Native Americans From The River Basin

The Apalachee were a group of farming Indians who inhabited Northwest Florida ever since around one thousand A.D. The Apalachee were concentrated around the present day city of Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. In this essay, the diet, traditions, family life, clothing, government, architecture and more about the Apalachee Indians will be explored. A precis of their timeline in the Florida panhandle will also be examined.

Like the Oneida, the Cherokee men were the hunters and the women were the farmers. Although the women did most of the farming, the entire Cherokee community would come together to plant and harvest the big fields of corn, pumpkins, beans, gourds, and potatoes. The women would keep personal gardens outside their homes to have fast growing corn and other produce that they could quickly use to make a meal. The Cherokee were famous for the many dishes that they made with corn. They made breads, soups, used corn as a side dish, and used it in stew. Corn was a necessity in the Cherokee community.

The “frontier” was an American movement westward beginning in 1807 that was driven by a desire for a land where a fresh start was possible and a space where there was less European control, as well as the thirst for economic growth and creating jobs. Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier shaped American history and largely contributed to the idea of American exceptionalism. Although the motive for the expansion westward can be viewed as positive, the intent to “civilize” the “uncivilized” groups of the west including the Native Americans, however, was far from moral or just. The frontier was a means of enlarging the economy by creating new communities and an American historical landmark because of the amount of American citizens migrating westward with hopes of new opportunities, however, the frontier also brought unethical treatment of native western groups.

The Lenape Indians are the natives of New Jersey and were around well before any of the explorers or our ancestors came to the area. They had a society rich of culture, traditions, beliefs and customs. They are one of the largest Indian tribes on the east coast, containing three primary divisions or clans. Frederick Hodge (1907) worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology and has done extensive research on the topic of Native Americans. Hodge compiled a detailed reference book called The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, which gives detailed histories on many of the American Indian tribes. According to Hodge, the Lenape or Delaware Indians were an Indian society based from the Delaware area all the way to southern New York in

At the start of 1830s, about 125000 Native Americas were living on more than 25 million acres of land on Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida, the region that would be referred to as the Deep South. However, by the end of the decade, only a few of these Native Americans remained in this region . While following the interests of the white settlers, who wanted to cultivate cotton on Indian Lands, president Jackson and the federal government forced the natives to vacate their homeland and have thousands miles walk to a designated “Indian territory” which was at the west of the Mississippi river. The journey and the route that they travelled was hindered with many adverse and sometime deadly challenges and it came to be referred to as the trail of tears from the Cherokee phrase “Nunna daul Tsuny” that directly translates into “The Trail Where They Cried” . This Population transfer led to the removal of many members of the tribes that did not want to assimilate into the European lifestyles.

The United States acquired vast territories between the time of the Revolution and the Civil War, paying a price economically, socially, and politically. This unit examines the forces that drove such rapid expansion, the settlers moving into these regions, and the impact on the Native Americans already there.

For more than 10,000 years the Native American people of the Columbia River region, specifically the Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla Indian tribes, migrated in a yearly cyclical pattern. The tribes would travel from the lowlands of the Columbia River to the highlands in the Blue Mountains in search of safety, shelter, food, opportunities for trade and resources of energy. The most abundant sources of food included elk, deer, salmon, berries and roots. Each of the aforementioned food sources were spread throughout different locales and thus required a continued pattern of movement, place to place from season to season, to collect each target food. Accumulated meats, berries and roots would be stored for the year to come, and to last through

The establishment of the original thirteen British colonies was not the first time that foreigners had reached the present-day powerhouse of a country, which is the United States of America. One example of Europeans in North America before the colonists was the French fur traders had frequently traded with the Native Americans. However, when the settlers arrived in the swamp studded marshes of James’ Town, which was the first colony, they must had been upset, as they were primarily after valuable minerals: gold, silver, as Britain’s economic system, at the time, was mercantilism—in which the main goal was to increase a nation’s wealth by regulating all of the nation’s commercial interests. Before the settlers arrived in the New World, French had traded some with the Indians. In A Micmac Indian Replies to the French, the French called the Native Americans’ home a “little hell”, a statement that the Micmac Indians didn’t find too tasteful—the Micmac Indian leader then asked why the French would leave their paradise, and risk their lives to reach a “little hell” . This reply from the Indian leader shows a few things—first, the Indians weren’t too impressed with the customs of the French, second—the Indians were knowledgeable of how important, as well as costly, their homeland was to the Europeans—and what goods it contained. Lucky for the settlers, one of their other interests was in the new world in plenty—land. One of the reasons the Europeans needed land so badly was that

From the time America first declared its independence, to the country we know it as today, the U.S. underwent many dramatic changes, as did American settlers. Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis stated that as each American generation moved West, the settlers became more American. The first settlers in America on the East Coast arrived thinking and acting like Europeans. However, as settlers began to move west, they started to loosen ties with European ways and develop a more American way of thinking and acting. Without a doubt, Turner’s frontier thesis can be proven upon examination of the growth of America and actions of Americans moving West because as settlers moved West, they became more democratic and less tolerant of hierarchy,

Native American agriculture was largely subsistence farming and hunter-gatherer ontogeny, based on the idea the hunters and the animals shared a mutual understanding and respect and not taking more than absolutely necessary. “By the Mississippian period (A.D. 900-1550), the largest group of indigenous people within southern Appalachia, the Cherokee, had become proficient in growing crops” (428). It wasn’t until the Spanish settler’s introduction of foreign flora and fauna in the region that the subsistence farming and hunting began to shift to marketable and large scale agriculture in order incorporate new foods into their diets such as peaches, watermelons, and sweet potatoes, as well as domesticated

In the book I Wish I’d Been There, there are two chapters that can easily be compared and contrasted, the McGillivray Moment and Chief Joseph Surrenders. Both chapters describe in painful detail how two Native American tribes, the Creek Indians during the 1790’s and the Nez Perce of the 1870’s, were abruptly kicked off the land they had inhabited for generations. They were pursuaed by the use of treaties, by representatives of the American Government. These three representatives were General Washington, General Howard and General Miles and all three went to extreme measures in order to get the land they coveted, they even twisted the rules of war and went against the law.

Most new settlers that came into this land, that was referred to as the New World, before it became the United States, did not have much respect for the original occupants of the land, the Native American tribes. Native Americans have been living in America for thousands of years and no knew about them until the late 15th century. The Spanish were one of the first settlers to discover the new land, followed by the French and then lastly the British. These, new colonists had a huge impact on the relationships with the Natives and the effects of it, are still seen today. The British were a very powerful factor in the colonial expansion of the New World, but they we not the only ones who made an influence on the relationship. The Spanish and

The Tribes traveled during the spring & summer seasons as hunters & gatherers, collecting foods for use during the winter months

There are three main Native American tribes in South Carolina. They were known as the Cherokee, Catawba, and Yemassee.

Their diets consisted of squash, corn beans, wild berries including cranberries, blue berries which were also used as natural dyes. Wild nuts from the hickory and chestnuts added protein to their diets while hunting and fowl catching increases additional protein sources from the land. The river and stream ran flush with trout and salmon every season providing annual diet varieties throughout the year. The incorporation of hunter gatherer and agricultural society for the natives proved to benefit communities as populations increased in number. Tribal members live in wigwams constructed from tree bark and bent over branches. Some communities build long houses which fit several families in on building. Such housing was again made from organic materials including tree bark from pine trees which were abundant in the virgin New England forests with canopies surpassing their heads.