A Land So Strange Sparknotes

This very interesting and well written book is a successful effort to recover an unanachronistic view of interactions between native peoples and Europeans in the American Great Lakes region between the mid-17th century and the end of the War of 1812. White deals extensively with events usually described in terms of European conquest of native peoples or French-British imperial rivalry but White's perspective is both novel and insightful. The Middle Ground that White describes in not a geographic locale but a metaphor for an interesting type of cultural interaction and accommodation. In the mid-17th century, the powerful Iroquois confederation had fragemented many other tribal groupings and driven their remnants westwards. Some of these groups

First contact between the Indigenous Americans and Europeans is perhaps one of the most impactful points in Native American history, setting an important precedent for the power dynamic during the next century. This initial contact between the two contrasting groups is one that can be described with words of awe, great ignorance, and perhaps unfortunate circumstances as it would be the precursor to the eventual exploitation of the American Indigenous people. Although there are few sources of Native record on the topic, with help from Reverend John Heckewelder’s account, The Arrival of the Dutch, it is possible to better understand the critical responses of the Indigenous people from first contact in Manhattan. Furthermore, analysis of how

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.

The Massachusetts bay Colony was found y the puritans and religious minority group who migrated to the New World seeking to create a model religious community The Puritans believed that the anglican church needed to be purified of the influences of catholicism.

In Exiles and Pioneers, John Bowes argues that "the history of these Indian communities in the nineteenth century encompasses a contest over geographic and political place” in the United States (3). He focuses not only on how moving west affected the Native Americans, but how the political warfare around them also held a tremendous amount uncertainty over them. These Indian communities would now need to learn the dealings of the Indian tribes in the west, but also learn how to pacify the Americans enough to keep hold of their new land whilst holding enough strength to not be seen as weak and removable. Continually, they now had to learn how to cultivate new land and be prosperous in a completely different environment from their old lands in

Events that occur throughout a period of time have an interesting effect on the people, places, and landscapes around it. In the course of history, particularly the history of North American Indigenous Peoples, we can see how events have influenced their way of life. Since the arrival of Europeans in North America, it is easy to notice how a singular event can cause shifts within indigenous cultures, communities and the landscape. Although shifts within and between cultures and communities can be good, the shifts Native Americans faced with the arrival of Europeans were usually not. For centuries Natives struggled to preserve their lands, culture, and people as they were slowly being assimilated into the new Euro-American way of life and colonization. In this, we can not only see the works of Euro-American hegemony but also the fight of Natives to defend and protect their cultural sovereignty. Throughout the course of this essay I am going to explore the ways in which Euro-American hegemony and the fight to preserve culture relate to the Laguna-Pueblo history in the novel, Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko.

"The Colonization of North America." In Modern History Sourcebook. April 1999- [cited 17 September 2002] Available from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall.mod/modsbook.html., http://curry.eduschool.virginia.edu.

The migration of the African-American population from the South to the North during the war times is what brought about so much racial tension. the black population, seeing many open jobs up North, rushed to fill in the openings. They were even shipped in as strike breakers, to take the jobs of the white men who were refusing to work due to terrible conditions in the factories.

Anyways, during the war I saw the increase of many African-Americans moving to north. It was due to the plethora of jobs opening in the north. They called this move “The Great Migration.” After the war about twenty-five percent of African-Americans from the South moved to the North. I also noticed that more women were employed during and after the war. Many American women made a huge impact during the war. That was when finally, Americans believed that a woman around the country were fit to work. During the war I saw many of teachers and classmates leaving school. Some of my teachers left to go overseas to fight in the war. So, some of the schools were shut down due to lack of funding and teachers. Not only some of the teachers gone, but some of my classmates. There were forced to not attend school because they're needed there to support their family. Some left to watch their siblings, cook, and work on their family farms. Unfortunately, I was one of the thousands of students who had to leave school just to support my family.

When war erupted in Europe in August 1914, most Americans, African Americans included, saw no reason for the United States to become involved. This sentiment strengthened as war between the German-led Central Powers and the Allied nations of France, Great Britain, and Russia ground to a stalemate and the death toll increased dramatically. The black press sided with France, because of its purported commitment to racial equality, and chronicled the exploits of colonial African soldiers serving in the French army. Nevertheless, African Americans viewed the bloodshed and destruction occurring overseas as far removed from the immediacies of their everyday lives.

European immigration to the colonies drastically changed between the late 1600s and the 1700s. At the beginning, it started out with the English coming to the colonies looking for a better life, but that did not work out too well. From there, things started to get worse and worse. However, there were some positive impacts on European immigration to the colonies. However, none of the positive impacts can change what had occurred around the 1700s, the beginning of slavery.

World War I, also known as The Great War, started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. There were 2 sides to the war, the Allied powers and the Central Powers. The U.S. joined the war, in 1917, after Germany sunk British and French ships with U.S. passengers on it. While America was at war, blacks moved up North, started the Harlem Renaissance, and created racial pride, even though they weren’t treated well (Great).

As children and students we were taught that the Legendary Christopher Columbus founded America. However history has proven that this alleged discovery is far from the truth. Not only had the Spanish already settled Florida, but the Native Americans also known as Indians have already inhabited America. From this awareness of “New Found Land” English settlers intruded on Native American land and took over America under what was called manifest destiny. In the 19th century United States, Manifest Destiny was a belief that was widely believed that the true destiny of American settlers was to expand and move across the continent to spread American traditions and their institutions, along with enlightening more primitive nations, also known as the Indians. This destiny clearly was accomplished and today almost 240 years later there have been many laws and administrative law cases that has aroused from the accomplishment of Manifest Destiny in regards to Native Americans.

In the years 1910-1970 our country saw one of the largest population shifts in history. More than 6 million African Americans trying to escape segregation laws and poor economic opportunities fled the South in hopes of finding a better way of life in the North, Midwest, and West. This would later been called The Great Migration.

Without The Great Migration, or the migration of African Americans from 1915 to 1970 from the south to the north, the north would have suffered economically (Wilkerson 8). Specifically, without the Great Migration, the north would have faced extensive job shortages, that would have eventually led to economic turmoil. One cause of The Great Migration was the need for southern African Americans to take industrial jobs in the north. Furthermore, during times of war, many men were removed from the workforce, meaning that the north needed additional workers to fill the now vacated spots. (The Great) The north needed the southern African Americans in order to fill these slots, and without them, the north’s economy would have suffered