The rise of cities and large towns altered the culture and economy of the Pacific Northwest in tremendous ways. At that time, there was a new type of economic and social development emerged in the town of Portland and around Puget Sound. Therefore, Portland had suddenly became the most important city in the Pacific Northwest. Farm products from the Willamette Valley, minerals from Idaho, and wheat from around Walla Walla are all transported to Portland’s market through Columbia and Willamette rivers. This leads to the emergence of an urban and industrial economy that would eventually surpass and engulf the farm economy started in the Willamette Valley during the 1850s and after.
If Saint Domingue didn’t get captured, then what would happen? What if Napoleon conquered America? Where would the world be today? The expedition led by Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and established good relations with the Native Americans. Lewis and Clark have affected the United States’ development historically and geographically and through their relationships with Native Americans.
Africans from the Rice Coast were the largest group of slaves imported into South Carolina and Georgia around the 18th century which connects to the Gullah people’s location. The Gullah is descended from the slaves who labored on the rice
The lives of the Plains Indians were heavily influenced by governmental action and technological innovations in the second half of the 19th century. As settlers moved to the Plains, conflict between the settlers and the Plains Indians arose. This, in turn, led to a lost of culture of the Plains Indians. Although new technology came to the West and the government enforced treaties, in the Plains Indians best interest, however, it actually was the very force that caused dissimulation within the Plains Indians’ community. Governmental actions such as setting up reservations and the Dawes Act worked in the new settlers best interest.
Imagine being forced to leave your home and travel about 1,200 miles on foot to a new place. You probably wouldn 't want to leave to go on a dangerous journey for no reason. Many Native Americans were forced to give up land east of the Mississippi River and migrate to preset day Oklahoma. Nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, And Florida. President Andrew Jackson had over 20,000 Native Americans removed from their homeland.
Imagine tending to eight to nine horses every day per person. Seventy years later in 1856 an Indian Agent for the U.S. Government, named Whitfield, also observed the Comanche Indians and reported that there were fifty horses per lodge and twenty-five per adult male. Horses in the community multiplied by three in just
Native Americans had once dominated the land now called America, but eventually, their lives would be destroyed by European Colonization. In arrival/ settlement of Europeans, a drastic change for Native Americans occurred forcing them to submit to White settlers, choosing between assimilation into a White culture or preserving their heritage and ancestry. A number of negative results would occur including disease, loss of land, and loss right of self-governing, with no remorse to Native American culture. At this point in time five Indian tribes are recognized as civilized, those being; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Cree, and Seminole Indians, because of their acceptance to the acculturation that George Washington had proposed.
As more and more White people migrated into Cherokee land, the Cherokees became dependent on trade good, such as knives and hoes made of metal, hatchets, kettles, bolts of cloth, rum, firearms and ammunitions. Guns replaced bows as the primary weapon used for hunting and warfare as the Cherokees moved from subsistence hunting to commercial hunting. Women spent more time than before preparing hides for the deer skin trade. Trade facilitated the movement toward a centralized government, and the position of “trade commissioner”, Wro-setasetow, came into being, in order to coordinate trade with the colonies. (Steve
The Shoshone was a Native American tribe in the western Great Basin in the United States. This tribe was spread into the north and east Idaho and Wyoming. The Shoshone religion was Shoshone rituals. Their population was approximately 8000 members at first, but their population began to increase about 20,000 members. There were three classes in Shoshone tribe, which were the chief and shaman, trading partners, and the servants.
Chase Hegeman Mr. Smith English 2 23 September 2015 Pueblo Indians What is so special about pueblo houses? Well for starters they live in the Arizona and New Mexico, there is one tribe the lives in Texas. What makes them special is that the befriended the Spaniards so they never had to leave their home, so they are still there today. Pueblo comes from the spanish word ‘town’.
The Chickasaw Nation is a Native American tribe situated in Oklahoma. They were a part of the Five Civilized Tribes. Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole made up the rest of the Five Nations. The Chickasaw Indians initially lived in the southeast, residing in parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. Later on, they were forced to migrate to Oklahoma.
For the Sioux tribe, American expansion caused many problems and hardships, primarily derived from Americans’ dislike for Natives. This is evident in an excerpt from the book Sioux by D. L. Birchfield. One can see from this excerpt that when streams of American expansion moved west because of the California Gold Rush, they brought various illnesses and sickness to the Sioux. The spread of smallpox, measles, and other contagious diseases killed off an estimated ½ of their population (Birchfield). Settlers were not sad because of this news, and a lot were actually glad that so many Native Americans had died.
One of the biggest and most powerful tribes in South Carolina was the Cherokee tribe. The were also known as the “real people”. THe Cherokee tribe was huge. Just one village could have over 600 people in it, and most of their villages were lined with a thing called palisade surrounding it for protection. Their leaders could be made up of men and women, and either gender could own land.
Around the 1800s, the United Stated government was trying to figure out a way to remove the Indian tribes such as the Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw from the southeast. Many American settlers wanted to remove the Indians there because they sawDuring President Jackson 's term of office, he signed the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830. This Indian Removal Act, President Jackson let to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. There were tribes that left their lands peacefully; however, many other Indian people refused to relocate. In the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, one of the tribes known as Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the government.
Exam 1 Essay The Hopi tribe is strongly entrenched in religion, spirituality, morals and ethics, and as a matter of fact, the meaning of Hopi is “The Peaceful People” or “Peaceful Little Ones”. Hopis strive to be respectful of all living things, meanwhile, they follow the instructions of the Massaw, the Earth Guardian. The Hopi are one of the oldest living tribes in existence; to this day they are still living the Hopi way by continuing to conduct ceremonies and traditions meanwhile still speaking their ancient language. The Native American tribe are currently located on a Hopi Reservation in Northeastern Arizona with 19,327 Hopis according to the 2010 census (Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS), 2010). The Hopis hold great value
