Henry Stuart‚ author of “Report from Cherokee Country (1776)”‚ was the chief deputy superintendent of the Cherokee following the French and Indian War. After some side-research‚ I could not find any reports on exactly the function of a chief deputy superintendent is in Native American culture‚ however; I did find that a person who is in a deputy position‚ acts as a chief executive within a tribe. Throughout the passage‚ Henry Stuart tells the story of a council meeting between the Native American
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The program Habitat for Humanity was brought to life by Clarence Jordan in Americus Alabama. On the Koinonia Farm‚ Millard and Linda Fuller dreamt up the idea of “partnership housing”. Partnership Housing is where someone who needs shelter works with other volunteers to build affordable housing that is also cosmetically and structurally appealing. The very first family involved with the program was a couple named Beau and Emma with their five children. They previously lived in a hobble that was not
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“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American‚ the Indian‚ was an inferior race…From the sixteenth century forward‚ blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population.”-Martin Luther King Jr. In this quote‚ King is referring to the policy that the United States encompassed to take hold of the land pertaining to the Native Americans‚ The Indian Removal
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The Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 was established to hear any claims of the Indian tribes against the federal government for the unfair treatments. The federal government tried to utilize this act to deal with the long period of resentment of Indians as a reward for their contributions in the World War II. Hundreds of petitions from the Indians were submitted under this act. This act was positive to the Indians and the federal government has spend over 800 million dollars in dealing with these
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President Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy in the 1830’s raised many questions as to whether or not it was constitutional. To start off the Indian removal policy was a law that authorized the president to negotiate with southern tribes for them to remove themselves to federal territory west of the Mississippi river in return for their native land that they occupied. Although‚ it was basically mandatory that the indians move from their lands there were different responses to the removal policy
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During the late 19th century Americans wanted to expand their land for the greater or their people. Little did they know their impact on the natives that occupied the west. The amount of land taken from them was so exponential that if it hadn’t happened we wouldn’t be where we are today(doc 1).Although there were reservations for the native americans‚ they used cruel methods to for them out of their land. Some examples of these are forcing them out or if they resisted they would have a battle. Other
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“What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousands savages to our extensive republic..."(http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1157726) Andrew Jackson did not like Native Americans‚ likening them to savages. Jackson disliked Native American’s so much that he made a plan to move them off valuable land. Jackson did more than just the move Native Americans using the Indian removal act‚ he also started the Nullification Crisis and Fore act. Andrew Jackson had also inspired
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The relation between the early colonists and Native-American Indians through American settlers and Native-Americans changed so drastically due to many tragic factors. Although the biggest factor would have to be that the settlers saw the Native-Americans as savages and felt that they needed to alter their cultural ways to the European ways. The Sand Creek massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn were two events that greatly affected the relations among the settlers and the Native Americans. These
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Indian Wars were series of conflicts between white settler or government of United States and Native Americans. Conflicts started almost immediately after settlers begun to move to the North America and ended in the early 20th century. During this time all the Native Tribes were one by one moved to the reservation where a lot of them live until today. They had to change the way they lived and their culture was almost destroyed. They weren’t prepared for this change and today’s Native Americans have
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In the annual editions article‚ “The Nez Perce Flight for Justice” Edmunds discusses the Nez Perce Indians’ trials and tribulations faced when fleeing Idaho in search of a better life. Before 1877‚ the Nez Perce were proud of their relationship with the US and tried hard to avoid conflict‚ but soon they were being forced to relocate‚ and the young tribe leader‚ Chief Joseph‚ reluctantly agreed. While they agreed to relocate‚ after violence‚ they quickly realized that they needed to flee and had to
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