Chief Joseph's Speech Persuasive Techniques

In Jackson’s mind, he expected the Indians to thrive as they did in their current home, except there would be no white men. Three chiefs, each one from the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawa tribes, came forward to the White House and told about their suffering. They said they were promised land as fertile as Illinois, but received land that a snake couldn’t live on. They could not live in the prairie when they were from the woods. Thousands of Indian people suffered because Jackson heard what they said

Chief Joseph was the leader of the Nez Percé, a Native American tribe that occupied the Wallowa Valley. In 1877 the United States ordered the Nez Percé to move to a reservation in Idaho. Chief Joseph resisted all efforts to force his tribe to the reservation, and began to lead his people towards Canada. General Oliver O. Howard, threatened the tribe with a cavalry attack. Over the time frame of four months, Chief Joseph and his group marched toward Canada, bearing the freezing temperatures. The journey consisted of several victories against the U.S. Force. However, it took a toll on the tribe. Chief Joseph and his people were completely exhausted. Having seen the great loss of his people, he surrendered. His surrender speech to General Howard shows the power of words through the use of appeals, arrangement, style, and tone.

Chief Joseph is the leader of the Nez Perce tribe. He led his tribe through many great accomplishments, although he had to end his success in a surrender. On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph and to announce his surrender speech in the midst of a battle. In his famous speech, I Will fight No More Forever, Chief Joseph effectively uses appeals like ethos, logos, and pathos.

Chief Joseph's speech contained lots of persuasive techniques like imagery , rhetorical question ,analogy etc.He added personal

When Americans expanded their country west, they interfered with many American Indian Tribes. In a letter he wrote to congress, he explained “This emigration should be voluntary… (but) if they remain within the limits of the states they must be subject to their laws” (Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress December 7, 1829). Andrew Jackson offered to let the American Indians stay if they followed their laws. But in 1831, Jackson forced the Native Americans out of their homelands starting the Indian Removal. According to a reprinted in Niles Weekly Register, the Cherokee’s said “We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. We have a perfect and original right to remain without interruption or molestation”. Jackson lied to the American Indians about allowing them to stay. Jackson did not act democratically because he did not allow the American Indians to stay and forced them to move west. Jackson was fair to his supporters, but not to

Chief Joseph's speech "An Indian view of Indian affairs" is a transcription of the speech of the great Indian warrior, based upon his alleged statements about the state of Indian-white relations. It is thus a second-hand source to some degree, because Chief Joseph never learned to speak English, and his speech is only transmitted through a translation. Joseph mourns the duplicity of the white man, defends his tribe's actions, and mourns the death of his people. He portrays his people as a people of peace who, after they realized that resistance against the white man was futile, chose to give up their guns. However, they were displaced, time and time again, after the white man grew greedier and desired the profit and gold that could be gained from the territories where his people lived.

As written once again by Jackson in document J, “...I suggest for your consideration...setting apart an ample district west of the Mississippi, and (outside) the limits of any state or territory now formed, to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it,”. Jackson was making an area of land for the Natives that the Americans couldn’t take over, which was a problem in the past for the Natives. The Natives home’s had been taken away by the Americans many times before, so now Jackson gives them their own land that nobody under law can take from

The removal of various members of Native American tribes from their indigenous lands to that which was east of the Mississippi was a widely debated topic in the early portion of the 19th century. Morally, proponents of this action cited the fact that these Native Americans were "savages" (Jackson) with no rights to their land; legally, they were expected to adhere to the rights of the states and the federal government of the U.S. Those who were against Indian removal believed that legally they were entitled to their land because of their lengthy history in occupying it, and that morally their rights as people substantiated their claims to the land. A review of both arguments reflects the fact that the latter position is the most convincing.

Imagine being taken out of your home and told that you must leave to a new, foreign land and leave the only thing that you know. This is what Native Americans during Andrew Jackson’s presidency had to live through. America was growing rapidly, expanding into the lower south of the U.S. During the 19th century white settlers moving into the area, were faced with Native Americans living on the land. These settlers were looked upon as a major obstacle for expansion of the United States. Driven by gold fever and the ideas for new business, the settlers were looking towards the government to help them take the land away from the Natives. Presidents had acknowledged the issue of Natives and whites coexisting and the problems that would be addressed, but it wasn’t until Andrew Jackson stepped into American history that a change would’ve be made.

The United States didn’t follow up with their promise, because of the gold that was found. Many miners fled into Sioux Land. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, the two Sioux chiefs, came together and tried to block the intruders. Chief Joseph felt that the white settlers were taking all that they own, almost like stealing. He feels that the white people have more power and can just take anything that the Native Americans own.

Neglecting the acknowledgment of the Indian nations as sovereign, Jackson exceeded the limitations of his own act and unlawfully coerced the Natives into giving up their land. Treaties asserting the right of Natives to possess their own land were disregarded. The right for tribes to enjoy freedoms as a disconnected land were overlooked, and the promise to defend the tribes was broken. Jackson remarks, “The tribes which occupied the

One of the many subjects of critical importance in American history was the relocation of American Indians, known as the Indian Removal. President Andrew Jackson favored the rapid settlement of Western and Southern lands by whites, therefore he wanted to make a drastic change, and he certainly did. In his two terms as president, Jackson worked to implement his vision of a politics of opportunity for all white men (The American Promise, 285). He held the belief that previous efforts to promote the assimilation of Indian peoples had failed. In his 1830 letter to Congress, Jackson announced the benefits resulting from the relocation of the native people, and the “pecuniary advantages” that such movement would bestow on the Anglo American population

Andrew Jackson was convinced that he was helping the Natives by forcing them out of the land they have thrived on for many, many years. He believed that by doing this, the Native Americans will “enable them {Native Americans} to pursue happiness in their own way” (Document A). This statement is not true because the Natives were already content and secure on the land they resided on. By removing them, he took away their happiness. Native Americans treat their land as if it is their own child, so the Indian Removal Act was very depressing for them. Jackson also said that by removing the Indians, it will prevent a war between the two groups. This is a false argument because instead of preventing a war, it actually sparked many wars between the two groups. While this was very saddening for the Natives, it was very good for American citizens. By conquering this land, it allowed the states “to advance in population, wealth, and power” (Document A). It allowed the Americans to gain gold and let them expand America as a whole. The Cherokees did not want to be removed from their land. In Document B, the Cherokees state that they want to “remain on the land of their fathers” because they feel that

When Andrew Jackson was in presidency, he attempted to take action against the native Indian tribes that inhabited the land that he wanted for his own settlers to claim. For settlers on the land, who were mostly Christian, brought up the concept of Manifest Destiny, in which they believed that it was God’s will to inhabit all of america in westward expansion, and to kill if they needed to in order to get their land. With that started, Jackson created the Indian Removal Act, in which allowed Jackson to offer the native Indian tribes land west of the Mississippi River, which wasn't good land, in return for their own land. Most tribes refused this offer. However, after a while, they were forced out of their homes violently with no time to pack their things by the army, who even they thought it was too violent of a thing to do.

Losing his brother was heartbreaking for Joseph. He was important to the tribe. Still, the Nez Perce fount to keep their land and live in the valley. Eventually Joseph became tired and sent a note to General Howard which read,