...“Indians are cheaters”. In “By Any Other Name”, the teacher had said to the little girl that “Indians are cheaters”, the teacher had judged the little girl because she was Indian,she was not white and British. The little girl did not want to go back to the school because of the teacher, had been racist towards her, because she was Indian. People in the world should like each other and care more about each other no matter if your slow or fast or even white or black. In some cultures they have different voices and different actions also. People are treated differently, everyone is human and we all have feelings. The teacher did not like the little girl because she was Indian not British like they were. The teacher was saying Indians cheat because...
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...THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN (causes and effects) Susan Adams Morgan History 4414-XTIA October 3, 2015 Dr. Mickey Crews Troy University The Battle of the Little Bighorn On a hot dusty June 25th day in 1876, one of the most famous battles in American history would take place along a four-mile stretch of the Little Bighorn River in the Black Hills in southeastern Montana. This battle was also known as Custer’s Last Stand by the American people and the Native Americans knew the battle as the Battle of Greasy Grass. There are many different reasons that this one battle was so famous. It is because it would be the last great battle that the Native Americans would win and it would be the last great battle that George Armstrong Custer would lose. Why did this battle even have to take place? The area where this battle took place was in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Exactly why were the Black Hills of South Dakota so important to the United States that they would violate the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 and sacrifice so many lives for? The principal antagonists were the Seventh Regiment of Cavalry of the United States Army which was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, and a number of nomadic Indian tribes—Cheyenne, Sans Arcs, Miniconjoux Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Blackfeet, and Hunkpapa Sioux—under the general direction of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, at least for the duration of the battle[i]. The United States...
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...Plains Indians, which included the Sioux, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne tribes banded together to fight for their land. In the summer of 1876, an emboldened army of Plains Indians led by Sioux Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse fought in what is now known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Indians killed Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and nearly wiped out the 7th Cavalry. Even though the Battle of the Little Bighorn was a great victory for the Native Americans it was not enough to put an end to their inevitable loss of the war against the United States for their homeland. In 1868, the United States signs the Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux in an effort to bring peace between the white settlers and the tribe. Under the terms of the treaty, the U.S. agrees to withdraw from...
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...Christopher Williams History 102: American History Since 1877 April 27, 2014 The battle of Little Big Horn was a very significant battle in American history. Many of the battles in American history show the strength of the American military and the smarts of the leaders at that time. On the contrary, when it comes to the battle of Little Big horn it was one of the few low points in American military history. Even though history will prove that General Custer was one of the best General and leaders to ever lead but this battle is one of the low points of his career. This battle goes to show just how important it is to plan properly and ensure that you follow instruction that are given to you from your superiors. To begin the Battle of Little Bighorn took place at the river in Montana Territory on June 25, 1876. This was the first problem for the American Fighters because they had a very little knowledge of the terrain and the actual skill level of the Indians. Whenever you are a part of anytime of battle it is very important to ensure that you have as much intelligence as possible but that was not the case with General Custer. General Custer felt as though because of his war knowledge and his reputation that this would be another show of force in which him and his men would just run over the Indian and take exactly what they came from. As history shows whenever a military unit is overconfident they tend to become complacent which ultimately lead to failure of the mission...
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...Abstract On June 25, 1876, the 7th Cavalry Regiment led by LTC George Armstrong Custer, went into the valley of the Little Bighorn. Unknowingly they were walking into the largest number of Indian warriors the world has ever seen. By the end of the day 210 soldiers would lay dead including Custer himself. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has become the most discussed and most popular battle of the Indian wars. It marked the greatest, and last, battle the American Indians would have over the Untied States Army. It was also the most devastating loss the U.S. Army would have in the Westward expansion of the Untied States. The news stunned the nation and led to an endless debate about the facts, strategy and tactics of the battle that continues to the his day. INTRODUCTION The Battle of Little Bighorn also known as Custer’s Last Stand. Took place in June 1876, in the little Bighorn Valley of Southeast Montana. The number of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors that the 7th Cavalry Regiment faced was approximately 4,500. The battle showed how the failure to use the Principals of War, Mass and Synchronization, helped cause the most devasting defeat that the U.S. Army ever received during the Indian Wars. And how the use of Mass and Concentration could affect a conflict. The primary resources used Custer’s Last Stand by Peter Panzeri and Custer’s Last Campaign by John S. Gray. STRATEGIC SETTING The road to war. In the 1860’s Sioux tribes roamed the great...
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...1 INDIANS Donna Rose History204 Tami Depasse July 14, 2014 2 “Go West Young Man” (Greeley, H. 1865) and West is where we went. Which marked the beginning of the end of the American Indians way of life. A life that was once peaceful and prosperous for the Sioux Indians was about to change drastically. Throughout history, the Sioux Indians, had to fight physical and emotional battles, in trying to retain their land and dignity. Following a time line, the American Indians were treated unjustly, as I will show starting with the Bozeman Trail and continuing on with The Great Sioux Reservation, Custer’s expedition, Battle of the Little Big Horn, Ghost Dancers, Wounded Knee, Citizenship Act of 1924, The Indian Reorganization Act, and The American Movement(AIM). The terrains were rough, being brutal and forcibly tough, especially for the new settlers who came west, when there was talk of gold. John Jacobs and his partner John...
