The Cherokee had dressed like white people, learned the language of white people, and even made a government just like the U.S. Constitution, but the common man had found gold and farm land on their homeland so they were still going to be evicted. A letter from one of the Cherokees named Elias Boudinot had said,” look at our people! They are wretched! Look, my dear sir, around you, and see the progress vice and immorality have already made! See the misery!”
This book is being written because Diego Vigil wants his audience to know how the Chicano movement is what it is today. He shows us what factors have contributed to the development of the Chicano experience and movement that is still present with us. The book reflects the importance that indigenous people had to the Chicano movement; how the indigenous people went from being Indians to Chicanos. This book is also being written to appreciate and understand the changes that Indians had to adapt in order to become Chicanos and how the natives of a country became targeted or labeled as illegal. An issue that is to be dealt is how Europeans and those who came after them fought against the indigenous majority population over land that the indigenous
Among the explorers of North America that sought out and plundered the natives’ riches, Hernando De Soto is noted for combing over the southeast. During this journey De Soto is noted for meeting and sending Chief Tuscaloosa to his untimely death. Not only did Hernando De Soto and his crew kill Chief Tuscaloosa but they were known for conquering other natives in lust over their riches, such as gold and silver, not to mention their territory. The natives stood no chance against Hernando De Soto and his men, not only were the natives at a disadvantage technologically but the had been already injured socially and economically.
This piece is written by Bartolomé de las Casas, a Spanish Dominican friar who witnessed atrocities by the Spanish colonists on the Native Americans, mainly in Cuba and Santo Domingo. It is an extract from his work ‘A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies’ – written in 1542 and published in 1552. The extract details how, in las Casas’ opinion, the way the Spanish colonists treated the native Indians, particularly in Cuba, was not acceptable and he was using his first-hand experience of these atrocities to appeal to King Charles V to stop the atrocities towards the natives of the recently discovered New World. When las Casas first moved to the New World as a young adult, he was actually a slave owner but quickly changed to his later
De Soto kept a chart from the king and read a lengthy statement to each group of natives that he encountered. He informed them that they all belong to him and the Spanish crowd. The Indians were to pledge their allegiance to Spain and accept the Catholic faith. If they refused it, it came with the warning that the Spaniards will start a war and go after all of their
To coincide with Jackson’s fears and inability to trust the Indians, Remini provides an excerpt of a speech delivered by Shawnee Chief Tecumseh to the Creek Indian tribe in 1811 (Remini, p.1). Remini quotes the Indian chief saying, “Burn their dwellings-destroy their stock-slay their wives and children that the very breed may perish” (p.1). Hence, it is evident that the Indians aimed at dealing with the whites in a ruthless manner, a fact that warrants the United States’
Many conflicts between the Europeans and the Native Americans can be explained by misunderstanding and ignorance surrounding each other's culture. This is evident in the 1744 account of Sebastian de Sistiaga, a Spanish Jesuit priest who was stationed in what is currently
Petalesharo’s writing reflected the treatment of Native Americans during the 1800s. Being a Native American himself, Petalesharo was able to give perspective on a point in history typically viewed from a white man’s opinion. The excerpt “Petalesharo” explains how the Native American was able “to prevent young women captured by other tribes from being sacrificed”, making Petalesharo well liked by the Americans (588). Petalesharo gave the “Speech of the Pawnee Chief” infront of Americans to convey the differences between Native Americans and Americans through emotion, logic, and credibility, which showed how the two groups will never be the same, but still can coexist in the world together.
My most valuable secondary sources, which most helped me understand the chronology of events relating to my topic, have been Bosque Redondo and The Long Walk, both written by Lynn R. Bailey. I’ve attempted to divide my primary sources into Navajo and Anglo-American accounts of events, with many Navajo histories having been passed down orally over generations. The letters of James H. Carleton have presented valuable insight into the intentions of overseer of the events detailed in my paper, while transcriptions of testimony by Navajo Chiefs have aided me with insight regarding the outlook of Navajo leadership. The compilation of oral stories which have been passed down in Oral History Stories of the Long Walk has presented me with a great deal of how members of the Navajo (at the time of the book’s recording) remember the Long Walk and Bosque Redondo, granting insight into how those events live in Navajo
While the Indians have had to endure a lot from the white people, Tecumseh’s “Speech to the Osages” suggests that pain and hardship can also produce solidarity between two nations. Through the
“Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress”, chapter one of “A People’s History of the United States”, written by professor and historian Howard Zinn, concentrates on a different perspective of major events in American history. It begins with the native Bahamian tribe of Arawaks welcoming the Spanish to their shores with gifts and kindness, only then for the reader to be disturbed by a log from Columbus himself – “They willingly traded everything they owned… They would make fine servants… With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” (Zinn pg.1) In the work, Zinn continues explaining the unnecessary evils Columbus and his men committed unto the unsuspecting natives.
Today’s event was a crucial part in communicating our distaste to how Great Britain is taxing us. I have a feeling that this will act as an importing stepping stone in the future of our colonial rights. After the Townshend Duties were dropped, except concerning tea, Great Britain has had the audacity to still try to warp our minds into buying from them. Although the Indian tea is cheaper and much more flavourful than the Dutch tea we have secretly been importing, we colonists have decided that there is no way we are buying anything that Britain has had to do with. Although I am weary from the excitement today, I can’t help but smile when I think of the clearly defiant message we sent the British.
While the Indians have had to endure a lot from the white people, Tecumseh’s “Speech to the Osages” suggests that pain and hardship can also produce solidarity between two nations. Through the
In the 16th Century, Spain became one of the European forces to reckon with. To expand even further globally, Spanish conquistadors were sent abroad to discover lands, riches, and North America and its civilizations. When the Spanish and Native American groups met one another, they judged each other, as they were both unfamiliar with the people that stood before them. The Native American and Spanish views and opinions of one another are more similar than different because when meeting and getting to know each other, neither the Spaniards nor the Native Americans saw the other group of people as human. Both groups of people thought of one another as barbaric monsters and were confused and amazed by each other’s cultures.
Th the saga of Spanish conquest not only reveals a story of defeat, exploitation and control it also tells a story of the “negotiation of culture,” between the Spanish and the indigenous people of Spanish America. It is a saga where the fusion of the old was brought together with the new. The friction experienced by many indigenous people, as well as Africans, refused at times to accept the ideas that the Spanish were imposing. In the end the end the strong hand of Europe was able to conquer these people, but not entirely.
