supply. The thought was if we starve them out they will surrender
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publishers started to print for the audience (people) different types of genres, women in the society, melodramas and so forth, all these represented the American’s lifestyle and their beliefs ( Divine page 227). Despite this, Andrew Jackson was an American symbol for democracy; however in 1824 he lost the presidential election, four years later his victory was depicted as more democratic mold. In 1824 the election was intense between these individuals ‘John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, Henry Clay
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