Black Hawk’s Surrender Speech of 1832 was a very important document in that time period. This document explains the process of Black Hawk’s surrender to the White people which ended a long war. The Surrender Speech reveals that times were hard for the Indians. Nothing ever came easy for Chief Black Hawk and his people. He describes how unfairly they were treated by the White people. At the time that he prepared this speech, a major war was going on, and yet he was leader of all of the Indians fighting in the war. Black Hawk has always been described as a very selfless man. But, if he was such an amazing Chief, then why would he surrender? Throughout the speech, Chief Black Hawk informs that even though he did surrender, it was a war well fought by incorporating ethos, bold contrast and imagery.
Historical Background and Purpose The Black Hawk war lasted from April to August in 1832 and was between the United States and Native Americans (“Black Hawk War”). The Treaty of St Louis of 1804 was a treaty that described how Black Hawk and his people moved across the Mississippi River to reclaim land that was lost in 1804 (“Black Hawk War”). Black Hawk and his people were not okay with this. So then his people made a merged together and went in to reclaim the land that was once theirs. At the time, white settlers were living there and it began to startle
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He believed that the land that the Whites settled on, was once the the Indians. So Black Hawk and his people stood up against the Whites, to gain the land back that belonged to them. Black Hawk made it very clear in this speech that he was not going to let the Whites walk over his people, and him not do anything about it.The audience has learned that Black Hawk was not the type of Chief to give up easily, and was not going to go down without a fight no matter the cost. He cared for his people, even as if it may not have seemed like
In the speech "Black Hawk's surrender speech, 1832", it is explained how Black Hawk fought to defend his people. Black Hawk was captured and made prisoner; the white men Black Hawk was captured by used guns instead of Indian fighting. The white men were in advantage by using guns against them. Black Hawk explains his situation by using rhetorical devices such as atmosphere, analogy, and antecedent.
In the late 1800’s the Americans viciously forced many Native Americans off their lands all because the federal government wanted the U.S. to expand and obtain Manifest Destiny. The main Native American and tribe that stood against the federal government was Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux and entire Lakota nation. He led a large amount of Sioux warriors in many battles against the American government that were fought over the rights and lands of the Lakota nation. He was against the American government and the forceful ways that they took over Indian lands, and therefore he used his strong, spiritual leadership abilities to battle against the American government as well as the U.S army. The author of the biography Sitting Bull and the
Black Hawk was an Indian warrior who fought hard and long to keep his nation's territory free of white men. When the white men realized that Black Hawk would be a problem when stealing their land, they decided to imprison him. While in prison, Black Hawk wrote his famous Surrender Speech, using ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to those who heard or read it and convince them that the white men were dangerous.
“The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.”John C. Calhoun had said this.The meaning behind this quote is that if you give up the life,surrender,than there is no such thing as inferiority to sink down.This quote shows how even though they had lost the Civil War or any battles before that it does not matter.So John C.Calhoun was an important American Figure because
In 1874, Custer led an army expedition to the Black Hills of present-day South Dakota, a sacred property of the Lakota-Sioux Nation, which was recognized under the Sioux Treaty of 1868. There, Custer and his men found a great amount of gold, and when President Grant and the US administration offered to buy the area, the Lakota-Sioux nation refused to sell due to its holiness in their culture. Two years later, the
In splitting far from this commonplace view, Winik draws from his endless experience as a ranking staff part with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and utilizations his firsthand learning to clarify why such a variety of twentieth century common wars took after a cycle of perpetual carnage. On account of the United States, the creator found a shocking soul of compromise that showed up promptly after Appomattox. Despite the fact that he recognizes that astringent, regularly brutal political battles kept amid Reconstruction–particularly over the status of liberated blacks–Winik trusts that Abraham Lincoln's request for empathy and absolution in his second inaugural address, Ulysses S. Concede's and William T. Sherman's liberal surrender terms, and Robert E. Lee's refusal to utilize guerilla fighting made a climate that eventually prompted to an enduring peace.
