It was August of 1819 in Mississippi. Men were harvesting corn and beans. The smell of the Choctaw own acorn bread filled the air. All the children were prancing about, playing with friends, shooting squirrels with their little toy bows, and wrestling for the last bite of jerky. All but one child. That lonely little boy’s name was Koi. Koi never got to play with the other Choctaw boys, as he had to prepare to become chief. Koi looked at his father with his pleading icy blue eyes. “Pleeease Father?” The 9 year old boy begged. “Can I go play with the other boys and girls?” “For the last time, no!” Moshulatubbee bellowed, “You need training for when the time comes for you to be chief of the Choctaw!” “It’s not fair…” the raven haired boy muttered. “What was that?!” The …show more content…
The two lovers then began to leave the room, cautiously. “What is that disgraceful thing your holding?! I’m gonna need to see that. Give it to me.” The soldier motioned with his hand Koi hesitated, but reluctantly handed over the infant. “I’m just gonna take this thing out back and shoot it. We don’t need another damn helpless Indian on our hands, under our care! It’ll only make racket and waste our supplies.” Koi understood that something bad was going to happen to his son. He immediately took action, reaching for the infant. The soldier drew his gun and pushed Koi away. Issi snagged the baby and began to run. Koi stayed tightly behind her. The three fled out of the building, and ran into the woods. The white skin opened fire. Koi felt an extremely sharp pain in his gut, sending him to the ground, screaming in pain. Issi stopped and ran back, infant still in her arms. “Go… save yourself. Run where they will never find you. You will see me once again someday, I promise. Just keep our chief and yourself away from trouble. Good luck. I love you, Baby.” “But….” “Go on! You dont have much time…” Koi’s voice trailed off, and he took his last painful breath of
O’Connor himself wasn’t partially physically intimidating. This fact became abundantly clear once he stepped off his chair and approached me. While not necessarily short in stature, his seat gave him an extra few inches compared to his natural stance.
Tecumseh ,Shawnee war chief, was born at Old Piqua, on the Mad River in western Ohio. In 1774, his father, Puckeshinwa, was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant, and in 1779 his mother, Methoataske, accompanied those Shawnees who migrated to Missouri, later died. Raised by an older sister, Tecumpease, Tecumseh would play war games with other fellow youths in his tribe. Tecumseh accompanied an older brother, Chiksika, on a series of raids against frontier settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1780’s. Chiksika had a vision that he would not survive the battle at Buchanan’s station he went ahead as plan and attacked the stockade and was mortally wounded and was carried from the battle field and the dying warrior asked not to be buried but to be placed on a hill. Tecumseh and the other’s retreated back to a Cherokee village where most went back to Ohio while Tecumseh and some other warriors stayed behind. After that Tecumseh went on mostly hunting but occasionally attacking settler’s. After that moved back towards home and come to find out that the Shawnee’s had moved on to where it’s much safer. The battle of Fallen Timber’s broke confidence in British assistance as well as many casualties. Pissed off by the Indian defeat, he refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville (1795). In the 1800’s Tecumseh began to show signs of a prominent war chief. He led a group of yong Indian warriors to a village on the White River in east-central Indiana. There in 1805 Lalawethika ex...
C., Wallace, Anthony F. Long, bitter trail Andrew Jackson and the Indians. Ed. Eric Foner. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. Print.
Wells, Samuel J. After removal the Choctaw in Mississippi. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Print.
Located in the popular Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is the tallest waterfall in California. Every year, mother nature’s breathtaking beauty attracts millions of people from around the world. People hike for three long and fatiguing hours in anticipation of witnessing forceful water rushing down the steep mountain from 2,425 feet above. Last summer, my family and I backpacked through the Yosemite Falls Trail and I came to learn what a truly exhausting experience it is.
Ellis, Jerry. Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. New
Perdue, Theda, and Michael Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Print.
