Cayuse War: Innocent Lives Of Native Americans

The Pequot war was a gruesome, bloody and horrifying war. Tensions were running high between the English and Pequot tribe in the year of 1637. This will lead to one of the bloodiest Native American massacre in American history. This video poses the vital question as to why we ignore this part of our history and mythologize an amazing relationship between the pioneers and the natives.

The Pequot War was the first brutal war on the North American continent, and the first war fought between the Native Americans and the English settlers. The whole war began, because the Englishmen, like always, became greedy and wanted more land and more profitable trade. The homeland of the Pequot tribe, was modern day Connecticut. The tribe had an estimated population of 2,200 members, and they based their everyday lives off of maize, hunting, and even fishing (Pequot, 2012). For a period of time, the English settlers and the Native American tribe lived peacefully with a fair-trading system and they helped each other, but that did not last long. One reason for the Englishmen coming to the North American continent, was to spread the faith of Christianity. Believing that God had given the English settlers the right to settle in the new-found land, they saw great opportunities to convert the “savages” to their Christian ways (Pequot, 2012). The English settlers began invading the Pequot’s territory, and almost completely pushed them off of their land. “There were disputes over property, livestock damaging Indian crops, hunting, the selling of alcohol to Indians, and dishonest traders” (1636- The Pequot War, n.d.). Not only did the Pequot’s have issues with the English settlers, they were always on bad terms with the Narragansett tribe as well. The tribe separated into two parts, the “pro-English and pro-Dutch” (Colonialwarsct.org). This event made the Indians very weak,

The Whitmans shouldn`t have expected the Cayuses to completely turn their backs on their beliefs that they have followed for so long. Another factor that led to the attack was, “When the Cayuses adopted Euro-American notions about private property and demanded payment for their land and resources, the missionaries were offended and refused.” (http://historylink.org/File/5192) The Whitman`s shouldn`t have been so upset that the Cayuses wanted payment for their resources. It was completely justified that if the missionaries were using the Cayuses resources then the missionaries should pay for them. One of the main factors in the Whitman Massacre was, “The Cayuse watched in alarm as more emigrants traveled through their country, using up scarce firewood, depleting grasses on land used to graze Indian horses and cattle, and killing game without permission.” (http://historylink.org/File/5192) The Missionaries and the emigrants are using up and wasting precious recourse that the Cayuse people needed and the Cayuse people weren`t getting anything in return for

The Iroquois nations, one of the oldest and most prestigious tribes in the history of all Native Americans. In this paper I will be showing why the Iroquois ended up siding with the English through the French and Indian, and Revolutionary wars through factors of colonization. I will also be showing some features of their culture, considering the iroquois are not well known in the western United States, and discussing the fall of the once great tribes. The main reason I 've chosen the Iroquois is because of my own prior knowledge of the Iroquois, and their relationship to lacrosse. I started playing lacrosse my freshman year of highschool. The very first thing I learned, before any stick skills or any basics of the game, was the history of it. Our coach insisted that we knew the history and the culture of the game, and that we respected it. I was intrigued by how interesting the game was. The game was made as a form of war. Lacrosse was sometimes even referred to as “Little brother of war”. It would be called this because injury, even death were common during a lacrosse game. When two tribes had a disagreement, but didn 't feel the need to have a legitimate war, the opposing tribes would send their best warriors to the battlefield and play a lacrosse game. Games would be played to a score of 5-7, but considering how long the fields could be, these games could take hours, days even, however long it took for one of the tribes to win,

This first hand account by John G Burnett, a member of the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, was written in 1890 as a letter to his children and paints a descriptive picture of the brutality of the Trail of Tears (“Two Accounts of the Trail of Tears”). The Trail of Tears was a tragic event, but was unavoidable due to the circumstances of the time. Many factors preceding the Trail of Tears have been proven to be catalyst for the tragic event. The Trail of Tears was when the United States Army forced the Cherokee indians from their home and made them move west of the Mississippi. There were people who were for the Trail of Tears and those who were not. Some factors which made the Trail of Tears inevitable were the growing population of America, the attitude of Americans toward natives, and the president of the time.

