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The book I chose to read this quarter is “Woods Runner” by Gary Paulsen. I will be analyzing the thoughts and actions of Samuel Smith, a 13 year old boy whose parents were taken by the British and Iroquois. Samuel Smith’s actions, reactions, and reasoning for his actions and thoughts throughout the story are fueled by fear of loss. Samuel is with either just himself, or Annie and Coop throughout most of the book. This is because his parents were taken by the British and the Iroquois indians.
Did you know that an estimated 4000 to 12,000 died on the Trail of Tears while trying to relocate for assimilation? The Trail of Tears was one of the biggest relocations in history. This was only one step in the many that it took for the American Indian to become fully assimilated into the American culture. The forced assimilation of American Indians was to be regarded with as a huge event which could be paired with the events of assimilation of the girls in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by wolves you can see the visible evidence that the girls are becoming more and more assimilated into human culture.
The American Indian Wilderness is a story by Louis Owens that tells of two different viewpoints that a man has and how his viewpoint changed from one to the other. The first viewpoint is that nature and civilization are separate and should stay so. The second viewpoint is that nature and civilization are connected in many ways. The author, a park ranger with the United States Forest Service, is tasked with the removal of an eighty year old shelter high in the White Pass Meadow which is located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. The shelter removal is the key point of the story, as it is a turning point in the viewpoint of the author.
At the end of this book it is very sad seeing how everything for the Sioux went downhill fast. This really hurt the tribe when all of this happens. “I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother.”
Imagine living a simple lifestyle where growing up everyone close to you was content and knew exactly who they were in life. Unfortunately for you, everything began to change as you grew up and the life you knew so well was becoming more modern. This then caused you to start forming different identities for yourself with all of these changes. That was the personal battle that Andrew Blackbird, author of History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, faced during his lifetime. In his short book he describes the events of his life and past events of his tribe and others in the area.
Throughout history, there have been many literary studies that focused on the culture and traditions of Native Americans. Native writers have worked painstakingly on tribal histories, and their works have made us realize that we have not learned the full story of the Native American tribes. Deborah Miranda has written a collective tribal memoir, “Bad Indians”, drawing on ancestral memory that revealed aspects of an indigenous worldview and contributed to update our understanding of the mission system, settler colonialism and histories of American Indians about how they underwent cruel violence and exploitation. Her memoir successfully addressed past grievances of colonialism and also recognized and honored indigenous knowledge and identity.
Introduction I am currently enrolled as a member of The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and chose this essay topic to further explore my family’s background. My great-great grandma, Ora Marguerite McLellan, was born on December 27, 1904, and is listed on the Final Dawes Roll as number 554. She is listed as Choctaw by blood and was added to the Dawes Rolls as a newborn. My father, who is Native American and lives in Oklahoma, doesn’t have much knowledge or insight about our family or the trials they experienced. I felt compelled to discover more about my ancestors by completing this research paper and educating myself on Native American history.
As people mature, they are affected by their family history, stories, and memories that have been formed or given by that family. They are then taught the ways of their family, lessons that were passed on through generations. In the stories Navajo Long Walk: The Tragic Story of a Proud People’s Forced March from Their Homeland by Joseph Bruchac, the people are forced away from their homeland and traditions in the beginning, but when the Americans started listening to them, they formed a lasting alliance that has seen Navajos contribute significantly to Americas war effort in both world wars. And Orca Chief by Lucky Budd and Roy Vickers, telling the story of fishermen who were too lazy and dropped their anchor with no thought for what it
children are often separated from their parents and driven into stockades with the sky for a blanket and the Earth for a pillow.” This shows that the Natives were treated harshly and discriminated. Overall, the Cherokees were discriminated and treated horrifically during the time of the indian removal
The Genocide: Trail of Tears/ The Indian removal act During the 1830s the united states congress and president Andrew Jackson created and passed the “Indian removal act”. Which allowed Jackson to forcibly remove the Indians from their native lands in the southeastern states, such as Florida and Mississippi, and send them to specific “Indian reservations” across the Mississippi river, so the whites could take over their land. From 1830-1839 the five civilized tribes (The Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and Chickasaw) were forced, sometimes by gun point, to march about 1,000 miles to what is present day Oklahoma.
The Sioux described how depressed the man came, and how many white men ridiculed him for it. Some Native Americans tried to escape allotment. One Cheyenne man and his family decide to leave the reservation and its new allotment for the mountains to stay away from white people, who could not be trusted. Most however were forced to allow their lands to be cut smaller and smaller, like the Northern Ute, until there was almost nothing left to live on. These particularly tragic tales continue into today, as Native Americans live in overcrowded reservations that have high rates of poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse, and even suicide, as tribes in Canada have recently
They stopped searching for a passageway to the East and sent many people out to hunt for furs. They traded not only with the Natives, but with other European countries as well. Many people came to the new world, and settled in areas rich with animals to hunt, Creating settlements such as, Quebec in Canada and the New Orleans. Bringing Christianity to the Natives was a harder than hunting for furs. Many tribes did not trust the white people, and would not allow them to come onto their land.
Crossing the land was not as easy as it was thought to be. There were wars with the Native Americans, on who owned the different pieces of land. While they were traveling many animals were unhappy that there were settlers on their land, which created another challenge; animal attacks were unavoidable challenges that they had to face. As they moved to the West they had to learn how to let go of some of their belongings and learn how to handle rough roads. They had to pack light when they were traveling because the wagons that they rode in where small and their belongings would tumble around because of the bumpy roads.
Native Americans flourished in North America, but over time white settlers came and started invading their territory. Native Americans were constantly being thrown and pushed off their land. Sorrowfully this continued as the Americans looked for new opportunities and land in the West. When the whites came to the west, it changed the Native American’s lives forever. The Native Americans had to adapt to the whites, which was difficult for them.
My father, Chingachgook, my brother, Uncas, and I were visiting our friends on the Frontier. Life on the frontier was hard, and days were constantly filled with fear and hard work. People living on the frontier grew their own food, and lived in log cabins. The French and the Indians constantly would attack because they wanted everyone to fear them. While we were on the frontier, we learned that John, the father of the frontier families, did not want to volunteer in the war because he feared Indians would attack his family.
