The American Indian Movement shows similar issues compared to the Standing Bear Trial, but in a different time period. The Standing Bear Trial began on May1, 1879 and ended the 12th, as the Movement began in 1968. The purpose of the Trial and Movement had similarities. The Trial and Movement went along separate paths but had similarities. The Trial and Movement outcomes were separate but had similarities. Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca tribe were forcefully removed from their homeland in Nebraska and put onto reservation land in Oklahoma. Many of the Ponca began to get sick from diseases, such as malaria. They were not accustomed to this new environment, and no provisions were made in order for the Ponca to survive. Standing Bear’s son requested …show more content…
The American Indian Movement had to fight so their rights would not be taken away. Without fighting for their rights, they would not have gotten any, therefore the Trial and Movement were of great importance. In the Trial of Standing Bear, Bear states he felt as bad as the rest of the Ponca and wished to go back onto his land, in this case, was not sold but they have been forced away from. Bear says when his son was dying he asked Bear to bring him back and bury him there. Bear told the Judge that he wanted to live the rest of his life on his land and be buried there. In court, Webster and Poppleton defended standing bear. Lambertson went against him using the Dred Scott V. Sandford case, which argued an Indian was not a citizen of the US. The case also argued an Indian was not permitted to sue in its courts. Standing Bear took a stand for himself in court. Bear stated “This hand is not the same color as yours, but if you pierce it I shall feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be the same color as yours. I am a man. The same God made us both.” Lambertson stated he would not call any witnesses and would rely only on the facts of the case, which shocked Webster and Poppleton. Marchers of the movement began making a stand for themselves as
Fishing and hunting have been at the core of many American Indian cultures like the Nisqually since precontact. Indian hunting, fishing and gathering were conducted then—as they are now—not for sport, but for food and for a livelihood. This was well understood by the early colonists and later by the U.S. government. Thus, many of the treaties (e.g., Medicine Creek, 1854) negotiated between the federal government and Indian tribes in the nineteenth century contained provisions guaranteeing rights to hunt and fish. In the trea¬ty negotiated by Isaac Stevens, the tribe ceded to the U.S. some of the Nisqually vil¬lages and prairies, but Article Three reserved the tribe’s right to fish “at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations…in common with all citizens of the Territory.” (FL 12) But the growth of the European American population, and with it the proliferation of fenced lands, the destruction of natural habitat, and often the destruction of wildlife itself, drastically curtailed the Indians' ability to carry on these activities. Charles Wilkinson’s thesis declares that the “messages from Frank’s Landing” are “messages about ourselves, about the natural world, about societies past, about this society, and about societies to come.” (FL 6)
The American Indian Movement was formed and it was influenced due to the other civil rights groups speaking their mind about the oppression they found to be evident within the major of their culture. Martinez v. Santa Clara one of the most cited court cases focusing on the suppression of equal rights among all, Native American sovereignty, and the ability to govern over own domestic disputes. Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo a landmark case although no differences in stressors, cause Native American civil rights activists to speak out against the right of suffrage, ability for self-discrimination and Native American equal rights. The Native Americans have dealt with countless amounts of obstacles, however the government allows for federally funding
For several hundred years people have sought answers to the Indian problems, who are the Indians, and what rights do they have? These questions may seem simple, but the answers themselves present a difficult number of further questions and answers. State and Federal governments have tried to provide some order with a number of laws and policies, sometimes resulting in state and federal conflicts. The Federal Government's attempt to deal with Indian tribes can be easily understood by following the history of Federal Indian Policy. Indians all over the United States fought policies which threatened to destroy their familial bonds and traditions. The Passamaquoddy Indian Tribe of Maine, resisted no less than these other tribes, however, thereby also suffering a hostile anti-Indian environment from the Federal Government and their own State, Maine. But because the Passamaquoddy Tribe was located in such a remote area, they escaped many federal Indian policies.
Many people and groups opposed the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears. He will never forget the horrors he had seen in the march. To describe how bad the march and how he saw so many people was he said, “Murder is murder and somebody must answer, somebody must explain the streams of blood that flowed in the Indian country in. 1838. Somebody must explain the four-thousand silent graves that mark the trail of Cherokees to exile.
Throughout history the attacks on Native American sovereignty proved to be too much and eventually tribes had to submit. The problems Native American tribes faced when fighting for and dealing with sovereignty in the 18th century are identical to the problems they are facing today. These
They felt that this country was rightfully theirs, and wanted an equal opportunity to be able to live where they pleased. Also, they were constantly discriminated against. Many stores and establishments had signs that read “No Indians Allowed.” AIM would go to these places and protest openly, sometimes getting violent. Many acts of violence and murder also occurred on reservation lands against Native Americans, and the white men who committed the crimes would receive a light sentence in court, sometimes not even be punished at all.
By enforcing the Indian Removal Act, America was questioned as a democratic country. Was independence a top priority in America or was it for a select group? Americans thought of independence as for certain people and this included the white settlers. Not the Native Americans or the blacks. It also questions what America would pay for human expansion. The answer ended up being any cost except a cost that would have included the settlers. Native Americans, Blacks, and whoever else could pay the price for the expansion. Native Americans did by being forced from their lands. Blacks did by them being used for labor and put into slavery. The United States forced and tricked tribes to sell their lands and move west.
