The reason that I chose this particular site is due to the fact that it has such a colossal amount of information. Most of the information, which is located on the left side of the page in the Table of Contents, is about what we learned regarding the Indians and how they impacted settlement in the New England area. The information on this site relates to numerous topics we are currently studying, such as, King Philip’s War, the Indians of New England, the Iroquois League, and the relationships between the various Indian tribes and the Europeans who came to settle in America. Additionally, this site expands on the information that we learned while reading about the Indians who occupied New England. Last but not least, this website goes beyond the time frame of the seventeenth century to include information all the way up to present day information about Indian tribes in America. I found this to be really fascinating, because I could see what has become of the Indian tribes that I have read about plus many more tribes.
Three things that I found interesting on this site were descriptions of Philip from King Philip’s War, the reason behind the development and implementation of the Iroquois League, and the account of Pocahontas. I found the description of Philip from King Philip’s War to be thought-provoking, because while reading about it in our textbook I made the assumption that Philip was just looking for a reason to start a battle with the settlers, but after reading the article on this site that covers King Philip’s War I saw his disposition in a different light. This site revealed that Philip saw war as distasteful and that after the news of bloodshed and the oncoming war that was to come he began to cry. This was a very sur...
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... what I read, because I had already made my own assumptions about Indians. Examples of this are seen when I thought it really strange that the Caughnawagas adopted Colonel Smith instead of killing him or when I assumed that Philip, along with all Indian tribes, were very hostile and continually looking for a reason to fight. After reading the articles that were presented on this site I learned that my assumptions were wrong. Indians were not always looking for a fight and did not always kill “white men.” They were people too, who felt the impact of war and they also felt compassion for others. Other examples included, that six tribes banded together to form Iroquois League and that an Indian woman would adopt the ways of a “white man” and even take his last name. Overall, I think that this site showed me that I was very judgmental about Indians and their culture.
Daniel Ritcher examines the reorganization of Iroquois society following the colonization of America in his piece The Ordeal Of The Long House. Set in the period preceding 1720, his book illustrates how European settlers caused the Iroquois to change their culture and political structure to suit the new political climate. Using a wide array of documentation Ritcher attempts to highlight the deft diplomatic tactics used by Iroquois communities to maintain relative autonomy in colonial America. Ritcher’s account illustrates the similarity in political structure and cultural heritage among the five Iroquois tribes that enabled them to form a united front against the Europeans. Elements of social structure and ceremonial procedures that traversed tribal affiliations included practices such as gift taking and speech giving. These were valued by the Native Americans but dismissed by the Europeans. Further, religious beliefs such as those about the reincarnation of dead relatives in captives of war led to a common need for war prisoners. Ritcher shows how political dealings and inter-community relations in derived their basis from culture. As such, he illustrates the impact of natives’ politics on American history. The author also highlights how Iroquois culture continues to manifest in many facets of modern society. This is quite insightful, considering the almost unanimous disregard for natives’
Early American History is not necessarily in my comfort zone in regards to the amount of knowledge I can share off the top of my head. Facing East was the best book for me to start with, I feel, because it affected my ideas about the ways in which Historians have written about conflict between Native Americans and European settlers. The only perspective I have ever read has been a westward-facing perspective. I was almost ashamed at how surprised I was that I had not considered the fact that conflict and distrust existed in North America long before non-natives arrived, rather than what I believe is often portrayed as this harmonious network of Native American tribes who slowly succumbed to encroachment by settlers. The rivalries and wars that exi...
Utley, R., Wilcomb, W. The American Heritage History of The Indian Wars. New York: American Heritage.
The Cherokee are perhaps one of the most interesting of Native American Groups. Their life and culture are closely intertwined with early American settlers and the history of our own nation’s struggle for freedom. In the interest of promoting tolerance and peace, and with regard to the United States government’s handling of Native affairs, their story is one that is painful, stoic, and must not be forgotten.
King Philip’s War (1675-76) is an event that has been largely ignored by the American public and popular historians. However, the almost two-year conflict between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England stands as perhaps the most devastating war in this country’s history. One in ten soldiers on both sides were wounded or killed. At its height, hostilities threatened to push the recently arrived English colonists back to the coast. And, it took years for towns and urban centers to recover from the carnage and property damage.
Theme: Encounter and exchange between the Cherokee Nation and European-American Settlers, the U.S. government, and the U.S. courts.
