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Native American Informative Speech

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Introduction How might the United States look and be different if the Native Americans were able to remain where they were and were able to continue their lives as they were? America would look and be very different but there were things that led to this not being possible because of the removal of most of the Indians. Such as, The Trail of Tears, The Battle of Wounded, and The Chief Joseph Surrender Speech. All theses things played a role in the removal because they either got rid of the indians, killed them, or left them with very miniscule amounts of land. The Battle of Wounded Knee In January 1889 the Native Americans started a dance known as the ghost dance. The ghost dance was started by a native american named Wovoka. He started …show more content…

They didn’t have enough food for everyone and people were starving. He stated that his people didn’t have any blankets and were freezing to death. The speech word for word is : “I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” It is sad to think that the English were attacking the native americans this much. I think Chief Joseph surrendered because he didn’t want his people to suffer any more. I think if Chief Joseph hadn’t surrendered things would have been much worse. I think if he hadn’t surrendered, the English wouldn’t have stopped attacking the native americans. I think the English would have killed all of the native americans they could

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