Manifest Destiny, caused the tribes to wipe out causing a cultural divide in the Native American

In 1492 native Americans discovered illegal immigrants invading their country. It has been a downhill fight for natives ever since. As more settlers arrived on the East Coast, an attitude became prevalent within the European communities that it was their right to expand cities across America in the name of progress and economic development. The manifest destiny was more of a feeling rather than a written statement which lasted from the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War. The idea of expansion grew, especially by those who wanted to capitalize on agriculture in the United States. Native Americans occupied land in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee. These lands became more valuable to the white settlers as the production of cotton became more popular in the South. As the idea of a manifest destiny grew, so did the idea to remove Natives, which led up to the “Trail of Tears” through the Indian Removal Act of 1830, a final solution to the Indian problem. The United States government removed the five civilized Tribes, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations between 1830 and 1838. The Native Americans being relocated suffered from inhuman conditions such as disease and starvation while traveling to their final destination, a designated area west of the Mississippi River. The events leading to this final march into the Indian Territories and the atrocities

Nunna dual Isunyi, the “Trail Where We Cried,” is what the Cherokees call one of the darkest chapters of American history (Pritzker). Despite the Native Americans adopting a great deal of white American customs and European-style economic practices, yet they were removed from their homelands and relocated to state reserves due to the ideology of manifest destiny and the insatiable American greed. The main victims were the Five “Civilized” Tribes: Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee.

Cayuse War- The Cayuse War was an armed conflict that took place in the Northwestern United States from November 29, 1847 (Whitman Massacre) to 1855 between the Cayuse people of the region and the United States Government and local American settlers. Started with the Whitman Massacre, in which Indians attacked the Whitman Mission because they believed that the whites had cursed them with disease. European diseases were especially dangerous to Native Americans because they had no natural immunity, never before being exposed to it. 1849-50- In the fall of 1849 the Cayuse handed over five members (Tiloukaikt, Tomahas. Klokamas, Isaiachalkis, and Kimasumpkin) of the tribe to be tried for the murder of the Whitmans, bringing an end to the

After the Trail of Tears, reuniting the split factions of the Eastern Cherokee became one of the most important aims of the tribe. John Ross and Sequyoah, two principal chiefs of the split Eastern tribe, came together and reunited. They then worked together to try and rebuild their society in Oklahoma Territory. When the Civil War broke out, many Cherokee sided with the Confederacy because they identified as southerners and some owned slaves. There was a small pro-Union faction, which furthur split the community, so most of the post-Trail or Tears goals could be summed up as trying to rebuild tribal

On november 29 1847 the cayuse indians attacked the whitman mission close to walla walla in what is known as the whitman massacre. Dr.marcus whitman

The Snake war was arguably one of the most devastating Native American wars in the west, moreover Native Americans were trespassing into settlers land and settlers trespassing into Native American land caused this conflict. And in it multiple states were involved, multiple tribes and a multitude of people!

A massacre is “an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.” “The Cayuse are a Native American tribe in the state of Oregon in the United States. The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation and government… with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the... Reservation… The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. Originally located in… northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, they lived adjacent to territory occupied by the Nez Perce and had… associations with them… The Cayuse ceded most of their traditional territory to the United States in 1855 by treaty and… formed a confederated tribe.” The massacre was on the date November 29, 1847, the murder of Oregon missionaries Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa,

Historical trauma, as Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart expressed, is being carried on the genes of Native people without being notice, is something heavy that cause pain and unconformity that it is slowly killing them. As the article refer that historical trauma is “the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding, over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma experiences.” Meaning that the things that happen in the past are still hurting people now, and it needs a great attention and cultural focus. It is really important to show a true respect to Native American culture, so it will be able to accurately help Native Americans from the roots of the problem. A lot of people will argue that what happen to the Native American community happened long time ago, but according to this article, Healing the American Indian Soul Wound, actually is something that kept on happening not so long ago, for example, “it was only in 1994 that native peoples were allowed to practice some forms of religion without fear of reprisal by state and federal government policies” (p. 345). It is surprising that this was still happening in 1994, which is so recent, and it shows a lot of immaturity from the government on the topic of respecting others as human beings. I actually argue with people that cultural genocide over Native Americans is something that I will not doubt is still happening now. I have a strong belief that

b. causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;<br>c. deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;<br>d. imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;<br>e. forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.<br>(Destexhe).<br><br>In this paper, I will argue that the act of genocide as here defined, has been committed by the United States of America, upon the tribes and cultures of Native Americans, through mass indoctrination of its youths. Primary support will be drawn from Jorge Noriega's work, "American Indian Education in the United States." The paper will then culminate with my personal views on the subject,