Ceos Influence On Indian Culture

Many of the Florida Indians by the time of the British arrival (1763) were trading for decades with the Spanish and its colonies to the immediate south. The Creek Nation was a loose confederation of disparate Southeastern tribes sharing a common language and matrilineal line. Many of the Creeks who did not share their nation’s policy of trade with the British colonies migrated to new lands in Florida. But despite the geopolitical separation into Spanish territory, many still identified themselves as Creek when the British took over Florida. Creeks negotiated treaties with the French, British, Spanish, and having their multi-ethnic population in their midst, including black Indians who spoke European languages and served as interpreters. There were yet no Seminoles in Florida, just their antecedents that at the time were recognized as Tallasees, Mikasukis, Tohopekaligas, among others, who lived throughout the peninsula. This included other tribes who were later then identified as separate tribes and eventually grouped as Creeks: the Apalachicolas, Cauetas, Yamasees, and Talapuses. While some Oconees in Florida identified themselves as “Simallone” (as a corruption of Seminole – missing “r” in Hitchiti tongue was substituted for an “l”), but the British and subsequently Spain and the United States would mistake all East Florida Indians as Seminole Creeks. The Spanish were still using the term “cimarron” in a very general sense.

The Lakota, an Indian group of the Great Plains, established their community in the Black Hills in the late eighteenth century (9). This group is an example of an Indian community that got severely oppressed through imperialistic American actions and policy, as the Americans failed to recognize the Lakota’s sovereignty and ownership of the Black Hills. Jeffrey Ostler, author of The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, shows that the Lakota exemplified the trends and subsequent challenges that Indians faced in America. These challenges included the plurality of groups, a shared colonial experience, dynamic change, external structural forces, and historical agency.

The long history between Native American and Europeans are a strained and bloody one. For the time of Columbus’s subsequent visits to the new world, native culture has

Throughout the course of history there have been numerous accounts regarding Native American and European interaction. From first contact to Indian removal, the interaction was somewhat of a roller coaster ride, leading from times of peace to mini wars and rebellions staged by the Native American tribes. The first part of this essay will briefly discuss the pre-Columbian Indian civilizations in North America and provide simple awareness of their cultures, while the second part of this essay will explore all major Native American contact leading up to, and through, the American Revolution while emphasizing the impact of Spanish, French, and English explorers and colonies on Native American culture and vice versa. The third, and final, part of this essay will explore Native American interaction after the American Revolution with emphasis on westward expansion and the Jacksonian Era leading into Indian removal. Furthermore, this essay will attempt to provide insight into aspects of Native American/European interaction that are often ignored such as: gender relations between European men and Native American women, slavery and captivity of native peoples, trade between Native Americans and European colonists, and the effects of religion on Native American tribes.

In this paper I will discuss the history of the Cherokee Indians in the United States. First by describing the tribes pre-Columbian history to include the settlement dates and known cultural details. Then a brief description of the cultural and religious beliefs of the tribe will be given, as well as the tribe’s history after contact with settlers. Finally discussing John Ross, who he was and how he affected the Cherokee Indians.

The relationship between the English and the Native Americans in 1600 to 1700 is one of the most fluctuating and the most profound relationships in American history. On the one side of the picture, the harmony between Wampanoag and Puritans even inspires them to celebrate “first Thanksgiving”; while, by contrast, the conflicts between the Pequots and the English urge them to antagonize each other, and even wage a war. In addition, the mystery of why the European settlers, including English, become the dominant power in American world, instead of the indigenous people, or Indians, can be solved from the examination of the relationship. In a variety of ways, the relationship drastically alters how people think about and relate to the aborigines. Politically, the relationship changes to establish the supremacy of the English; the English intends to obtain the land and rules over it. Socially, the relationship changes to present the majority of the English settlers; the dominating population is mostly the English settlers. Economically, the relationship changes to obtain the benefit of the English settlers; they gain profit from the massive resource in America. Therefore, the relationship does, in fact, change to foreshadow the discordance of the two groups of people.

