American Indians Land History

Cherokee Indians have been around for many years, but when the topic of Native Americans is discussed it is only about the struggles and hardships they went through but never their actual culture of how and where they originated or how they came to be. There are many interesting things to learn about Cherokee Indians such as their heritage, religion, language, and their traditional songs, dances, and food.

The book “How the Indians Lost their Lands” by Stuart Banner is about how he claims everything really went down for the Native Americans of being kicked out from their birth home from the so called “Americans”. Stuart Banner, “who is a law professor at the University of Los Angeles school of law, seemed to have never denied any knowledge regarding the transfer land trade of the United States from Native American to non-natives in the early 17th century to the end of the 19th century” (“Author Introduction: HTILTL”). Instead in “How the Indians Lost Their Land”, he describes and admits the truth of the way it really happened in the early 17th century. In this book Banner mostly criticized about how the Native Americans lived on their private property, due to their birth right, but were tricked into selling their land because of the beliefs

Totem poles are ceremonial statues that were carved by many of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest. The animals and figures on the totem poles represent the history of the family that lived in that house. The figures on the totems had specific meaning, and told of the family's heritage, power, and place in the

Their greatest resources were the trees around them. Most of their tools were made from wood. They also used a lot of bark from the trees to make things. Women made Miwoks, or birch bark containers, strapped to their waist to gather berries. They used a similar container to collect maple syrup. They made canoes out of bark as well. Spears were made out of wood to catch fish. For hunting, they used bow and arrows made from trees. They made stone tomahawks. Snowshoes were another Native American invention. The trees provided them with many tools. -Chevy

Back when the United States wasn’t so immense and powerful, its people and their leaders wanted to expand. The people thought that the entire country should be theirs, and anyone who stood in their way, including the Native Americans, would pay for it. Manifest destiny was the “motto” for the country in this time. The first railroad that could cross the entire country was built. This encouraged many to move out west. While this was good for the Americans, it might not have been so good for the Native Americans. Native American land and culture was impacted by western expansion of the United States because of the Transcontinental Railroad, and the United States army, or militias, and government.

The Iroquois also used their surroundings to make to make and to provide food. In Document #2 it says that the Iroquois used bark from the local elm trees to make a bark tray. The bark

The American territory was sprawling across the Mississippi River and into new Native American territory. The Great Plains and far West were occupied by both Indians and Hispanics whose custom and way of live were distinct in language religion and kinship and governance. The white settlers and hunters were a threat to the resources in which they used for survival.

Under the custom of Native American tribes that lived in what would become Vermont, land was used by the community, and not owned by individuals or families. They believed that land was a living being, and that people should live in harmony with the land, not dominate it. In contrast, the European settlers thought that people have a moral right to rule over the land. (Hands on the Land, page 70) Samuel D. Champlain in 1609 was the first explorer to sail through the lake between Vermont and New York, that he would be named after. He represented the French, who were the first to want to claim the land.

Before 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, there were many tribes living in North America. Two equally similar and different ones were the Iroquois tribe and the Cherokee tribe. On one hand, they are similar because of their geographies and their economies. On the other hand, they are different because of their cultures and religious beliefs.

Hi Dr. Prinz and Classmates, Here are my responses to your four Discussion Questions. Discussion Question 1: What is historical bias? Native Americans were the original inhabitants of America, yet much of their heritage and culture is misunderstood.   As educators how can we avoid the historical bias in teaching about American Indian history?

The moment when Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas was the beginning of the interactions between American Indians and European colonists. These very first interactions were mostly positive due to the the generosity of the Indians but turned violent when the Europeans began to mistreat, kidnap, enslave, and kill the American Indians. Actions taken by the American Indians and European Colonists, especially actions of violence, during the 1600s caused the relationship between the two parties to be negative and conflicting in New England and Chesapeake.

I attended Community Conversations: Ten Thing You Should Know About American Indian History at Texas A&M University. This event discussed important/unique facts about American Indians, how they have evolved over the centuries and their traditions. American Indians are very diverse; they are composed of distinct tribes and different ethnic groups that had over 296 languages. This community lecture also discussed many things that we as Americans think are true about them that are actually false.

Cherokee Indians was a powerful detached tribe of the inroquoian family they were under formerly holding the whole mountain region. ln the southwest Virginia in the western North Carolina, and South Carolina, north Georgia, East Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and they caiming even to the Ohio river.the Cherokee nation from its earliest appearance in historical records was in 1540. The Cherokee Indians tribe has existed for over 200 years that full Blood bilingual leaders occuply the top positions of the Cherokee nation. The Cherokee were know for speaking the language call iroqouian and for living in southeastern United States principally Georgia , Tennessee , North Carolina and South Carolina.

The Southeastern Native American’s landscape/geography differs from place to place in the region. The climate of Southeast United States was important to the culture because it affected on how they lived and dressed(showed by the Native Americans dressed in the village bottom left hand corner of the project). The rain (the project showed this by putting in thunder clouds raining in the sky )is the only winter precipitation that the southeastern states will have in most areas. That rain is important to the Southeast Native Americans because the Native Americans would build villages instead of being nomads, so one of their ways of getting food would be farming. That rain is used for watering crops. Thunderstorms ( showed the thunderstorms

To be a Native American, one is not just born into the ethnicity, but it is the sacredness of the culture, language, religion, and land that makes a person a true Native American, and without these things, there are no Indigenous people. Developing a culture is human nature, and for Native Americans, their culture revolves around the land, and to take that away is to take away who they are. The land may not physically be a part of Native Americans, but without their sacred land, there is a missing part of them. The building of telescopes on Mt. Graham is one example of how the sacred Native land is being taken over. Just like how a wheel is a part of a chariot, the sacred land is part of a Native American, and without it, Native Americans are not whole. Their culture is seen as inferior to white culture because of the Racial Contract, and is why their land is treated with disrespect. Native Americans’ sacred lands needs to be treated with respect and protected because without it, they are no longer Native Americans, they are a group of people without a culture to be a part of.