an Indian policeman on the Reservation. Belle lived up to her new name and quickly Belle Starr (the bandit queen) took several lovers‚ Jim Starr‚ Blue Duck‚ Jack Spaniard and Jim French. She survived all but two of these men. While living in the Choctaw Nation‚ near the Canadian River‚ an unknown assassin shot her from ambush with a shotgun. Belle was taken to her cabin where she let her spirit go an hour later two days short before her 41st birthday. Neighbors then passed by the coffin while each
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in the eyes of the Native Americans would be unfair and irrelevant. A few reasons would be the Trail of Tears‚ the Five Civilized Tribes‚ and the fact that the Cherokee Nation went to court. There were Five Civilized Tribes‚ the Cherokee‚ Creek‚ Choctaw‚ Chickasaw‚ and Seminole. The Five Civilized Tribes started to take on the culture of their white neighbors‚ in the early 1800s. The fact that those five tribes were beginning to learn the culture of the settlers confirms that the Native American
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an attractive benefit and could be considered as a great source of motivation‚ however‚ since many tribes in the South were slave owners. In fact‚ the Choctaw for example had about six thousands slaves when the Civil War started and‚ because the Confederation loss of the war would mean the end of slavery‚ Native American tribes such as the Choctaw the Chickasaw and the Cherokee through Stand Watie defiance of the neutrality that was at first proclaimed by the Cherokee’s‚ sided with the Confederate
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number of sources.] 1. Many of William Faulkner’s novels are set in Yoknapatawpha County‚ a fictional part of Mississippi. Common knowledge 2. William Faulkner may have gotten the word Yoknapatawpha from a 1915 dictionary of the Choctaw language. Needs citation 3. The writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston died in poverty in 1960. Common knowledge 4. William Shakespeare was the only playwright of his generation known to have a long-standing relationship with a
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Americans still lived in their native lands. However‚ white men considered them a threat to peace. So‚ in 1838‚ the Federal government had what they called the "Five Civilized Tribes" removed from their native lands. These tribes were the Cherokee‚ Choctaw‚ Chickasaw‚ Creek‚ and Seminole. They were forced to march 800 miles from their home’s to the "Indian Territory"‚ which is modern-day Oklahoma. Under cruel conditions‚ the army forced the peaceful tribes through the cold‚ winter weather to their new
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that the tribes were out of the way there was more land to settle on. Many of the Native Americans suffered from diseases and even starvation on their ways to their other destinations. The five major tribes affected were the Cherokee‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaw‚ Creek‚ and Seminole. These were called The Civilized Tribes that moved into a more modern westernized culture. The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United
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N5213 Cultural Competency in Nursing Education Rachelle Hawk Module One Journal Entry: What does cultural competency mean to me? When I first started this course I began to ask myself‚ “Am I culturally competent?” Did I even know what cultural competency means? The Office of Minority Health (2005) describes cultural competency as “a set of congruent behaviors‚ attitudes‚ and policies that come together in a system‚ agency‚ or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural
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Andrew Jackson’s Indian Policies: Unbridled Aggression or Pragmatic Solution? "It seems not to be an established fact that they can not live in contact with a civilized community and prosper." Andrew Jackson believed that Indians were savages‚ incapable of any "civilized" intercommunication between themselves and whites. Through this belief Jackson declared that Indians need not be in contact with white settlers. Throughout Jackson’s life he had fought Indians‚ beginning with his campaign against
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Let The Indians Stay! Way before us‚ Americans came to this beautiful land called America‚ there were Indians who lived here. They were here more than one hundred before we came here.. How can it be fair for us to move them off their home? That’s why we should let the Indians stay. The Indians also were treated so unfairly and became modernized like us. So let the Indians stay. First of all the Indians were here way before we came. According to the article “Allow the Cherokee to Stay” by Joan Marshall
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The Atchafalaya River is a 137 mile long distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south‚ just west of the Mississippi River and is the fifth largest river in North America‚ by discharge. (From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia) The Atchafalaya River is navigable and provides a significant industrial shipping channel for the state of Louisiana‚ as well as the cultural heart of the Cajun Country. Fun fact it’s been closed
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