Summary Of The Fight For Land Tariro

The traditional view of the natives as the sole victim is an oversimplification of the problems revolving around immigration and cultural diversity. Just from these three personal accounts from the time period we have three very different views of the issue. So, to say that one peoples are the victim is a gross oversimplification and misrepresentation of history.

Many horrible atrocities occurred to the native people of America at the hands of the settlers. Various crimes such as thievery, murder, and other very disgraceful acts against these people without a second thought. Years since then, it is easy look at what happened and realize what the white people did wrong, but in order to truly understand, it is essential to know exactly the offenses are. Two quotes from two chiefs speak depths without many words on what happened.

Now, when it came to ownership of the land the Native Americans were known for hunting so, they needed their hunting land as well as land to grow crops. They were open for sharing land, “The South’s native people had well-defined hunting territories, fishing grounds, and agricultural plots which they vigorously defended against encroachment. However, they did not regard land as property that could be transferred in perpetuity to another individual or group”. However, the Europeans did not think the land should be shared. So, when they came over they took the land away from the

Over 115 million African American blacks-close to the 1930s population of the United States-were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade. And I read how when the slave market was glutted, the cannibalistic white powers of Europe carved up next, as their colonies, the richest areas of the black continent. And Europe's chancelleries for the next century played a chess game of naked exploration and power from Cape Horn to Cairo. (Malcom X p.81)

While the black slaves had been torn from their culture and their land. Not only were they forced into a situation where everything was different, but they were torn from their families. They colonist even had a system that was both Psychological and Physical to try and discipline the slaves. The slaves rarely submitted willingly.

“the black culture emerged from the ragged edges of a European society. This was the real necessity that was historically constructed by the white supremacist to bring us down. We learned to live and deal with whatever came our way. The ragged edges of not being able to eat, having a place to live, or health care developed our culture into what it is today.” (Kruger and Mariani, pp 93). Blacks, along with other people of color, have always been always been oppressed for how they looked. If one goes back in history, they will find that the Native Americans who first inhabited this land were also subjected to oppression, genocide, rape, killing etc. It was a five hundred year struggle that decimated a cultures to the point where they are almost extinct. One would think that with the changing of eras actions like this would stop, but they do not. The genocide of Native Americans is still on going. On Pine Ridge reservation, in South Dakota, the murder rate is seventy percent higher than the national average. This is easily one of the most dangerous places in America today.

The immigrant history of African –Americans is unlike the acclimation of any other migration of other ethnic groups with the ambition to live better lives. As one of the most important colonizers of the Americas, the British had the difficult task of seizing and securing land from Native Indians and creating frontier settlements. The fight to establish Caucasian presence was not absent from the blood, sweat and tears of many to survive long winters with the continuation of establishment of new colonies.

The issue of slavery has been in infamous part of American history since it first started in the 1600’s in Jamestown, Virginia. During the colonial era, white male landowners needed help on their land taking care of crops, so they would purchase the African slaves after they arrived by boat and have them work the land as well as other tasks that needed to be done such as tending to

Indigenous people went through a lot from white brutality, alcoholism, the killing and driving off of game, and the expropriation of farmland, but all of these things added together explained the degree of their defeat.

Colonial dispossession left the aboriginal people stripped of their land so the Europeans could take ownership.

were living in flooded tents where the people were without food or fire. The town and the county had stopped giving help because the situation had become too unbearable (DeMott

Imagine you, a 12 year old girl, are weaving baskets in your beautiful village along the river when you see settler's wagons coming over the hills. Along with them is a strange man with a piece of paper eagerly running towards to you exclaiming words to your family in a foreign language. You ask your mother what is happening, while the strange white man is rambling on to your father the chief. Within weeks, half your tribe is slaughtered and forced onto a reservation where no one is safe.

The indigenous people of Africa suffered many setbacks, when the Europeans arrived. When the Europeans arrived in Africa they made the indigenous people feel inferior, lack self-confidence, and be stripped of their responsibility. As shown by Document 2, when it says, “...convince us that our civilization was nothing less than savagery, thus giving us complexes which led to our being branded as irresponsible and lacking in self-confidence.” Some people may agree, that this seems like something out of a genocide. Originally the indigenous people of Africa were supposed to be cheap labor. However, this soon changed when the Europeans enslaved the African people. This is portrayed in Document 6, when it says, “...Beneath the noonday sun, My brother was strong…” By doing this they stole all of the human rights from the Africans, who had done nothing wrong. This is shown in Document 3, when it says, “Whereas fundamental human rights...are denied to Africans.” During this extremely horrific time in African history men were worked to death, and women were raped. This is found in Document 6, when it says,”The White Man killed my father,My father was proud, The White Man seduced my mother, My mother was beautiful.” This shows the negative effects are much worse for the Africans, than for the Europeans. But, there are some positives in this dark hour. When the Europeans arrived in Africa, they provided the

Being a full citizen in America was for the Blacks a long trajectory replete with a vehement resistance and relentless perseverance. Blacks fought heart and soul in order to put to an end the infringement of their civil liberties by the Whites. Indeed, after the discovery of America, the new settlers sought for cheap and hard workers who would willy-nilly perform and bear the intensive plantation’s work in their behalf. Therefore, after the inability of the Indian labourers and white indentured servants to withstand the harsh conditions, Africans seemed to be the sought after. Accordingly, Blacks’ relations with their homeland were torn up. Unwillingly they transported to American and for about three centuries they were treated as slaves and

There had been many chances to leave over the years but the tribes, and particularly the Anuak wanted to stay, to farm, to worship. They had not asked for this help, and yet they were being forced to move. According to a report by the Human Rights Watch, "Waiting Here for Death," the evictions were definitely not voluntary, unless voluntary means arrests, beatings, rapes and killings.(1)