Essay On Mental Health Counselor

The book explains vividly the slaughtering tragedy where the American and the Indians are killing each other without mercy. In this book, the author gives a clear thesis of the events that happen. He develops the story well from the point where the families from Arkansas move through the Utah territory during the Utah War conflict. They arrive at Salt Lake City and eventually stopping to rest at mountain meadows where they are attacked by the militia leaders.

They believed that all white people would die and the dead Native Americans would return to earth if they lived together in peace with the whites, abandoned white influences, and danced a particular dance. The Ghost Dance was popular amongst the Sioux that lived in the Dakota territory. The military authorities eventually outlawed performing the dance. Problems worsened when Sitting Bull was killed during arrest in December 1890. At Wounded Knee Creek cavalry rounded up many members of the Sioux tribe.

For example in “Violins Of Hope” a person named Amnon Weinstein is ashamed of talking about the Holocaust while his wife Assi Bielski isn’t. This is because as the narrator states,” Once, [Weinstein] asked about his grandfather and says his mother silently opened a book about the war and pointed to a pile of bodies. Then Weinstein married Assi Bielski, whose father was a famous Jewish resistance fighter… was amazed at how happily the Bielski family talked about the war…. Her family killed Germans, by quantities, not by one. My family was all killed by the Germans.”

However, on 29th November that year, after a night of heavy drinking, Chivington ordered the massacre of the Native Indians. The massacre majorly led to the deaths of children and women and since then it has been referred to as the Sand Creek

The Indian version of the Wounded Knee Massacre was spoken by multiple Indians, including Turning Hawk, Captain Sword, Spotted Horse, and American Horse. In the Indians versions, the Indians recalled how the killings conducted by the whites were near indiscriminate, from men to women, from school children to infants, which makes the reader feel more sympathetic for the Indian’s side. In American Horse’s statement, he mentions that, “Right near the flag of truce a mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing that its mother was dead was still nursing, and that especially was a very sad sight. The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were very heavy with child were

Ishi the Last Yahi, 1992, directed and produced by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts, is a documentary on the life of a native American named Ishi, the timeline from when he was he was captured by white settlers to the time of his death. The film used many pictures, voice recordings and still clips to engage the audience. Ishi’s friends and family were killed by white settlers, disease, and starvation.   Before Ishi could die of starvation, he left his home and went to California where he captured and placed into a mental institute. An Anthropologist by the name of Alfred Kroeber from the university of California, went west in search of Native Americans.

One reason is because they supposedly “poisoned a spring and an ox carcass near the central Utah town of Fillmore. ”11 After reading the book Massacre at Mountain Meadows, I now believe that it was a spore to have poisoned the spring and killed the ox around that time being transferred through meat to people, which would end up killing them. I understand that some of the men “threatened to join the incoming federal troops against the saints. ”12 One man even went as far as to claim, “he had a gun that killed Joseph Smith,”13 him being one of the men the Mormons most admired.

“Johnny! I nearly screamed. What are we going to do? They put you in an electric chair for killing people!!” In that sentence Johnny had just killed Bob and and he hadn 't thought about going into that electric chair he just saw that Bob and the Socs were drowning ponyboy and did what his heart told him to do.

To teach their ways before Columbus and his men infiltrated their minds with European ways. They are people, great people who deserves remembrance. Columbus Day represents arrogance, and poor leadership

In the song Indian Sunset by Elton John and Bernie Taupin show different ways of how others identity has affected people you love are affected and the ways you act to change your identity. In the song the Indian Tribe is attacked and got attacked in his being forced to leave their area this caused many loved ones to be killed and what the quote leads to is have one soldier of the tribe thought that death would be the best way for peace. “And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold.

They murdered more than 300 colonizers. This created complete war. As a result, in 1623, Captain William Tucker sent his people to an Indian village to discuss about peace. They served Indians poisonous drinks which killed a lot of people. They tried to get rid of Indians

The US was at war with the Sioux Indians now and sent a war hero to Sioux territory. This man was named General Custer and he led the calvary with anywhere between 205 and 230 men depending on the day. Custer was one of those men who had a big head, he loved to brag, and, well, he had the right to since he became the first 23 year old to become a general in the US Army. When he was sent to South Dakota, Custer had one thing in mind and that was to find and fight any Sioux tribe in sight. Historians believed Custer was so focused on getting to the Sioux Tribes so he could run for president someday.

Burnett said it himself, “Murder is murder, and somebody must answer. Somebody must explain the streams of blood that flowed in the Indian country in the summer of 1838. Somebody must explain the 4000 silent graves that mark the trail of the Cherokees to their exile.” This event took place because American were searching for more land. The Cherokees were happy and healthy at their old homes, but once President Andrew signed the bill in 1830, making it the Indian Removal Act, the Indians had no control whatsoever and had to do what they were told.

1. Scalping was a cultural practice that certain Native American tribes had that was encouraged by the Europeans during the French and Indian war. England and France offered monetary compensation or an exchange of prisoner to Native American tribes for the scalps of their opponents. In the article, Bray explains how England and France’s “purpose was then to encourage the savages to take as many scalps as they could, and to know the number of the foe who had fallen.” This way, England and France managed to motive the natives into killing more of their opponents and, by the number of scalps, determine how many of their enemies’ men had fallen.

This article explains the tragic aftermath of Chris’s death. On February 2, 2013 Chris was shot and killed by a man named Eddie Ray Routh. Eddie was a war veteran and suffered from post traumatic stress. Chris and his best friend, Chad Littlefield, were both gunned down in the attempt to help Eddie. They were pronounced dead at the gun range.