The Nez Perce Indians used to live a total stretch of seventeen million acres in the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana. This area was known as their homeland. Nez Perce homeland today is now only 750,000 acres with about 3,500 tribal members mainly in Lapwai, Idaho. The Nez Perce name came from French Canadian fur traders in the 18th century, the funny thing about this is that Nez Perce means “pierced nose”, but nose piercing wasn’t something that was practiced by the tribe. Although the name Nez Perce was given to them they decided to call themselves something different, they called themselves Niimpíipuu meaning “The People”. One of the most commonly known Nez Perce Indians was Chief Joseph. Chief Joseph was most known as being …show more content…
The Battle of Bear Paw Mountain was the last and greatest fight between Native
Americans and the United States government. It was at this battle that Chief Joseph was forced to surrender to the Army in 1877. In 1907 Chief Joseph died, and many claim that, “Chief Joseph died from a broken heart after living on a reservation for two decades.” It is shown just in the information above all of the inequality Native Americans faced for the past two centuries. Almost everyone knows what has been done to those people, and none of it can be forgotten. Instead of focusing on the racial inequality that it issued towards Native American tribes, I wanted to focus more on what advantages members of the Nez Perce tribe have compared to those that are not members, and the controversy that comes from those advantages. Mainly the advantages they have towards hunting and fishing, this may seem like something small and pointless to focus on, but I see it as something different that not a lot of people think about. I mainly want to know the certain things that Nez Perce tribal members are entitled to but non-tribal members are not and what problems that may cause between the two
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White fishermen in the Pacific Ocean caught more than half the Columbia River salmon. So when the river’s salmon runs hit a twenty-year low in 1980, white fisherman and white governments naturally blamed the
Indians.” I see a whole lot of blaming in this quote pointed towards the ‘white people’.
The person that wrote this is even stating that white people are being racist and are blaming all of their mistakes on the Indian people, but isn’t this person doing the exact same thing? In a Nez Perce Fish and Wildlife article it includes eighty-one rules and regulations that are to be followed on the Nez Perce reservation, including what non- tribal members must follow while on the reservation as well. One of the rules listed in this article includes, “A person commits the infraction of unauthorized fishing, hunting, and trapping if being a nonmember of the Nez Perce Tribe, he fishes or hunts for a tribal member, assists a tribal member in fishing or hunting or uses any gear or fishing location identified as the gear or location of a Nez Perce tribal member.” This reminds me of the
Civil Rights and when there would be segregated bathrooms for blacks and whites,
Chief Joseph and Helen Hunt Jackson are two very important people who both share strong yet different perspectives toward the treachery of the U.S. Government along with the unfair treatment of Indians around the 1800’s. Chief Joseph was born in 1840 in the Wallowa valley of Oregon, and belonged to the Nez Percé tribe, which was made up of some 400 indians. The Government had made many valid promises among the tribes, just to come back and break these words with more conflict and war. All Chief Joseph was in search for was for the chaos among the whites and indians to be replaced with peace, brotherhood, and equality. Stated in the text, “We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men.” In other words, Chief Joseph believed that people
...er the Nez Perce were forced out of here in the eighteen seventies and the Army sold off their horses" (250). Least Heat Moon often tells how the Native American way of living was not harmful to the land and how their ways were quickly overtaken by the dominating white ways of today.
...higan, they are The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. The Little River Band is full and rich in culture. Some people don’t acknowledge the Ottawa tribe here in Manistee Michigan, or really even know who they are or how they feel. I feel as though that the Ottawa tribe has a huge positive impact on Michigan’s history. Thereby, I have written this essay to discuss and reveal the culture and the day-to-day of the Ottawa tribe with observations, interviews and research.
them. The details and significance of those actions only serve to promote arrogance in white
The Sioux band tougher led by Little Big Foot. They were heading to Pine RidgeReservation in South Dakota, when the army stopped them and held them at gun pointovernight. Big Foot’s group contained about 300 people two-thirds of them were women and children. While the soldiers numbered around 500 and were armed with automatic weapons. The next morning when the army began to disarm the Indians a shot rang out then the gun fire began leaving about 200 Indians dead in the snow. Thirty soldiers were also killed in the massacre. The soldiers that lost there lives were most likely killed by their own men in friendly fire. Wounded Knee is said to have been the last battle of the war but it was not so much a battle as it was a massacre. It was in fact the last exchange of fire between the army and the Sioux.
In the year 1774, there was an event that would set the then British colonies on a path to becoming its own nation. This event is called: “The Battle of Point Pleasant” also affectionately known as “Lord Dunmore’s War.” Lord Dunmore and his Virginia militiamen fought an allied Mingo and Shawnee tribe led by legendary Chiefs Cornstalk and Logan. The stage is set for a fierce and merciless conflict between these titans. Even though this brutal one day conflict caused hundreds of casualties and left dozens dead, it paved the way for the American Revolution.
The Nez Perce Indians are a tribe that originated in Pacific Northwest of the U.S. During the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the Indian tribe covered about 17 million acres. Those states were part of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Recordings of Leais and Clark reported that the suppose to be known as fierce warriors and were strategic in battle were actually a helpful tribe and peaceful also.
Perhaps inevitably, the Native Americans began rebelling. One of the most significant of these rebellions took place in 1675, ...
From the beginning of the 20th Century, there were nearly 250,000 Native Americans in the United States who accounted for approximately 0.3 percent of the population. This population was mostly residing in reservations where they executed a restricted extent of self-government. Native Americans have experienced numerous challenges related to land use and inconsistent public policies. Actually, during the 19th Century, Native Americans were dispossessed of a huge section of their land through forced removal westwards, through a series of treaties that were largely dishonored, and through military defeat by the United States in its expansion of control over the American West (Boxer par,1). Moreover, Native Americans have experienced
The Natchez were well-known for their strong central government and their highly evolved religious ceremonies. Moreover, the language of the Natchez does not seem to have any relation to that of any other tribe in the area. The tribe is said to have used the name, “Thelöel,” when referring to themselves, and it is believed that the French may have assigned the name “Natchez” to the tribe because one of the villages bore the name. Likewise, the French named the surrounding area Natchez, as well.
When you think of Native Americans, do you just think of what happened to them in the past, or do you think of how they live today and how they are viewed by the people around them? You probably do not think of how the Native Americans are viewed today. There are many Indian organizations out there that help the Native Americans improve their lifestyle and how they live. There has been an expansion in the Indian population since they have been put on land and not been threatened. The population has grown and the education has gone way up. More Indians have had schooling and will continue to learn as they get older. With the education increased and more Native Americans going on to college, their employment has also gone up. More Indians have jobs and own their own businesses. As their population gets larger and they get a chance to have more opportunities, the youth and following generations have choices to be a proud American or a proud Native American.
Sioux as told through John G. Neihardt, an Indian boy then a warrior, and Holy Man
Sandefur, G. (n.d.). American Indian reservations: The first underclass areas? Retrieved April 28, 2014, from http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc121f.pdf
Not all the Indians have reservations, but all reservations have Indians. Those reservations settled at the areas usually don’t communicate with outside world a lot in more than thirty of the states. Most of reservations are poor, but there still some of them are rich. Indian lands makes up 2.3 percent of the lands in the united States. Reservation life tells its own story. Many Indians and non-Indians think this story usually is the story of tragedy. Life on the rez is hard, violent, criminal, poor and short. By thinking about what they have lost and what they have survived, the conflicts between whites and Indians are more than Indians and Indians. This is one of the hardship in Rez life. Besides all these unfortunates, the Rez life is all right.
the story in the Phillip Whitten and David E. K. Hunter anthropology book of No