Personal Narrative: The Shoshone Bannock Tribes

The Blackfoot People are one of the many Native American Indian tribes that roamed America in the early 1700s. Like many tribes they were nomadic hunters that lived in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta. The name is said to have come from the colour of the peoples shoes that were made of leather. They had typically dyed or painted the soles of their shoes black.

In 1804 I was asked by Thomas Jefferson to go to our newly purchase the Louisiana territory. I left in 1804 with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find a northwest passage and tell the Native Americans that we own the newly purchased Louisiana territory. Lewis, Clark, and I also found many new plants and animal life. After we discovered that there was not a northwest passage we started going back home. This expedition was very long it took us 2 years and 4 months.

The Cherokee Tribe is among the more popularly known Native American tribes in the United States. They are mainly remembered for their fight against the U.S. government and the Supreme Court and their forced migration in the Trail of Tears. However, as mentioned by North Carolina Digital History and Robert Conley, because of their written language, many of their traditions and history is well known and taught in schools as an example of Native American culture (10.2 and 105). Michael D. Green and Theda Perdure introduce Cherokee history in the book, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents. The tribe originally inhabited southeast North America in what is currently Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, and into northern Georgia and Alabama “1). From 1836 to 1839 the Cherokee Tribe was forcibly and harshly removed and relocated in Oklahoma in what is known as The Trail of Tears (Green 160) Throughout all the changes the Cherokee had to undergo as they lost their traditional land and home, they were able to keep their traditions, rituals, and ceremonies and some, such as the dance and medicine use, are still practiced today. Traditions and rituals are repeated over and over, year after year. For an event to have this much significance in a society it must have been important from the time it began. As Miller Williams, a poet from 1930-2015, said, “Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our

This tribe was a poor group of people who had suffered many attacks from other tribes, in addition, settling far to the west got them lack of knowledge about these strangers, white men. Fortunately, the presence of Sacajawea and her baby boy in the corps was her greatest contribution, which gained Shoshone’s trust. Eventually, they found the tribe on August 8, 1805, and Sacajawea again played the significant roles, the interpreter and peacemaker. Via a translation chain, captain Lewis wanted to trade goods for horses with Shoshone tribe. As regards Sacajawea, she had an emotional reunion after recognizing her brother, Cameahwait, Shoshone tribe’s chief as well. Finally, the captains got the horses with one condition they would return with guns for Shoshone tribe.

I found it interesting that the number of jobs in the work force nearly tripled, but those that were employed only rose by about a hundred people. The unemployment rate also rose to nearly triple what is was as well. It is staggering to see that the average income was under $10,000. Just take a minute to think how little money that is and you aren’t even sure if most people were on the higher or lower side of $10,000. I founded it very interesting that the Crow Creek Reservation was supposed to be a prison camp, but just think how many people it makes a good home for instead. I loved looking at the attractions or various things that were available on your reservation.

Everyone has a worldview, a perspective with which we evaluate the world. A set of beliefs and values that are honoured and withheld by societies and groups of people. My worldview corresponds to Theism which is the belief in the existence of one god as a creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creations. There are several tribes within the First Nations with differing worldviews. I will be comparing the worldview of the Blackfoot tribe to my own worldview. One difference between the values of the Blackfoot tribe and Theism is that the Blackfoot tribe perspective is extremely spiritual oriented. They believe strongly in supernatural powers and that everything has a spirit, whether alive or inanimate

So today I helped my mama plant crops while my papa was out hunting for dinner. My uncles and brothers were building a mound for my grandmother who had just passed away. My aunt and her new husband were preparing to live in their grasshouse, that mama and I had helped with. My grandfather had just approved my aunt Shiloh to marry Achak from the Ely Shoshone Tribe. My new uncle had already had 3 other wives making my aunt his fourth wife. When the wedding ceremony was over, our tribe and Eastern Shawnee Tribe decided to play a game of stickball. Achak, my uncle, father, brother, and two cousins played against the Shawnee Tribe men and boys. My tribe had won the game, after 45mins of playing. Heading home, these strange men with pale skin and

After a long portage, we arrived at the great falls of the Missouri. The falls were approximately 300 feet wide and about 80-100 feet high. We weren’t able to bring along the barge on the crossing of the falls. We decided to leave the barge for the return trip but we decided to bring some pirogues which were considerably smaller, but would do the job when we get to the continuation of the river after the mountains.

What are Shoshones ? Shoshones are an Indian tribe people might also refer to them as the snake nation. This tribe usually stays in both east and west of the Rocky Mountains. Shoshones are very diverse, some Shoshones live west of the Rockies in roofless grass huts. In order for them not to starve,they would hunt fish,birds,and rabbits. Other Shoshones also lived in east and north,these Shoshones lived in tepees and they hunted buffalo.

As I continued forth on my journey to find my herd I ran into another tribe of Native Americans. These ones however were not as peaceful as the Navajo. They were known for raiding white settlements and repeatedly left the reservations that had been sent to. These indigenous people are called the Chiricahua Apache. I have just encountered these people after one of their raids in Southern Arizona. They were riding on horse back up to the Chiricahua Mountains. They were very upset about how they had been treated by the United States government and military. They had recently escaped from the San Carlos Reservation. They were tired of staying on reservations so they left and constantly raided American settlers. They were very hard for the United

As I am thrown from my raft into the rapids, I come to grips with reality. This is a situation I no longer have control in, as Mother Nature has wrapped her arms around me. My thoughts run rampant through my head, “Will I be alive three minutes from now?”.

After reaching the outside edges of this musical arena, the true penetration of excitement occurs. An enormous steel plate decorated with a brilliant brass halo hangs on a slim, silver frame circumscribing the magnificent steel plate. A trapezoid of thin aluminum tiles placed in two meticulous rows across a thick ebony base rests gently, waiting for a majestic and seemingly undiscovered musician to compose amazing melodic tunes of grace and peace on its brittle keys. Sturdy skins of beastly predators stretch taut across their compressed wooden shell identical to a native American replication of a warrior’s cry as he marches his tribe into battle. Trailing in the forgotten distance perches a somber tower of drab coffers stacked with immense

Between the ages of 6 and 12 I wanted to purse a variety of careers. I can always remember wanting to be a dancer and a singer. I believed both occupations were a strong possibility for me because I knew I had a good voice and even better dance skills. My dance teachers, as well as numerous family members, always complimented my choreography, my passion, and my skill for dance. Also, I always sang at family functions and events and I enjoyed all the compliments I received. At some point I took a liking to teaching because I loved school so much. I often played “school” by myself, as I enjoyed creating assignments.

This month our group is going to split up to cover more land. Lewis was heading up to the great falls. When I retraces the route back to the Yellowstone River. Ordway is leaving me to meet Lewis at the Missouri. Lewis had a encounter with a group of Indians called the black foot. He had to fight them and he put a peace medallion around their necks to show peace to the other Indians. The Shoshone Indians sold us horses. The Shoshone wanted to break up power of other indians so the french traded them weapons like muskets to protect them selfs from getting raided. This is the end of this journey Im going to explore more.

For a while I struggled with knowing what career field I should enter. Coming into my junior year I started seriously considering my strengths and weaknesses and how they would tailor to a specific career field. At the time I was apart of a group called Faith Expressions. Faith Expressions is a dance and sign-language group created by my mother and another lady who leads the same group at another church. Originally my mother choreographed the dances we would learn and preform, but being significantly older than all the other girls participating I decided to ask for a leadership position in the group as a dance choreographer. Over the course of 6 months I taught and choreographed a dance to 7 girls ranging in age from 5-9. During my time mentoring them I realized not only my passion for teaching but my passion for teaching