The history of the relationship between Indigenous Peoples of the North America and European settlers represents a doubtlessly tragic succession of events, which resulted in a drastic decline in Indigenous population leading to the complete annihilation of some Native groups, and bringing others to the brink of extinction. This disastrous development left the Indigenous community devastated, shaking their society to its very pillars. From the 1492 Incident and up to the 19th century the European invasion to the North America heavily impacted the social development of the Indigenous civilization: apart from contributing to their physical extermination by waging incessant war on the Indian tribes, Anglo-Americans irreversibly changed the Native lifestyle discrediting their entire set of moral guidelines. Using the most disreputable inventions of the European diplomacy, the colonizers and later the United States’ government not only turned separate Indigenous tribes against each other but have also sown discord among the members of the same tribe. One of the most vivid examples of the Anglo-American detrimental influence on the Native groups is the history of the Cherokee Nation and the U.S. Indian Removal Policy. The Cherokee removal from Georgia (along with many other Indian nations) was definitely an on-going conflict that did not start at any moment in time, but developed in layers of history between the Native Americans, settlers of various cultures, and the early U.S. government. This rich and intricate history does not allow for easy and quick judgments as to who was responsible for the near demise of the Cherokee Nation. In 1838, eight thousand Cherokees perished on a forced march out of Georgia, which came to be called the T...
During the Great Depression, while the competitors were cutting costs and reusing outdated designs, Kress was expanding and building more elaborate stores than their previous ones. The architecture was referred to as an “emporium” evoking an elegant atmosphere more suited to a fine cloth or furniture store in New York rather than the five & dime stores dotting small town America. Many wonder what the driving force was behind these design decisions, especially during a national time of economic recession. Perhaps simply to outpace the competition, but perhaps more importantly Samuel Kress was an avid art collector and a proponent of public art enhancing a community. In this way the Kress legacy of the brand became more than a retail business, it became a symbol of small town civic pride.
As the subjugation of the American Indian population began, the driving need to collect information emerged as did the quandaries that people who study this field struggle with today. To understand why problems transpire in this field of study, it is imperative that scholars know why should this field be studied. This reason is as simple or as complex as anyone wishes to make it. The program is to “present information and interpretations that otherwise would be overlooked.” The challenge that emerges from this rather simplistic meaning spans time and the globe in its debates and encompasses scholars of Native American and non- Indian ancestry. The purpose of this paper is not to tell about the history of why Native American Studies ought to be taught but to describe problems and solutions that it faces in its execution in the discipline both in the academic and in fieldwork.
Even the easiest and trivial problems do have several solutions, dictated by different approaches, driving forces, and starting points. So, what can one tell about solution of the complex issues that require a lot of time, effort and thought to be solved? There are always a multitude of positions, opinions and options to solve the complex problem, so one cannot even tell which of these options is the only true and right. Thus, it is hard to judge whether specific solutions for the problem of slavery in North America of the 18th-19th century would be efficient or not. So, comparing Lucy Stanton’s and Nat Tuner’s positions and approaches to achieve the freedom for African-Americans it seems almost impossible to claim that only one of the points is valid.
Although everyone should be involved in finding out more about this subject, historians and the ancestors of Indians who have been neglected have a tendency to be the more interested than others. Historians, like Edward Sherrif Curtis, the writer of "The North American Indian", are aroused by the mysterious past of the Indians. Their curiosity is what drives them to devote their entire lives to find out more about this historic past time. Curtis, for example, devoted more than thirty years of his life, following, living with, and taking more than forty thousand pictures of eighty different Indian tribes (Curtis, par.1). Another well-known seekers of Indian information are the Indians themselves. Their drive comes from keeping their heritage alive and giving justice to their ancestors who were mistreated by the senselessness of the white man. One of their goals is to share the wealth of information that has been passed down from their elders, to help us better understand their way of life.
Our belief states are determined by the external factors, for example, perceived complexity and priming ethics is an interesting subject and everyone lives by their thoughts and their ways. Everyone lives by a different code. The difference between morality and ethics is that morality is about primary making the right choices and ethics is proper reasoning. In the essay “The ethics of belief” by W. K. Clifford, he argues that if anything on insufficient evidence, then it’s unethical. In this essay I will remain undecided with what Clifford is trying to say. I agree and disagree with some of his viewpoints. Some I do have to say are unethical and some are reasonable. What Clifford is trying to portray is interesting. Especially since he comes from a religious background. And reading about his new discovery, is quite interesting.
Josephy, Alvin M. The Indian Heritage of America. New York, 1968. Pp. 53, 116. _________. Through Indian Eyes. New York, 1995, Pp. 330-332, 383.
Hesiod’s Theogony and the Babylonian Enuma Elish are both myths that begin as creation myths, explaining how the universe and, later on, humans came to be. These types of myths exist in every culture and, while the account of creation in Hesiod’s Theogony and the Enuma Elish share many similarities, the two myths differ in many ways as well. Both myths begin creation from where the universe is a formless state, from which the primordial gods emerge. The idea of the earth and sky beginning as one and then being separated is also expressed in both myths.
By the seventeenth century, the subsistence base of the Cherokee had been narrowed to the point where they resembled European peasants more than either their grandparents or their English neighbors. Though they were a proud people, no less a personage than Henry Clay recognized that the Cherokee were banished from their native homes, their right of self-government destroyed, and their forced removal west of the Mississippi River was likely to be only a temporary solution to the “problem” that they