The story begins in Mississippi in the spring of 1902. The United Mine Workers of America were on strike demanding higher wages and shorter work days. Since the mine owners couldn’t shut down production legally, they welcomed the strike since they didn’t have to pay wages and could raise the prices and the demand for coal. Since neither side was going to give in, Roosevelt stepped in. He threatened to send troops to take over the mines. The two sides finally came to a settlement in October. After this event, Roosevelt accepted an invitation by Mississippi governor, Andrew H. Longino, to go on a hunting trip in Mississippi. The trip was in November, scheduled for ten days, and their guide was Holt Collier, a former slave. Though Roosevelt wanted to see a bear on the first day of the trip, he did not. It wasn’t until the next day, that he did see one. His dogs picked up the scent of a bear in the morning and he tracked it for hours, but to no avail. Finally, during the president’s lunch, Collier tracked a bear for the president. His dogs had the bear cornered and they were ...
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress in order to allow the growth of the United States to continue without the interference of the Native Americans. Jackson believed that the Native Americans were inferior to white settlers and wanted to force them west of the Mississippi. He believed that the United States would not expand past that boundary, so the Native Americans could govern themselves. Jackson evicted thousands of Native Americans from their homes in Georgia and the Carolinas and even disregarded the Supreme Court’s authority and initiated his plan of forcing the Natives’ on the trail of tears. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Indians, however Jackson ignored the ruling and continued with his plan. The result of the Indian Removal Act was that many tribes were tricked or forced off their lands, if they refused to go willingly, resulting in many deaths from skirmishes with soldiers as well as from starvation and disease. The Cherokee in particular were forced to undergo a forced march that became known as the Trail of
The removal of the Cherokee Indians from their lands in the southeast is the largest Indian relocation in American history (Sides 362). It was unjust for the Americans to seize Indian land in order to make room for more Americans and immigrants. The Indians had done nothing to deserve this type of brutal treatment. These Indians had no way of fighting back to the Americans, so it was both unfair and unjust. The Trail of Tears, or as Indians called it The Trail where the Wept, was a trail of sickness and despair (Ehle 385). No person should ever have to go through what the Cherokees and other tribes went through. Even though the Americans had some viable reasons to desire the Indian land, they had no right of forcibly removing the Indians out without all of their consent.
...er from the U.S. government and society. Even though their rights hadn’t been protected, their land taken forcibly away, and their culture disrespected, the American Indian Movement still managed to protest and fight for their deserved rights in very reasonable and non-extreme ways. Their land and property were wrongfully taken away, but they did not steal other property in vengeance. Violence was used against them, but they did not retaliate violently. They were pressured to give up their culture and religious beliefs and conform to those of another ethno-cultural community, but they did not force their own views and ideas onto others. The American Indian Movement was an organization whose actions can be justified as perfectly legitimate reactions to the United States’ democratic society that had promised to respect and protect their people and had failed to do so.
The American Indian Movement had both positive and negative effects on the community and liberty of the Indian tribes and people. Protests, and arguments became a way of unitement among tribes while also enforcing hope and strength to the oppressed Indians. Their will to fight became a new found hope and without that hope, the movement would not have succeed. The AIM's perseverance led to national knowledge of the issue which therefore led to governmental help thus creating a less oppressed and cruel nature for American Indians. Although the American Indian movement was not perfect it provided hope and helped to minimize the daily injustices American Indians were facing.
Paul William Bryant lived his childhood with no very much. Paul was born on September 11, 1913 in Moro Bottom in south central Arkansas. He was one out of eleven other children that his parents had. His parents were Monroe and Ida Mae Bryant. His father Monroe was a farmer and his mother Ida Mae was a stay at home mother and tended to the house. A few years later in Paul’s life they moved to a few miles south of Forge, Arkansas. (“100 years Of Bear”) There were about 3,600 people in the town they moved to.(“Paul W Bryant”) When Bryant got older his father got real ill so his mother and bear had to take over the farm for his father. (“Bear Bryant”) When Paul was just thirteen years old he was watching a varsity football practice. At six foot one he was a big thirteen year old and the coach saw the big kid watching them practice. “The coach of the team went up to Bryant and asked him if he had ever played football before. Paul replied, “ This is the first time I had ever seen the game played before.” The coach told him “ you see that boy down there? You just go down there and try and kill him.” Paul started to play and lets just say he did what the coach told him to do. When the poor safety caught the ball Bryant smashed the kid. Before the upcoming Friday Bryant had made it to the starting lineup. In his senior year of high school he led his team to the state championship.(“the story of Bear”) One night Bryant and some friends went to a traveling circus. There was a live bear there and the man with it was offering a dollar for every minute you would stay in the cage with the bear. Bear said he would get in the cage with the bear some people thing that the reason he got in the cage was to impress a girl. For whateve...
Not many know about Dragging Canoe and the battle he fought during the American Revolutionary War. The Native American’s role in the Revolutionary War was very important, but not well known. As a result, the Revolutionary War can come across as one-sided. Dragging Canoe fought for the Native American’s existence in the colonies. First, he was strongly opposed to Henderson’s Purchase or also called the Transylvania Purchase. Secondly, Dragging Canoe’s raid at “Battle of the Bluffs” became an issue for the colonists. And lastly, there was negotiating done between the British and Colonists would somehow effect Dragging Canoe, his warriors, and the future for the Native Americans.
Many people today know the story of the Indians that were native to this land, before “white men” came to live on this continent. Few people may know that white men pushed them to the west while many immigrants took over the east and moved westward. White men made “reservations” that were basically land that Indians were promised they could live on and run. What many Americans don’t know is what the Indians struggled though and continue to struggle through on the reservations.