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Creek Town
665 wordsThe name "Creek" came from the shortening of Ocheese Creek Indians a name given by the English to the native people living along the Ocheese Creek. In time, the name was given to all groups of the Native American Confederacy. All tribes living in Georgia were known to be good hunters and farmers so food was usually not a problem within the tribes. Foods ranging from coastal varieties to fruits and berries. Farmers were noted to be very good at their job. Corn, rice, and potatoes were few of the ...
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Individual Reservations For The Southern Tribes
1,231 wordsWEST AS A LAND OF CONQUEST. Citing the Sioux as the example, explain the conquest of the Natives. When did the conflicts occur and where did they occur What were the Anglo American objectives and what were the Means What was the outcome As you stated that most all of the Plains Indians were toughs fighters, but the tribes that became the most powerful were the Comanches in the South the Sioux in the North. 1860 Indian sovereignty had been responsible for the governments efforts to erect t perman...
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Tragedy The Author Helen Hunt Jackson
961 wordsA Century Of Dishonor, a Triumph or Tragedy The author Helen Hunt Jackson had hoped for a triumph over the mistreatment, abuse, and mainly the deaths of seemingly innocent Native Americans with her novel, A Century Of Dishonor. However, when the hard cold reality set in, her novel was merely a small tragedy in the battle for the Native Americans that sadly went unnoticed. What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The...
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Success Of Foxwoods Resort Casino
1,456 wordsThere are many reasons why people gamble and what the advantages and disadvantages are of risking your bank account on the roll of the dice or the luck of the draw. I originally set out to try and explain why people gamble, but I realized that gambling is just as much of a business or industry as anything else. I researched Foxwoods casino, in CT, and the business behind that. From there I will attempt to explain the "cause and effect" of gambling. Gambling has made much more sense to me now, an...
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Indian Natives
1,127 wordsThe very survival of the early settlers to the New World would depend much upon the generosity of the Native Americans. Had the natives not been so helpful and had instead violently resisted the newcomers, European settlers might not have been so eager to come settle this new land. Both Jamestown and Plymouth would depend upon the goodwill of the native people for their initial survival while establishing their settlements. The Indians not only introduced the area's indigenous food sources but a...
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Famous Indians Peter Pitchlynn
411 wordsFamous Indians Peter Pitchlynn: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn was born in 1806. He was born to a Choctaw mother and an English father. In 1774 Peter's grad father Isaac Pitchlynn traveled over to Choctaw country and settled. When Isaac came he was accompanied by his son John Pitchlynn. Isaac started a famous trading post that he named after the Choctaw. Peter was known by the name of Hatchotucknee better known as the snapping turtle. Since Peter was half white he was brought up with the white American...
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Anasazi Indians From The Scattered References
555 wordsThe Anasazi Indians From the scattered references made about the ancient Anasazi Indians in Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time, one can identify several cultural characteristics of this mysterious tribe. One can discover how they lived, where they lived, their religion, simple day to day activities, and mysteries about their culture. Even though many references are made about this tribe, people will never know the truth, for there is an unsolved mystery to why the Anasazi disappeared. Even to this...
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Cherokee Chief
1,035 wordsThe Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee's were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to go over background on every one of them, so I'm going to focus on the Cherokee's since many of their ways and customs are so similar to all the other tribes in the East. When Europeans first...
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Plateau Indians
303 wordsEricsson Abad Washington State History 1. The plateau Indians generally lived east of the mountains, on the Columbian Plateau. The Coastal Indians lived in Western Washington. Coastal groups had frequent contact with some groups farther north. Plateau tribes had contact with Coastal tribes and also with Plains Indians from east of the Rocky Mountains. Each year Native Americans from many parts of the region would meet at favorite fishing grounds to fish. Two most important resources in the Coast...
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New Jersey Long Before The Europeans
1,274 wordsThe Lenni-Lenape were organized into three subtribes: In the North, were the Mins i "the people of the stony country" In the Central area, were the Unami "the people down the river" In the South, were the Unilachtigo "the people who lived near the ocean" Each subtribe had a sub-chief (saki ma) and the Lenni-Lenape usually considered the Unami saki mi to be chief of all subtribes. From the map you can see where the trails were that they used to move between their villages and their summer residen...