The war really started when four Dakota Warriors attacked and killed five white settlers; after the attack, Little Crow decided to declare war on the U.S by attacking the Lower Agency and killing settlers including women and children. As a result,
Document C Chief Luther Standing Bear, My People, the Sioux Source: Chief Luther Standing Bear, My People, the Sioux (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929). “It did not occur to me at the time that I was going away to learn the ways of the white man. My idea was that I was leaving the reservation and going to stay away long enough to do some brave deed, and then come home again alive. If I could just do that, then I knew my father would be so proud of me.” 1. What does this statement infer about what the Native Americans felt was occurring?
How the argument against the war was used in conjunction with the belief of “Manifest Destiny”, and how that argument is used as a racial motivation against acquiring the
President Harrison’s intended message in his “Report on Wounded Knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage” is to ensure the people that the massacre was a self-defense act by the soldiers. He said that the natives were “naturally warlike and turbulent” which puts the blame on the massacre on the Natives. Modern American’s can learn a lot from the Wounded Knee Massacre. To Americans, the massacre represents the end of the Indian resistance. Although this massacre is usually not mentioned in history classes today is it defiantly something that should be remembered. American soldiers were violent towards the Indians. While men were trying to flee the American soldiers would shoot them in the back and let their bodies there to freeze.
The whites called for British Troops to evacuate me. In the night I slipped across the river to never return to Illinois. I would not give up, I banded together 1500 followers. In April of 1832 we waged war to take back our home. We followed the river rock course for 50 miles. The war lasted 15 weeks. Two Thirds of my followers were dead.. The war was named the Black Hawk War. I had escaped but then captured six weeks later. I met with President Andrew Jackson and he sent me to Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Little did I know I would be used for entertainment soon. I was taken to tour large cities and crowds of people came to see “Chief Black Hawk and his Warriors.” In the Sauk there were no chiefs only leaders, but there was the american public’s lack of understanding. I returned to Rock Island in 1833. My arch enemy was there, Keokuck. I was released under his custody. By then I was tired, broken and very old. The war was a disaster, and I brought shame to myself. The Americans saw me as famous and admirable but my people saw me a cowardice and disgraced. The next five years I lived along the Iowa River with my wife and children. Today is October 2,
When they found gold it was just a matter of time before things on the Sioux land would become heated. Miners made their way to the Black Hills, moving further and further into the Sioux’s hunting grounds. Ulysses S. Grant who was president during this time tried to honor the Treaty of Fort Laramie (PBS n.d.) but the miners demanded government protection from the Native Americans (Clark n.d.). When Grant gave into the pressure the federal government issued an order requiring all Indians to move onto reservations by January 31, 1876, otherwise they would be considered hostile (PBS n.d.).
The story I have chosen to write my literary analysis on is Battle Royale", a short story by Ralph Ellison, written in 1952. This short story is the opening of a larger novel written by Ellison it is a story about a young black man, who has recently graduated high school. During the course of this story the boy’s grandfather dies and leaves the young man with some last words that he did not initially understand but close to the end of the story the words meaning become clearer to him. He lives in the south and is invited to give a speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citizens. Then the young man is made to take place in a battle royale with nine other young black men. Where they are treated very poorly and forced to endure terrible hardships. After taking part in the battle the young man gives a speech in front of a predominantly white crowd where he slips and says something that disturbs the crowd, the young man quickly corrects himself and then is praised by the people as a good black young man. The argument that I will be trying to address here is did the young man make the correct decision by accepting the white peoples praise and not speaking out against the injustice he had just been forced to endure. The reaction of the main character in this story depicts how not speaking up against injustice or racism is sometimes the best course of action.
The early 1800s were dark times for the United States. Though free of its rule, the newly-formed nation now had to face Britain once again in the War of 1812. Settlers were moving into the Great Plains and to the West, forcing Native American tribes to relocate. Rising tensions between the U.S. and the native tribes, and conflicts among the tribes themselves, made the perfect conditions for another war. In 1813, tensions finally snapped when a faction of the Creek Indians known as the Red Sticks started a civil war against those Creeks who supported the National Council, a war that eventually grew to involve militias from several U.S. states and other Native American tribes. Although the exact cause of the war is uncertain, what the war was, some major battles of the war, and how it relates back to To Kill a Mockingbird are known.
Throughout the seventeen minutes of the speech, both blacks and whites of all generations were influenced by one man’s words. This purpose of the speech is one of the most vital in analyzing it as a whole because the informative and influential aspects are what directly spoke to the audience.