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...America and its cultural influence. Mary is a half-blood Indian, having a father of mixed heritage and an Indian mother. Her mother believes in conforming to American society and somewhat accepts the fact that it has degraded the Sioux and their culture. Watching her mother and others assimilate to a society that doesn’t accept her ancestor’s traditional way of life leads Mary to rebel. Mary reaches out to her older family as well and other rebellious natives her age. In doing so she learns more about her heritage while indulging in drugs and vagrancy. Embracing the “white man's” ways and maintaining her ancestor’s traditions are conflicts that inevitably guide Mary into participating in the American Indian Movement. Throughout the book Mary allows the reader to experience her life on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian reservations. Mary and the majority of the Sioux are discriminated against and treated unfairly by society and the United States...
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...United States History Since 1877 HIST-1302 4020 1 The Battle of Little Big Horn The eye witness accounts in America Firsthand show that the battle was indeed a massacre. Not one in the sense that there was an excess of mutilations and carnage, but that the U.S. Army participating in the battle were destroyed with little effort from the Indian forces. One Bull makes this clear in his account when he says, “I went with Sitting Bull and volunteered to go help kill these soldiers but Sitting Bull said no. So we watched the fight from a hill.” Sitting Bull did not feel the need to help the other Indian warriors in killing the remaining soldiers. Also, in Charles DeRudio’s account, DeRudio’s continual narrow escapes from the Indian warriors and the defeat that led to his adventure with the Pvt. O’Neill show that the American Army never had a chance. The U.S. Army was attempting to push the Indians that had fled their reserve back onto the reserve. The Indians had left because the whites refused to respect and stay away from their tribal lands in the Black Hills. The reason that the word ‘’massacre” fits what happened at Little Big Horn is mainly because the U.S. army was overall greatly outnumbered. In fact, General Custer’s scouts had estimated there were roughly 2500 to 5000 Indians in the village Custer had chosen to attack. Custer ignored these high estimates and figured there were only about 1000 Indians which could have easily been overcome by Custer’s 647 men. Not only...
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...The Battle of Little Bighorn The Battle of Little Bighorn was fought on June 25, 1876, the Battle soon ended the next day. There are many said reasons for the cause of this battle. The Sioux tribe was a Native American tribe that lived in the West of the United States in the 1800s. The Sioux tribe did not like that the white settlers were trying to make them move. “These Indians continue to rove at pleasure, attacking scattered settlements, stealing horses and cattle, and murdering peaceful settlers and travelers,” said J.D Cameron, Secretary of War. But that was from Cameron’s point of view. But the Indians were just trying to keep the white settlers from taking their stuff, they just wanted their land to be their’s and not have to...
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...Just Like That & Indian Camp Comparative analyses, The two short stories are quite alike, in both stories there a little naive boy who we follow from their point of view, two macho men who seems to be thinking about themselves. And both have a life changing moment for a little innocent boy. Nick is the main character in Indian camp, he is also the only one we see from the inside and outside. His father calls him Nicky one time, on their way home from the Indian camp to hold what is left of his childhood. When they were sailing over the river to the Indian camp, ‘Nick lay back with his father’s arms around him’ so we can see that he had gone trough a little development in is growth from a young boy, to a man. In the other short story the growing up process had gone terribly wrong, a man with a relationship to the boy is unknown, was shot dead. They were out shooting kangaroos’, and the boy did not want to. So when the man said ‘‘if you can’t do it now you never will’’ he probably believed that he had no other choice than shoot a kangaroo to become a man. I believe the plots are different, in just like that, the climax is building up to one single sentence, ‘‘The crow barked’’ and then the climax was realised. When in Indian Camp the suicide was suddenly and therefore quite choking for me. The fact that the baby was not his could be a big shame to bear, so he took the coward solution of taking his own life. Life and death is also a theme in the short stories, so to...
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...Themes Indian Freedom versus White Civilization Throughout the novel, Richter clearly differentiates between the natural, free world of the Indians and the restricting, "civilized" domain of the whites. Whereas Indians roam the land free from the burdens of earthly goods, whites are concerned with creating stable settlements in which they can set up industry. As Bejance points out, white people gradually force you to conform to their standards of behavior. True Son eventually discovers that outsiders lose their freedom little by little, and before they know it they are living in a house, sleeping in a bed, and eating with knives and forks. The last paragraph of the novel leaves us with a particularly ugly idea of white society: True Son is forced to leave the "wild, beloved freedom" of the Indian country for the empty and prison-like world of white society. Furthermore, whites are portrayed as more intolerant and exclusive about who can exist within their "civilized" society, and they have been known to betray Indian converts and enslave blacks. As Bejance and True Son's stories suggest, Indians are willing to include members of any race in their free culture so long as they are loyal. White captives adopted by Indians become loved and fully assimilated members of Indian families, as we see in the case of True Son. The Conestoga Indians, however, are never fully accepted into the white community they embrace. Even though they have done nothing wrong and consider themselves...
