Chief Washakie What event in history made him memorable Chief Washakie earned his Reputation by being a fierce Warrior, diplomat, skilled politician, a great leader of the Shoshone people, he loved to go to war, and he had a ton of determination, and he was a friend to the white man. At first Chief, Washakie was not very famous. But he ended up becoming very memorable because he was a brave and good leader.(johnson3) He was born in 1804, or somewhere in that time no one knew (Washakie means shoots straight or shoots on the Fly) his father was a flathead and Indian it's where they put a board against your forehead, and they made it flat. When Chief Washakie was little, he …show more content…
He Finally went to live with the Shoney people, and after he got there some Blackfeet raided and took some horses, Washakie went after them he caught up to them after six hundred miles. He killed all the black feet and cut their scalps to show that he took their lives. That explains the determination. That one thing he has made everyone see something in him. So later when the old chief died, he was elected to be a leader, and he was the leader of the shone people. Then the white man came to Wyoming and started the organ trail, and other tribes came up and killed the white man, but chief Washakie said nor did not kill the white man he made a treaty to protect the white man if they gave him something for his duties. Once a freezing white man came into Washakie camp. his feet were freezing, chief Washakie saw this told him to stay where he was. When he came back he had one of his wives, and he said to him to put his feet on her belly and tomorrow he would be able to walk, and the next day the man could walk. "The white man kills our game, captures our furs, and sometimes feeds his herds upon our meadows. And your great and mighty government-oh sir, I hesitate, for I cannot tell the half! It does not protect our rights…I say again; the government does not keep its
This Blackfoot tribe survived by hunting and working the land. The tribe believed that a women having twins was bad luck. Tall Woman and the dad had to prove that they handle the work and nurse to babies to keep both children. The mom proved it by doing her chores and caring for her babies. The kids were named Twin Boy and Twin Girl.
The battle of Iwo Jima was an important battle for the Navajoes because without them the entire battle would have been lost. They created an unbreakable code that were used for everything from food and supplies to battleships and planes . There is even a picture of a Navajo raising the american flag with everybody securing the victory for the americans. Navajoes were key to winning the war and they were
This metaphorical language contributes to the author’s argument that slavery is immoral and should be rid of because it emphasizes freedom of speech as an “organ.” This “organ” is necessary for survival since it will allow blacks to speak their mind and others to hear their complaints.
The Shoshone chief washakie was born at Bitterroot valley. He was born in 1815.Chief washakie father was killed in a battle with the Blackfeet. His mother was a Shoshoni. He was important to the American history because he was a renowned warrior first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper. Chief washakie was noted for his exploits in fighting and also for his friendship with the white pioneers.
Kamehameha was a warrior before the unification of the Hawaiian Islands. Kamehameha was just a district chief on the Big Island and Kamehameha soon ruled the Big Island after he and his men became stronger, He soon ruled other islands one at a time until eventually he had unified all the Hawaiian islands. Kamehameha was very smart in battles, using foreign weapons and foreign battle strategies then Kamehameha became an administrator after the unification. Kamehameha was an effective leader because he was smart, cared for the land, and cared for his
Abstract We love to hear stories told by our parents, grandparents, family, and friends, but for the Oyate, stories told by their ancestors are how they know and understand creation and how they came to be. Stories of creation, battles, tradition and so on have been passed down from generation to generation and are still being shared today. The Lakota people did not have a written language but they did use shapes and images to translate stories the best they could. That is why they heavily relied on the oral stories that were shared in the Lakota history videos and Lakota Ehanni Stories. Oral Teachings
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.
It confirms how white supremacist discrimination caused Congress to fail by conveying the opinion that Black Americans are less worthy of participation in national governance than White Americans. This reveals the strong white supremacist ideals that were present in the South and made it challenging to establish laws intended to grant African Americans equal rights. White supremacists resisted Congress' attempts to guarantee equal rights for Black Americans, believing that it threatened their way of life. Congress' attempts to provide equal rights for Black Americans who had been emancipated were unsuccessful due to this discrimination and hostility. Equally, white supremacist discrimination is also represented in document
The United States sent armies into the Native American lands, mistreating the Native Americans, and caused trouble against them by sparkling conflicts and wars. “It is not, of course, to be understood that the government of the United States is at the mercy of Indians; but thousands of its citizens are, even thousands of families. Their exposed situation on the extreme verge of settlement affords a sufficient justification to the government for buying off the hostility of the Savages, excited and exasperated as they are…by the invasion of their hunting grounds and the threatened extinction of their game.” (Document 4) The United States government introduced policies for Native Americans to have a better life, but in fact, they kept them in
Losing one’s cultural knowledge, and therefore the reality of their culture, allows others to have control over their collective and individual consciousness as well as their destiny. In this case, it is clear that the United States government has had the dominant relationship over the Native
In the United States Constitution it states, “The migration of such persons (slaves) … shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808;…”(Doc J). Here Americans are viewing Native Americans and blacks equally in one big social class. In addition to this Document P states, “The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians ; their lans and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed…”(Doc P). Here the Government is showing more respect to these different social classes and allowing people of lower social classes to live peacefully and unharmed. In relation to this Document D shows many people of different social classes all playing a game of pool together (Doc D).
We are ‘settlers’. We take up land that belongs to us, American citizens, by paying the government price for it.” (Burton 238). This comment on a deeper context was the view and beliefs of American in 1848. Additionally, the social hierarchy is apparent and supports Alamar’s comment that there is inequality and prejudices within the U.S. government.
The main difference that we see between both racial ethnic groups is that white Americans believed that they could strip Native Americans from their culture and civilize them while “nurture could not improve the nature of blacks” (67). Although some Native Americans did try to live under the laws of white Americans, they were eventually betrayed and forced to leave the
In The Meaning of Freedom, activist Angela Davis critiques the plausibility of democracy and collective freedom in the United States. By examining parallels between slavery and the carceral state, Davis contends that the two systems mutually characterize black people as disposable and compels them to incapacitation. Focusing on the two oppressive systems’ reliance on the maintenance of ignorance, Davis discusses how this ignorance is connected to America’s dominant sentiments of capitalism and self-interest, which, altogether, perpetuate cycles of abuse that disproportionately harm communities of color and lower-class peoples. As a result, this propels the creation of social hierarchies which, because it inherently cultivates inequalities, causes America’s classification as a “democracy” to be impossible.
In Life Among the Piutes, sarah winnemucca hopkins describes what happens when soldiers came to their reservation based off what white settlers tell the government. The most shocking instance of this happened when Winnemucca encountered a group of soldier who told her the white settlers accused the natives of stealing cattle, “the soldiers rode up to their [meaning the Piute’s] encampment and fired into it, and killed almost all the people that were there… after the soldiers had killed but all bur some little children and babies… the soldiers took them too… and set the camp on fire and threw them into the flames to see them burned alive”(78). This is an abhorrent act that is unthinkable in a functioning society. The natives had done nothing but want to hold some shred of land from the settlers who had taken everything from them and are exterminated like vermin. This was something that stayed hidden from many white settlers because of its barbarism and by exposing it Winnemucca truly educates the reader, past and present, on how natives are