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Indians On The Reservation
1,565 wordsThe novel 'Reservation Blues' does not describe or deal with real Indians. The real Native Americans were forever destroyed by the government the second that they set foot upon the makeshift reservation. That very second saw the perish of all the age-long values and traditions that, before that moment, defined, raised, and watched over every Indian boy and girl, every Indian husband and wife, and every Indian father and mother. The U.S. government easily and nonviolently accomplished what the ar...
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Social With Other Tribe Of Indians
1,706 wordsIroquois Indians: World views and Stereotypes The Iroquois Indians have a commitment to collective responsibility and also have related attitudes towards property ownership. These concepts have had great meaning to the Iroquois and have shaped and influenced their society greatly. It has shaped they way the Seneca formed their economic systems, political systems, social relationships, and ideology and religion. This has led to many stereotypes and many different worldviews about the Iroquois Ind...
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Long Within The Caddo Tribe
810 wordsThe Caddo Indians, or properly called Cadodacho Indians, belonged to the Caddoan family, which consisted of several tribes originally from lower Red River, Louisiana, eastern Texas, and Southern Arkansas. These tribes included the Wichita, Ki chai, Pawnee, and Ari kara. The Caddo were talented farmers, and extremely hard workers. Even in the worst of weather, they would occupy themselves by making bows and arrows, and the women would create beautiful works of pottery out of clay. Besides from be...
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Cheyenne Indian Tribe
833 wordsI am going to write about the Cheyenne Indian tribe. I will explain all about its culture, environment, religion, housing, food, social life, beliefs, values, and where they lived. It will be very interesting to know how they lived and what heritage they left us. The Cheyenne Indians lived in the Great Plains at east of the Rocky Mountains and West of Mississippi River and the place they before lived was in the eastern of United States, the Montana Great Plains at East of the Rocky Mountains and...
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Delaware Tribe
1,359 wordsThe Delaware Complaint One of the main issues among the Iroquois tribes and the Pennsylvanians was that of the "Walking Purchase" and the Delaware Complaint against the contract. Between 1630 and 1767 the Lenni Lenape Indians of New Jersey and Pennsylvania signed many deeds of land to colonists that numbered around 800. Little did the Indian people know, the Europeans would use the land to eventually push the Native Americans out of their homeland. One man named William Penn claimed to have disc...
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Reports In The Jesuit Relations
444 wordsResponse to The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents When I think of the colonization of a new country, I think of the building of new towns, the establishing of new trade routes, and the cultivating of new crops. The Jesuits, however, had quite a different idea. The Jesuits' central purpose in all of their expeditions was spreading their religion. While I knew that this was their fundamental goal, I did not comprehend the extent to which they pursued it. In every new area they colonized, from ...
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Corps And The Walla Wallas
1,171 wordsDuring their expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Met and Encountered many different Indian tribes. Since Lewis and Clark met so many tribes they decided that they would greet every Indian tribe the same way. Some of the tribes greeted them with gifts, while others greeted them with immediate violence. Lewis and Clark met with the Arikara Indians on October 8, 1804. When they met the Arikara Indians, only a small population of their tribe had existed. They found three Arikara villages,...
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Certain Indians From The Iroquois Nation
2,640 wordsBefore the white man the story of Iroquois Indians began long before the white explorers, traders, and settlers reached the shores of the New World. The Iroquois originally lived in some unknown part of the North America. According to legend, these Indians were instructed by the Great Spirit to move into the Northeast. There they carved a territory for themselves in the middle of a rival group of Indians, the Algonquin's. The Iroquois settled in beautiful and rich lands of northern New York Stat...
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Indian's On Their Journey To Canada
1,153 wordsThe book The Unredeemed Captive is a story about the French-Indian raid on the small town of Deerfield Massachusetts. The raid is not a total surprise to the people of Deerfield, they find out a few days prior to the incident. They hear of towns east of them being attacked. The town of Deerfield did not feel that they were to be affected by the Indians. These few extra days to prepare for the "Savages", did not help out, in protecting the town. The Indians came, and wreaked havoc on the small co...
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Lake Creek Site
664 words"Lake Creek: A Woodland Site in the Texas Panhandle" by Jack T. Hughes Jack Hughes wrote this journal to report the results of some initial investigations of an Indian campsite with probable Woodland affiliations in the Panhandle of Texas. Hughes reports this to help the reader better understand the existence and both lifestyles and habits of the Indians in this area. The site is located on the J. Events Haley Ranch in the eastern part of Hutchinson County in Texas. It is situated on the west ba...
