After watching all four episodes of "We Shall Remain", I think back to all of them and some parts stand out to me more than others. These being my "take aways". In episode 1, I thought there were the most take aways than in the other 3 episodes. This being because most of us have heard the story of the pilgrims and the Native Americans but episode 1 really cleared things up. There was a lot more detail from what I remember or from what I was taught about this encounter and the pilgrims journey to the new world. The pilgrims ended up mistreating and taking advantage of the indians which lead to a long lasting conflict with Native Americans and other groups. When watching that episode and hearing the full story with all the details, it really made me realize who was in the wrong. In the beginning of episode 2, two Native Americans really clarify the meaning of the title, "We Shall Remain". There conversation goes along the lines of how they agree that this land is theirs and that nobody has the right to remove them from where they have always been. One man states, "the master of life has appointed us this place to light our fires and …show more content…
He was well known above many Native Americans and Mexicans. One day his mom, wife and three children were massacred. He immediately cut his hair short, according to episode four, this is how many Native Americans morn a loss ((4) We Shall Remain). He was angry and took revenge on the Mexicans for the massacre. He dodged bullets and killed them with knives when his arrows ran out. The Mexicans had never seen anything like it before and this is where his name became known and feared. Many westerners feared him and look for protection from the military. After chasing and hunting down the Apaches, they were finally transported to Florida, one by one they surrendered with Geronimo being the last. Even the innocent ones spent 27 years as prisoners of
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It had previously been the policy of the American government to remove and relocate Indians further and further west as the American population grew, but there was only so much...
We won’t budge is an autobiography by Manthia Diawara which was published in 2003. This book contains the author’s own life experiences in his home country as well as in both France and America where the he goes on to include how his fellow immigrants were mistreated and struggled to establish themselves in the new countries. Manthia Diawara argues that most mistreatments faced by immigrants like himself had much to do with racism rather than just being immigrants. Racism “Paul Berg’s Dictionary of New Words in
We Still Live Here, a film by Anne Makepeace, is about the reclamation of the Massachusetts Wampanoag language by the linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird, the creator of the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project. The film illustrates the hardships and struggles in which Jessie Little Doe Baird and her colleagues had to go through, translating ancient Wampanoag texts, reuniting members of contemporary Wampanoag communities, and reclaiming the language itself.
... “ the majority of [Native Americans] turned to the invaders’ cultures and religious for empowerment, knowledge and skills with which to sustain native identities and values in other guises” , many of them stilled called themselves “true people” by keeping their native names (116-117).
In Chapter 8 of Major Problems in American Immigration History, the topic of focus shifts from the United States proper to the expansion and creation of the so called American Empire of the late Nineteenth Century. Unlike other contemporary colonial powers, such as Britain and France, expansion beyond the coast to foreign lands was met with mixed responses. While some argued it to be a mere continuation of Manifest Destiny, others saw it as hypocritical of the democratic spirit which had come to the United States. Whatever their reasons, as United States foreign policy shifted in the direction of direct control and acquisition, it brought forth the issue of the native inhabitants of the lands which they owned and their place in American society. Despite its long history of creating states from acquired territory, the United States had no such plans for its colonies, effectively barring its native subjects from citizenship. Chapter 8’s discussion of Colonialism and Migration reveals that this new class of American, the native, was never to be the equal of its ruler, nor would they, in neither physical nor ideological terms, join in the union of states.
In the documentary “We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower” it shows the relationship between the settlers and Native Americans. At the begging of the documentary it shows how the two different cultural came along and shared their foods, lands and other goods. It points out how good was their relationship and how it turned at the end, war and diseases killed too many of the both sides. In the film “We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower” it proves that Indians people were religious people when Massasoit says “ Please, heavenly father, watch over your child Massasoit” (we shall remain).
The colonists who first arrived in America came to this land because they saw an opportunity to regenerate their religion and to live according to it without subjugation. The immense size of the land sugge...
Throughout history, the United States had come off as a stubborn nation that would take what they wanted at any cost. This was prevalent in both cases of expansion as the Americans risked war and national safety for the sake of gaining land, or even merely for proving a point. During the early years of expansion, the Americans had pushed aside the Native Americans and whoever else inhabited the land they wanted. They believed that the land was rightfully theirs and that every one else was merely squatting on their territory. This idea was continued into the early twentieth century as the Americans looked to the oceans for new territories to their kingdom. This idea is greatly exemplified in document 'E', in which Senator Albert J. Beveridge delivers a speech to Congress, saying that, "...and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world..."
One of the critical tasks that faced the new nation of the United States was establishing a healthy relationship with the Native Americans (Indians). “The most serious obstacle to peaceful relations between the United States and the Indians was the steady encroachment of white settlers on the Indian lands. The Continental Congress, following [George] Washington’s suggestion, issued a proclamation prohibiting unauthorized settlement or purchase of Indian land.” (Prucha, 3) Many of the Indian tribes had entered into treaties with the French and British and still posed a military threat to the new nation.
Document 5 of the Council of 1973 states that the federal government had directed U.S. troops to destroy squatters homes and other structures but the commissioners pointed to the existing crops and homes of settlers as justification for U.S. ownership of Indian land. The commissioners had said that the time had come for the Indians to sign over that land to the United States (pg 50). They see this as a go-ahead on taking and controlling the Indian’s land. Thomas Jefferson in the Second Inaugural Address states, “humanity enjoins us to teach them (Indian’s) agriculture and the domestic arts: to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence and liberally furnish them with the implements of husbandry and household use” (pg 56). He is trying to say that the Indian’s do not know how to survive on their own and that they need the help from the settlers on how to survive, when in reality they have already been surviving for so long without their help. He also tries to domesticate them saying that they “furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.” He wants Indian’s to live by the white mans mean of life and not live how they have been living for already so many years. In Andrew Jackson’s State of the Union Address, he shows similarities of wanting to domesticate and change the way the Indians live. He says,
Throughout American history there are patterns of injustice, inequality, and cruelty. This thread began when the Europeans discovered their new world was already inhabited by others, the “Native Americans”. Although they both tried to live in peace with each other, the Europeans thirst for power and domination of the new land led to the unjust, and cruel removal of the “native” people from their home. This idea originated under the rule of President Jefferson, and his removal policy, which he believed was the, “only was to ensure the survival of the Indian culture” (Intro. p 28). While the President, and the people, told themselves they were simply helping the Native Americans, they had ulterior motives
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.
The Cherokees have the right to stay to their homelands and not be moved to different place because they were the first one there and they own it. The Indians should be allowed to stay because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Jackson or the state of Georgia cannot force them to move, only few of their chiefs signed the treaty and they had already created their own nation where they have their own language, printing press, government, agriculture and economic. The Native Americans should be allowed to stay and remain to their
For me personally, there were four major takeaways. I learned a lot about West Virginia, my group members, Coalfield Development, and myself. This was the deepest into West Virginia I had ever been. Beguiled by the quietness in the mountains and forests. I couldn’t help but observe every small town, holler, and bend around every corner. If there was one thing I learned from people from each town and my group as well, it was that they have a lot of pride in their state and where they come from. Everywhere I went there was someone or something would me of West Virginia pride. My personal theory is that it’s got something to do with those beautiful Appalachian peaks. Maybe just a little bit.