Ghost Dance: The Mistreatment Of Native Americans

When Okonkwo was faced with his enemies, he makes a rash decision and kills the messenger. This was a fateful act because it could urge Umuofia to attack the missionaries, but Umuofia decided to not go to war. Okonkwo explains how the white missionaries have come in and converted all the Igbo people into their religion until their own tribes become too weak to fight back against them. The white missionaries described by Okonkwo, “brought a lunatic religion, but he had also built a trading store

Okonkwo Falls Apart Chinua Achebe offers a rare look at the natives perspective during colonialism in his work Things Fall Apart. The central struggle in the main character Okonkwo is that he is beginning to lose his way of life, and he is not able to do anything about it. Conflicts in religious beliefs with the arrival of the missionaries heightens Okonkwo 's internal aggression, and his inability to adapt leads to his downfall. Because the missionaries do not respect the Igbo religion, tension in villagers like Okonkwo increases. Once the white missionaries arrive in the village of Igbo they immediately start criticizing the natives religion.

White Americans loathed the Indians because they were “undeserving” of the fertile land they had. White settlers wanted this land so bad they burned down house and towns, stole animals and lived in land that didn’t belong to them. They tormented the native Americans for decades and then the state governments started passing laws to strip the Indians of their rights. In two separate cases, (Cherokee

Alexander tortured many of his victims and then he killed them. Another reason why he was a villain because he killed members of his family so that he would become the ultimate successor to the throne. This should never be how a king becomes the ruler of his kingdom, ever. Even though I believe that Alexander the Great is a villain, others may think he was a hero. They may think that because he had conquered so many other nations.

In the proposals prior to the journey, officials made people believe it would be an easy journey. The language of the Indian Removal Act foreshadowed the horrific treatment of the Native Americans referring to them as savages and barbarians. The actions towards Native Americans were humiliating and degrading including being dragged from their homes and buried in unmarked graves. These Native Americans were forced to leave their entire livelihood behind only to support the white cause, which did not benefit them in any

Many wars happened because the white people weren’t loyal to them, so due to those problems,therefore the Indians hated them. All of their food which was bison, also meaning buffalo, were killed by the military troops and the starving Sioux tribe decided to fight back and to defend themselves from this outrageous problem. Lots of Native Americans and white men died, which in this case, the Sioux fled. The influence the Americans did on their tribe culture made many changes. They offered many advantages and opportunities.

The Natives are proud of their culture and would practise rituals to appease Mother Nature. Their rituals or dances were seen as uncivilized, and in some cases, scared the white settlers living on Indian lands. Soon, the government “…made it a crime for American Indians to practice tribal rituals within their borders. Chiefs who led such religious ceremonies would be fined and jailed” (Dudley 66). The Americans used fear to try to “civilise” the Indians because if they were going to be near the American society they had to blend in.

I have come to address a major problem that our people have been facing. The white men are taking everything from us, they have taken our life, our language, our families, culture, and now our land. When will it stop? We can’t even fight back, because if we do, not only will we get killed, our culture becomes destroyed as well. Look at the Cheyenne tribe, they try to fight for their rights and what do they get?

“ ‘My father, they have killed me!’ as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear, Okonkwo draw his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak.”(61). Earlier in this paragraph Ikemefuna thought of Okonkwo as his father yet he still killed him. The thought of being weak in front of others or being thought as weak drives some to

How can we call ourselves a nation that is trying to prevent racism and discrimination when we still have a racist sports name, which was invented in a very low and racial time for our long native people? Discriminating them and basically stalking the Native Americans of their rough history, this name is in every way disrespectful and filled with disgust. This name was invented when there were social policies to eliminate Native American tribes and Civilization Regulations, which banned and outlawed their traditions. How is this name not offensive and how was it meant out of respect? The Redskins are hated by so many organizations, like the NCAI, other tribes, Civil Rights organizations, school boards and even public officials that there is no way they can get away with the name “Redskins”.

4. The Sioux Ghost Dance was considered a form of rebellion because it was building camaraderie. They were remembering their dead relatives and the mistreatment by the Americans. They were trying to “return to the methods and meaning of life that predated the arrival of white Christians, a renewal of all that forever had been Native Americans”. (Townsend,

After a beginning of worshiping and honoring of these thought to be gods, the Aztecs moved to fear for their city and their lives. A fear that was rightly justified by the merciless killings of their people and their kings. The Spanish wiped out an entire nation with their weapons and their diseases, only further proving that the relationship between these two great people was one that was destined to fail from the first footstep on Mexican soil by the Spanish. With the overpowering greed and disregard for life, the Spaniards took over the city of Tenotchlan and never looked back, never regretting the choices they made out of gluttony. The relationship between the Aztecs and the Spanish declined rapidly over time, as the Spanish wasted no time in murdering solely for the accumulation of gold and land.