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...destruction of the Plains Indians’ way of life. To come to a conclusion on this, the factor of land beliefs will have to be analysed and considered. But to compare and make a fair judgement, I will also be examining other factors also. These will include the railroads, US government and the US army. I shall then come to conclusion based on the analysis in my assessment. As it is the subject of the hypothesis for this question, I shall start with analysing the impact of beliefs of land. The primary Belief on land of the Plains Indians was that no body owned it, and that everything belonged to the Great Spirit. The white Americans however believed that land was owned by whoever took it first, or who bought it off the owner. This led to conflicts and therefore partially led to the destruction of the Native American way of life. The white Americans quickly claimed land and would move the Plains Indians around as they saw fit, usually affected by where gold had recently been discovered. This culminated in putting the Native Americans on reservations. In many of the agreements and treaties signed over land the settlers would claim never to go back on their promises “as long as grass grew” and “the mountains stood”. Breaking the promises would have shown the Native Americans that the settlers thought little of their intelligence, and also would instil a lack of trust in the settlers, as now every apparently solemn vow to not attack certain areas or to treat the Plains Indians better etc. could...
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...America, there was no greater sense of Otherness than between Europeans and Native Americans. Both Indians and Africans represented the "other" to white colonists, but the Indians held one card denied to the enslaved Africans— autonomy. As sovereign entities, the Indian nations and the European colonies (and countries) often dealt as peers. In trade, war, land deals, and treaty negotiations, Indians held power and used it. As late as 1755, an English trader asserted that "the prosperity of our Colonies on the Continent will stand 1 or fall with our Interest and favour among them." Here we canvas the many descriptions of Indians by white colonists and Europeans, and sample the sparse but telling record of the Native American perspective on Europeans and their culture in pre-revolutionary eighteenth-century British America. All come to us, of course, through the white man's eye, ear, and pen. Were it not for white missionaries, explorers, and frontier negotiators (the go-betweens known as "wood's men"), we would have a much sparser record of the Indian response to colonists and their "civilizing" campaigns. . * Royal Library of Denmark “The natives, the so-called savages” Francis Daniel Pastorius, Pennsylvania, 1700 Pastorius was the founder of German Town, the first German settlement in Pennsylvania. 2 Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck “The supreme commander of the Yuchi Indian nation, whose name is Kipahalgwa” Georgia, 1736 The natives, the so-called savages . . . they...
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...There was only one problem. The west already had life and that was the Indians, so they had to move. Was this fair? No but the way they justified their thinking was the Indians had a different way of life and it didn’t fit the mold of the U.S. They thought the Indians were uneducated, unclean, savages who didn’t know how to make the most of the modern civilization. The rest of the unknown territory needed railroads, manufacturing, and agricultural growth. They also thought the Indians would be better off with their own kind and in a place of their own, meaning further west. But the Indians were educated people. They could read and write, some spoke three languages and they were the original expansionists. They helped tame the west and shape it way before the settlers. They were already “farmers and entrepreneurs”(Edmunds). Also, the Indians didn’t believe anyone owned the land, it was for everyone to share. So this land that was founded on the rights of others (U.S.), decided to take their land (the Indians) and basically told them you don’t belong here. This land is ours now. But the U.S. was a democracy and this was their destiny, to bring their knowledge and “technology” (Edmunds) to the untamed west. After all, they were just doing what all the other countries were doing, growing, prospering and bringing this land into the 19th century. I think the displacement of the Indians has always been a black spot on the white shirt of American history...
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...unconquerable. My mom also told me that there was a Russian queen named Nikita. In Indian culture my parents have to do this tradition where they have to go to a temple to a priest and find out what should my name start with. So then the priest looks at the day, the date and the time. Then tells my parents it should start with a letter “N”. My parents were having a hard time finding a name for me. So my parents decide to take a look at the book full of names that started with the letter “N” finally they decided to name me Nikita. They also saw that Nikita was a very uncommon name. So that’s how my name came to be Nikita. Indian culture is really hard to follow when you live in America. I think it’s hard to be an Indian and American at the same time. I have to be both because if I forget my Indian culture my parents get really mad and if I don’t be American I wouldn’t fit in like other people. But I think I like being Indian knowing more or different languages than other Americans it makes me feel special. My dad doesn’t allow me and my little brother to speak English at home because he doesn’t want us to forget our language and I think that’s the right thing because I forgot how to write Hindi and if I wouldn’t speak Hindi I might forget how to speak it too. My mom always cooks Indian meals for our family so I and my little brother can know what an Indian meal is like. Having a little Indian and American flavor in some of the things it makes them special well that’s what...
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