The Native Americans

During Westward Expansion, white settlers saw the Indians as a hindrance to civilization. Therefore the mindset of settlers were to convert Native Americans into white culture. To begin assimilating, the government should, “cease to recognize the Indians as political bodies,” adult male Indians should become a citizen to the government, Indian children shall be taken away and “be trained in industrial schools,” and Indians should be, “placed in the same position before the law.” Assimilating Indians wasn’t a simple teaching of a new culture instead, it was brutal. The boarding schools were merciless towards the Indians, mainly because they wanted to force Indians to drop their culture. Native Americans were obligated to change and lost their

The Apalachee were a group of farming Indians who inhabited Northwest Florida ever since around one thousand A.D. The Apalachee were concentrated around the present day city of Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. In this essay, the diet, traditions, family life, clothing, government, architecture and more about the Apalachee Indians will be explored. A precis of their timeline in the Florida panhandle will also be examined.

American Indians underwent several different eras of federal policy, each one varying on where the government stands when dealing with American Indians. One era of federal policy in particular is referred to as the “Allotment and Assimilation Era”, characterized by the policies regarding allotment of land and the process adapting American Indian children to an Anglo-Saxon society. While both aspects of the Allotment and Assimilation Era had a tremendous effect on American Indians, forcibly enrolling American Indian children into boarding schools, in an effort to “civilise” them, not only had a greater impact on tribal communities at the time, but it also had the most significant lasting legacy.

when the colonists arrived to america, the "new world", they found that the native Americans mainly cultivated beans, maize (corn), and squash, in north america. Cassava, corn, potatoes, and quinoa, in south america. There was few domesticated animals such as guinea pigs and turkeys in mesoamerica, domestics dogs were spread, also there alpacas and llamas, they where used for

It was the year 1620 when People from England boarded ships to America to find religious freedom. Bad weather blew their ship off course and they found themselves on Cape Cod, in what is now called Massachusetts. They declared their intention to create fair and equal laws that would be the basis for a democratic government. They emphasized that the laws would be made for the greater good of all.

Pueblo Indians lived in New Mexico. They built their houses out of clay that was baked with other things to make it hard and like stone. Today in the west there are still many homes made out of material very similar. Pueblo women wore a knee length dress that covered the right shoulder but left the left shoulder bare. In the 1900s evangelist did not think this was modest so they began to wear shirts underneath. Today that style is still around. In the west the soil isn't as good. The Pueblos lived in the west and they had to survive. They came up with ways that they could plant all kinds of plants with the dry soil. Thanks to them, today we have ways to plant crops in the west. The Pueblo Indians Spanish just liked they inspired Americans.

During America’s Gilded Age, a drastic change in the west transpired. While many Native Americans had already endured profound changes, their freedom was about to become nearly extinct. It was a time in which they called the Second Industrial Revolution. There was an ample amount of natural resources and a development in the market for manufactured goods. Railroad companies flourished and alas, Indian removal was imperative in obtaining land for laborers and miners (Foner, Give Me Liberty!, p.477). As Americans wanted to take their land, they also wanted to strip Native Americans of their culture. The federal government strived in trying to civilize them, so The Bureau of Indian Affairs created boarding schools all over the west in the 1870s. These schools were for Native American children of all ages. The goal was complete “assimilation” (Mabalon, 9/9/15). The children were forced to dress differently, they gained new names, and they were isolated from any cultural influence. It was as though they were forced to give up tradition. It caused them to start having hatred towards their culture and to be ashamed of themselves. Native Americans lost their values and their freedom almost completely. They were essentially being taught how to be white capitalists. (Mabalon, 9/9/15). It wasn’t until after a long, painful struggle and resistance that they finally gained citizenship for all in 1924. Even then, there was still a great way to go until the Native Americans were able to

The Southeastern Native Americans lived in the area of the United States imperfectly defined by being below Kentucky and Virginia and east of Arkansas’s and Louisiana’s border with Texas. This is imperfect because the Caddo, Atakapans, and the Tutelo crossed these borders. The environment was composed of Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and the South Appalachian Mountains. The coastal plains were comprised of pine forests, rivers, bayous, swamps, and floodplains. Piedmont had rolling hills, hardwood forest, many rivers, and fertile valleys. Lastly, at the South Appalachian Mountains there existed narrow, silty valleys, forests, and many deposits of stone (Sutton, 2012). The Southeast provides a decidedly beneficial climate and environment to sustain

After the readings and discussions this week on Native Americans, the information conflicts with my previous knowledge.

When Europeans came to the American continent, contact with the Native Americans who were already living there was inevitable. In the colonization of early America, the various groups of European settlers: the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch each had unique experiences with, and therefore individual opinions of the Native Americans whom they interacted. Each of these nations also shared commonalties in their colonization processes and in how they viewed Native Americans. Furthermore, the Native Americans held differing opinions of each group of Europeans whom they encountered while some features of their relationships with Europeans were consistent despite the tribe or nation involved.

They were living in the well known such as the states Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming (The Great Plains). The Cheyennes were involuntary to move to Oklahoma during the 1800's, but some fled and went north into Montana. There were grass covered prairies with rivers and streams. The climate varied from hot summers and cold winters.The animals there included the Cougars, Prairie Dogs, Beavers, Eagles, Bears, Porcupines, Deer, Elk, Antelope, Bison, and Wolves.

In the precolonial era, an individual’s identity was deeply rooted in their religious beliefs, if not a direct product thereof. For example, the Native Americans, though separate and distinct, generally viewed their entire world as sacred and significant and thus treated it as such (Goff & Harvey, 2004, p. 7). Conversely, precolonial Europeans saw sanctity much more limitedly than the Native Americans and, with the official religion being Christianity, were heavily reliant on an institutionalized church and its clergy to attain deliverance (Goff & Harvey, 2004, p. 9). Like the Native Americans, many West African tribes, which would soon be subjugated to the American slave trade, had commonalities amid their various religious beliefs, mainly, that there was one supreme god and many secondary gods. This theistic belief necessitated the worship of many deities in attempt to gain favor (Goff & Harvey, 2004, p. 8). Though these precolonial people varied greatly, their identities were all deeply embedded in their respective religions.

Have you ever heard of the Cherokee Indians? Sure you have! Just as a reminder, they are the biggest tribe, and most known of out of all the Indian tribes there has ever been in the southeast. They are very important to American History and helped shaped us to be the Americans we are today, which is clearly what I 'll be explaining in this paper. Throughout the paper, I 'll tell you everything you need to know about the Cherokee Indians and continue to relate to the thesis.

Children were taken away from their homes and told everything they knew was wrong. They were sent to boarding schools to change their culture. These boarding schools were run by the United States government. The government's goal was to civilize Native Americans. They sent children to these schools against their will. Native American children were educated like Americans and they had to change their native ways to be more like whites (Cayton 266). Teachers abused their students and beat their native ways out of them. They were not allowed to see their families so they would try to escape, but their attempts were unsuccessful. The United States government’s Boarding Schools of the mid-late 1800s irreparably changed Native American culture.

Often time’s couples marry only to find out that they have a difference of opinion or one spouse has caused serious marital strain on the other. Since the Iroquois couples lived matrilineally, this makes it easier for the woman to dissolve the marriage, keep her children and continue to live at home with her family. “If a woman no longer desired to be married to her husband, all she had to do was pack up her husband’s belongings and leave them on the steps of the longhouse. When he came home, the husband would find them, realize his wife had terminated the marriage, and return to his home village and his own patrilineage.” (Nowak, B. & Laird, P. 2010 chapter 4.5 Divorce) In the American culture it is more difficult to obtain a divorce.