The Sand Creek Massacre

Natives were humiliated and dehumanized. Spaniards did not see the huge genocide that was going on , they just saw the land they was stealing from the natives and the money they were getting out of it. Time past and more and more settled in what now is called the United States. The Englishmen have settled near the east coast when coming to the Americas. English settlements kept growing so they needed to wipe out the natives out to have the land. “Not able to enslave the Indians, and not able to live with them, the English decided to exterminate them” (page, 19). The Indians learned that Europeans were and will always be stronger than them. They learned that European weapons will always be more powerful then whatever they made. Europeans had guns, Indians had spares. Europeans were devious and trick Indians to turn to each other. Tribes were tricked by these masterminds and started conflicted with each other and battles. The Europeans had mass murdered the native Americans with no sympathy. The native Americans could not do anything about it so they had to listen to the European due to the fact they were more powerful. As for the Englishmen they used any type of excuse to get into war. Europeans called native Americans Indians because when Columbus arrived in America he believed that he was in India so he thought they were Indians, its in politically incorrect but calling them Indians is okay because they truly traveled from Asia to America

People had issues with the Navajo because for a long time the Navajo [sic] Indians have murdered and robbed the people of New Mexico.

The event, known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, is one of honorableness since it was enacted to promote the liberty of the real victims of the time, the slaves. To only acknowledge the five civilians as the targets would be to ignore the history of deaths in the slave community and the then current 3.2 million

On Aug. 17, 1862 four Dakota men killed five people living at the homesteads of Robinson Jones and Howard Baker in Acton Township, Minnesota. When word of the killings reached the Lower Sioux Reservation, a group of Dakota men reasoned that it was time to fight Minnesota's European-American population and to reclaim their ancestral lands. Without complete agreement from the Dakota community these men went directly to Taoyateduta, "His Scarlet Nation" (Little Crow), an influential Dakota leader, to convince him to lead the confrontation. After intense debate, Little Crow agreed, but reluctantly, for he feared the conflict would end disastrously for the Dakota nation. “You will die like rabbits when the hungry wolves hunt them in the Hard Moon,” he is quoted as having said, but added “Taoyateduta

The mormons would attack other people because of their past persecution and from the fear of being attacked ,being put in custody by federal troops .The mormons would get heavily attacked and driven from their home,they were also killed in large masses ,the persecution did not justify the killing of mountain meadows.Evidence found suggest that church brigham young was responsible for or aware of mountain meadows massacre before it happened they said.Thinking that it was true their wasnt any strong evidence to the contrary.The responsibility of mountain

Few things that happen in the United State can move a whole country into action, but when they do happen it will leave an impression that cannot be easily erased. This is the case with the infamous Columbine. Columbine is a name that will forever resonate in the minds of those who have lived through and survived the bloody incident that will forever change the world. It only took Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold one day and a few weeks of careful planning to strike fear into the eyes of a whole nation and for some families bringing their happy lives tumbling down to sadness of losing a loved one. Twelve students and one teacher were killed in the deadliest massacre before Sandy Hook and they will never leave the memories of the people of

Now I am going to answer some questions about Mountain Meadows Massacre.Where were the emigrants going? They were going from Arkansas to California. How did the emigrants run into the mormons? The emigrants ran into the mormons because they wanted some supplies from the mormons, but were refused by the local mormons. Why did the mormons attack the emigrants? The mormons attacked the emigrants probably because the mormons were deep of fear and paranoia. Did the mormon church have something to do with the killing? The church had nothing to do with the killing because the president if the church had no idea. What was the mountain meadows massacre? The mountain meadows massacre was the killing of 120 people. Where is mountain meadows at? Mountain Meadows is located in a mountain valley about 35 miles

In 1866, the army is intent on building roads and railroads through Indian territory. Five sioux are sent into Powder River Country to convince Indian chiefs to sign the treaty at Fort Laramie. However, before the treaty is signed the meeting is done. The Army just continues with their plan, and constructs the Bozeman trail. The indians follow the regiment building the road. The Indians vex the soldiers and mess with their progress. The Indians attacked the fort and killed all the soldiers there, including a dog. The ambush became known as Fetterman’s Massacre. This not entirely correct though because the Indians lost more troops than the white soldiers did. The Army then sends in a commission but they get nothing done. When the indians attack

