Nez Perce War Justified

Despite that, the United States government told the Indians that they would not invade their lands. They soon heard that the Indians had fertile land and decided to allow settlers to move west. “After hearing tales of fertile land and a great mineral wealth in the West, the government soon broke their promises established in the Treaty of Fort Laramie by allowing thousands of non-Indians to flood into the area.”. (Victoriana) To make more land available to the settlers the government had to make reservations that would separate the Indians from the whites. In exchange for the Indians moving to

American foreign policy during the 1890s was based on many factors that each acted as an individual justification for our country’s behavior as a whole. Racism, nationalism, commercialism, and humanitarianism each had its own role in the actions America took against other nations.

The making of the treaty was a problem and a conflict for several reasons. One is that the Indians didn’t like it. They were very afraid of being moved onto a reservation. They hated being on reservations because they knew that the Americans were going to put them on the same reservation as 40 other tribes. Plus they didn’t want to move onto the same place with an enemy tribe!(Schuster 65) Neither would I. They would probably get into a fight or an all out war actually! Furthermore there were hardly any resources for one tribe, so how were they going to feed several? Especially when there were hundreds in each tribe! (Lambert, 150) Another reason the Indians didn’t like the treaty was because they couldn’t tell if the Americans were telling the truth, America had broken promises and ripped up treaties with other nations and tribes before, why not this one? Then there was the reason about not wanting to cede their land. It was theirs to keep. They had rightfully claimed that land and who were the settlers to take it? They had made that land livable and they were not about to give it up to a nation that was greedy and selfish in their eyes. Another reason why they didn’t like the treaty was that they didn’t want to give up their land. They wanted to be able to hunt and grow plants and fish, use their own herbs, use their own spices without having to beg, buy, and starve.

With the settlement of the American West, I discern that it was not nice to force Native Americans off their land onto reservations. There was a treaty given to the Sioux for the rights to the Black Hills until gold was discovered in the area. The white miners flocked to the territory to get the gold. I don’t think it was right that with the treaty the U.S. government still ordered the Native Americans back to their reservations. With the conflict that occurred between the U.S. Government and the Native American Indian in Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer’s Last Stand, marked a significant victory for the Native Americans and unfavorable for U.S. Army’s defeat. The Native Americans would have to remain in government-controlled reservations.

" These lands were taken away barely 50 years after they were assessed. The United States government played a cruel game when it relocated its Indian population (some could argue this as survival of the fittest, evolution). They turned a blind and mostly bias eye when it came to Indian politics and treaties they had made twenty years prior. They made promised that were going to be broken, and which there were no way of avoiding. In short, the government in a way did the same thing to the Indians that Jackson did to the Bank:

1876 was a busy year for America. It was the 100th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence,

Once the Sioux figured out that they now had a chance to push the Ponca’s out of Indian Territory, that’s just what they did. They took their crops, horses, and gave many threats towards them. The third most famous war called the Great Sioux war began in 1876. Although the U.S. government had won the war, it still didn’t mean they would stop pleasing the Sioux. The U.S. government gave what was left of the Ponca land to the Sioux. The treaty they made with the Ponca’s was completely broken. They cheated the Ponca Indians, and they were furious. In January 1877, Edward C. Kemble asked the Ponca’s to let him speak during church service. He told them that the government had given their fields and farm to the Sioux for a greater purpose. He also told them that they be getting new virgin lands in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). By this time the there only 738 Ponca Indians in the tribe, which meant they were not much of a force to the federal government.

Later on in 1854, the Ojibwe also requested that the United States establish reservations and fulfill the needs of the future Ojibwe. The direct result of the requests was the establishment of four reservations in Wisconsin (68). In return for supplying these demands, the United States asked for the North Shore of Lake Superior and the island of La Point (Bell, PowerPoint, 12/20/2014). It wasn 't all bad for the Ojibwe. More often than not, the United States had compensated the Ojibwe with money, weapons, and supplies in place of the land they gave up. Other times, the United States had forced the Indians to listen to their demands through the use of military force (Bell, PowerPoint, 12/10/2015).

There was of course a reason why the whites wanted to take the land from the Native Americans and why the humans wanted to take the land from the Na’vi. Gold, which is of course very valuable, was discovered on Cherokee land in 1828. Now, not only did the settlers want this land, but the miners did as well. This caused a greater demand for the Cherokee’s land than ever before. It is similar in the movie “Avatar”. The humans are relentless, and will stop at nothing to take the land from the Na’vi people. They want the land for mining a very profitable mineral, that can be worth up to $40 million per kilogram, called Unobtanium.

It was wrong for the government to reduce the Indian’s land by 90 million acres. Was it not enough forcing them onto reservations? They were taken from their native lands, placed in reservations, and then had their land reduced. How could this possible be considered okay? In the course book on page 546, it talks about how in order to protect the Indians from land speculators, the government held the allotted land in trust. The Indians could not sell the land for 25 years. I did some research on the Dawes Allotment Act and found an article titled, “Cleveland signs devastating Dawes Act into law”, written by the History.com Staff. In this article, it talks more about the trust the lands were put in. As you can see the American ideals of “freedom”

In reading Alfred A. Caves’ article, it says that Jackson violated treaties that the U.S. had with the Indians in order to remove them from their land. It says that the government “misunderstood and often times misrepresent the provisions of the law” . Many times the treaties with the Indians were not seen as actual agreement that the government didn’t have to follow and abide by what was said in the agreement. When the Indian Removal Act came along in 1830, the act made things even more complicated. One of the

The Indians did nothing wrong, they can’t be the villains. In “Chief Joseph Speaks…,” Joesph states, “On account of the treaty made by the other bands of the Nez Perce the white man claimed my lands. We were troubled with the white men crowding over the line. Some of them were good men, and we lived on peaceful terms with them, but

The article that I read was about the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. One of things that seem crazy to me was how much land the Native Americans actually gave up. According to the article, the size of the reservation went from around twelve million to roughly six hundred thousand. This seems crazy to me that they would give up that much land for not that much contribution. The article does talk about how the native Americans were given money for them moving the border lines in 1886. They were given $80,000 annually for ten years. One other thing that seems crazy to me is the loyalty of the tribe during this period. The article discusses that the Three Tribes might have been so loyal because they didn’t have the numbers to lash out against

Were the Americans justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945?

In 1876, Congress called for the removal of certain Native American tribes to ‘Indian Territory,’ which is in present-day Oklahoma. The Ponca tribe was one of the tribes called to be moved to the Indian Territory. The Ponca, unlike some of the other Indian tribes, actually had peaceful relations with the United States at the time. They did not fight back against the United States when government officials first came to visit the tribes; in fact, the Ponca tried to stay as diplomatic as possible with the U.S. and even signed treaties and trade agreements with them. However, the U.S. broke their treaties with the Ponca and instead removed them from their land to the Indian Territory. Chief Standing Bear, one of the chiefs in the Ponca tribe, tells his account of the removal of his tribe in the 1870s and how the United States poorly handled it.