Native Americans, namely the Cherokees, had been living on the lands of the eventual Americas without European contact for years until the 1700s. After contact was made and America had gained freedom, people like President Andrew Jackson, believed that the Cherokees should be removed from the land that was rightfully the United States’. President Jackson even hired Benjamin F. Curry of Tennessee to help with the removal of the Cherokees from east of the Mississippi River. Curry believed that his job was to try to drive the Cherokees to either want to leave without a second thought or sign a treaty agreeing to America’s terms. Curry’s actions led to the natives of the Cherokee nation’s objections of being removed so miserably. Many complained about how their significant others or children were either forcibly removed or held to get the natives to agree to leave. Some of the natives decided that they would try to fight their way out of being removed, but some, like Rebecca Neugin, a member of the Cherokee nation’s father were persuaded not to resist so that they or their families would not be harmed more than necessary. When some of the Americans, like Evan Jones, saw this, they tried to spread awareness of how the Cherokees were being treated,...
The Choctaw were told that the Americans in Washington cared little for the situation. They wanted the Choctaw moved on their own, or by military force. The Indians were believed to be ignorant savages, but they were industrious farmers, merchants, and businessmen of all types. Some were educated people, many were Christians. They even had an organized system of government and a codified body of law. Some of these people were not even Indians, some were strangers and orphans had been taken in over the years. These were people who did not deserve what they went through.
The silence was deafening… with each step, the lump in my throat was expanding, almost ridding me of all oxygen. My heart was pounding erratically and my hand, firmly gripping Scout’s costume was now soaked in perspiration. Amidst the overcast night, a dark shadow consumed Maycomb. The thick air was a blanket of humidity that offered not security, but the assurance of a storm. The pageant was but a distant memory by this point. We had only left a few minutes earlier but my thoughts were congested by an uneasy presence. The warm wind whispered through the rustling leaves. They seemed to dance about my feet, which wouldn’t have been so bad, had the night not been pitch black and unnerving. Instead, it felt as though I could tumble at any moment. I was immensely regretting my decision to reject a ride home when Scout burst,
The movement westward during the late 1800’s created new tensions among already strained relations with current Native American inhabitants. Their lands, which were guaranteed to them via treaty with the United States, were now beginning to be intruded upon by the massive influx of people migrating from the east. This intrusion was not taken too kindly, as Native American lands had already been significantly reduced due to previous westward conquest. Growing resentment for the federal government’s Reservation movement could be felt among the native population. One Kiowa chief’s thoughts on this matter summarize the general feeling of the native populace. “All the land south of the Arkansas belongs to the Kiowas and Comanches, and I don’t want to give away any of it” (Edwards, 203). His words, “I don’t want to give away any of it”, seemed to a mantra among the Native Americans, and this thought would resound among them as the mounting tensions reached breaking point.
De Rosier, Arthur H. Jr. The Removal of the Choctaw Indians. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville; 1970
The Choctaw Indians are native to the southeast and through the Trail of Tears; they were relocated to parts of Oklahoma. In the 19th century the Choctaws were one known as one of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” The Choctaws agreed to man different treaties, but they were the first Native Americans who were forced with the Indian Removal Act. The Choctaw were pushed out because the European Americans wanted to expand their settlement. In 1831, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, some of the Choctaws were part of the first major non-European ethnic groups to become US citizens.
The Cherokee “creation story” as described by Sarah Steele asserts that it was the efforts of the “great buzzard from Halun’lati” which, tired from his flight to the Cherokee land to see if it was dried, flapped his wings and thereby made the mountains and hills and valleys. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Cherokee were a “numerous and strong people who controlled an immense area of land, spanning from the western parts of modern-day Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina well into Georgia, Kentucky, and Alabama.” Attached as Appendix A is a listing of important dates in the history of the Cherokee Nation. This listing demonstrates that beginning in 1629, the Cherokee came into increased contact
Throughout most of the Cherokee peoples’ history, the practice and acceptance of a form of institutional slavery has often been ignored by historians. Worse still, the few discourses that have tried to extrapolate upon this issue have had to contend with the prevailing notion that it only existed primarily as a byproduct of European colonialism. Surprisingly, historians who have taken up the cause have confronted an incredible array of roadblocks and dead ends. None predicted that something as volatile and far reaching as slavery within the various Cherokee ethnic groups would be so difficult to search for. What little that has been gathered is inexplicably tied to sources of which have racial and prejudicial biases. Despite this, historians