In the article titled “The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance”, by author M. Annette Jaimes there is a topic of the crimes committed against the indigenous people in North America. The article mentions the brutalities that happened against the Native American people of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The article includes a part of the book Sand Creek that described an event that occurred on November of 1864 in which armed men massacred Native Americans (Ortiz, 2000). The heated battle between the indigenous people and the people that migrated from Europe lasted for decades. The article mentions quite a few times how history has been robbed of knowing the real truth about the settling of many new Europeans to North America. The people that were in charge of murdering the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were compared to historical figures that have been known to have a disturbing past in committing massacres certain cultural groups. One of the people that were used as comparison was the infamous Adolf Hitler. There was also a similarity between the SS and the Colorado Volunteers, who were the men who killed the many Cheyenne and Arapaho people. Both the SS and the Colorado Volunteers had similar goals and committed crimes towards the group who they believed stopped them from achieving those goals. A man by the name of David Nichols is said to being also involved in the events involving the Sand Creek massacre, and how he was not seen as a criminal but was

The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 was a standout amongst the most severe occasions for Native Americans. Colonel Chivington and 700 troops butchered more than 500 Cheyenne and Arapahos who trusted they were under the security of the US Army. Most of the dead were ladies, youngsters, and elderly. (132) The United Methodist Church at long last recognized their part in the Massacre (Chivington was a Methodist clergyman), in 1996 and as the 150th commemoration of the Massacre approaches the congregation is concentrating on offering some kind of reparation to the Native individuals by making monetary commitments towards the tribes. (Blossom,

The Mormons were a religious group of people who were driven to what is now Utah. As a result of being driven from their homes in Missouri and Arkansas, they grew suspicious of non-members of their group, especially Native Americans and people from their original homeland. The massacres were one of the worst things they can do to non-members. They even disguised themselves as Native Americans to frame them in some of the massacres to remove them from Utah. The Native Americans, like the Shoshone, were probably mistreated because some religious groups see their religion as paganism. Many Indians died fighting to remain in their homeland and keep their heritage. Today, it is illegal to violate human rights including religion, but many Native

The Myall Creek Massacre was just one of many massacres that took place in the Liverpool Plains around a time when African Americans were thought to be inferior to those of their white counterparts. There were many other massacres that took place right across the colony as it

These groups were at Sand Creek, near Fort Lyon, Colorado. They believed that they were being protected by the United States Government. That is until they were attacked by Colonel J.M. Chivington and the Third Colorado Cavalry. Even after Black Kettle raised a white flag as well as an American Flag the Calvary still massacred some 270 Indians, most of them being women and children. When this spread across the plains the other Indians that heard about this held an uprising and retaliated. Custer was unaware of the number of Indians fighting under the command of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at Little Bighorn, and his forces were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed in what became known as Custer's Last Stand.

As previously mentioned, McMurtry does not really take a side in any of the massacres. In each account the reader is presented with historically accurate information of what went down, although he does sometimes slip a stray opinion in; however, this is to be expected in a book where the author is focusing on the cruelty of humans towards each other. McMurtry explains that it was not just a one-sided “battle” with Settlers attacking the Native Americans; both groups had their share of bouts against each other, and they both constantly tried to “preemptively strike.” It is made evident through some of the author’s comments that although a lot of the Native Americans were able to get along peacefully together for years and that the majority of tribes were peaceful (with the exception of a few, of course), the white man invading their “sacred land,” destroying everything in their path, and raping and killing their women and children was an infuriating blow to nearly every tribe on the land; I think this would set just about anyone off. In addition, none of the group is ready to appreciate the other one, or even consider a truce; instead, they focus more on what will only bring chaos among

On November 18th, 1978 what would become known as one of the most detrimental days for many families occurred. Formally known as The People’s Temple Agricultural Project or in short The People’s Temple, a substantial amount of citizens, most if not all of them being American were led by Jim Jones in a term coined by Jones himself, “Revolutionary Suicide”. Nine hundred and nine lives were taken on that devastating day (McGehee). Jones used powerful methods of persuasion to gather nearly one thousand members of the People’s Temple to migrate to Guyana in South America to form the settlement known as Jonestown. It is believed that Jim Jones chose the secluded location of Guyana for the purpose of containing the citizens so they could not flee their new formed society. Jones was for many of the members of Jonestown a father figure as most of the children on the settlement called Jones father. The message behind Jones’ society was acceptance, equality, and a sense of belonging in the world. The mass suicide that occurred on November 18th, 1978 will later be known as The Jonestown Massacre.