Initially the Cherokee Nation stretched “from stretch from North Carolina and Georgia to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas”. Little did the Cherokee’s know much of their land would not last forever. After the Revolutionary War their land begun to decrease more and

The southeastern fringe of the United States was persistently turbulent amid the mid nineteenth century. There was tension brewing along the border of Florida and Georgia, which was brought on by the gathering of various opponents. Rebellious men from other states such as Georgia entered Florida with expectations of outright taking the Seminole stallions and cows, not caring and having little to no regret if an Indian was killed while trying to defend his property. The Seminole warriors, looking for requital, led attacks of retaliation against honest pilgrims in Georgia. Privateers and British go getters meandered the range, actuating the Indians against the Americans, whose eager for land expansionists pined for the domain south of the Georgia outskirt. Authorities of the disintegrating Spanish Empire, whose banner flew over the state, were feeble to control occasions or stop the viciousness.

One argument from the readings in the New York TImes discusses how the Florida State Seminoles and the Seminole tribe work together in harmony. This article provides a valid argument against changing the Native American name because there is mutual respect between

Just like this century actually runs longer thematically than just 1800 to 1900, the story of the Indians extends backward before the first shots of the Civil War were fired and stretches forward past Reconstruction. Throughout this elongated era, different tribes had different experiences. Some, like the nations of the Iroquois, started their travails with warfare of white Americans as far back as choosing between the French and British during the French and Indian War. Others, like the Seminole, had fought many independent wars against America (or Spain or Britain) in their homelands long before they faced the Civil War. Still others, like the Cherokee, had attempted to assimilate into white culture, were forced off their lands, thought they were “safe” on guaranteed reservation lands, and then were forced again to participate when the Civil War bled westward into Indian Territory. The concepts of racism and “whiteness” that flowed like a river through themes of religion, progress, immigration, territory, slavery, and Reconstruction during the “long nineteenth century” also affected Native Americans; the “war of a thousand deserts” fought by the native tribes of the Southwest was both a unique experience and a shared experience as almost every tribe fought their own wars against whites and sometimes against other tribes

Who is a Seminole and who decides? Today, Abraham may not qualify to be a citizen of his own nation, one he fought so hard to create. The modern practice is for Indian nations to have Constitutions to address citizenship. The Seminole Nation may have had its nationhood status helped from the promises in Jesup’s Capitulation, and despite Creek and federal pressures that considered Seminoles part of the greater Creek nation. Abraham fought and negotiated valiantly to see recognition of such autonomy. But African American membership within the nation remained vague for generations, with the many past and present attempts to clarify membership and descendancy throughout the years by way of treaties, the Dawes Rolls, blood quantum, and especially

In 1836, the United States and the state of Georgia forced the Cherokee Indian tribe to leave their home in Georgia and move on to the West. Long story short, the tribe did not want to move, and they also trusted that they had the legal right to stay. In the early 1830’s this disagreement brought two movements at law in the Supreme Court

Among the Indian nations whose ancient seats were within the limits of our republic, the Iroquois have long continued to occupy the most conspicuous position. The Iroquois flourished in independence, and capable of self protection, long after the new England and Virginia races had surrendered their

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.

Creek Indians better known as the Seminoles had a rich and vibrant nation prior to Europeans. The Seminole Indians clothing did not cover much of their body. The men wore a breechcloth that is worn between the legs with a belt that covers the front and back. The Seminole men and women made “moccasin” shoes made of deerskin. Seminoles used bows, and arrows during battle. They were also known for their wood carvings, bright clothing and bead work (Native American Facts). The Spanish were the first Europeans the Seminoles encountered in the 1700’s by voyages and shipwrecks. What affected my decision to choose the Florida Seminoles is their mentality to never give up. There were several wars in the 1800’s with Europeans. In the end they lost, but