Yir Yoront Research Paper

The US Government treated the Dakota unfairly and poorly. The indian agents tricked the Dakota into signing the treaties, that stated that they will get money and goods. The Dakota were threatened to sign the treaties. The money from the Dakota were given to the US Government, thinking that they’ll get money back. The US Government never did, leaving the Indians poor and upset. After being tricked, the Dakota were put into reservations. Dakota people were living in prison like “homes” where they were shortened on their needs. Living in reservations, the Dakota were starving to death, although the Indian agents didn’t care. The Dakota were forced to leave their culture behind and become like white settlers.

government, thought Westward Expansion would positively impact Native Americans. President Andrew Jackson felt that Indian Removal would protect the Native Americans and give them more freedom. He also thought that, eventually, the influence of European Americans would guide them to become a more “interesting, civilized, and Christian community” (Doc 9). Additionally, government believed that boarding schools would be very beneficial for children, teaching them valuable skills, and helping them become more civilized “ladies and gentlemen” (Doc 8). However, these people were blinded to the impact it had on the lives of Native American by their own desire for land and power. The mass slaughter of buffalo robbed the Native Americans of their most valuable resource and the source of all their daily necessities. Forced assimilation killed Native American culture and identity, and uprooted their lifestyles. By taking away and selling Native Americans’ land, the U.S. government was constantly driving Native Americans of their homes, onto undeveloped, cramped land, making it nearly impossible for them to sustain themselves and their way of life. How is someone positively affected by having their means of survival, identity, and home taken

Native Americans were primarily affected by westward expansion in the sense that it was the reason they not only lost their land, but they lost their culture and rights. The words of Santana, Chief of the Kiowas, are a perfect description for this, “These soldiers cut down my timber; they kill my buffalo...”.

America’s westward expansion really affected the lives of the Native Americans in several ways. Since Americans were wanting land for farming, ranching, and mining, it took away the Native Americans land for hunting and gathering. In general, this dramatically changed the face of American history.

They used what is known as a diffused substinance pattern. By this we mean that by using resources available to them lightly as opposed to intensely using the same resources, they were conserving for the future. These tribes would spiritualize nature. In this culture everything was significant. They held reverence for the environment and a strong kinship with nature. Often these people observed respectful guidelines to avoid spiritual retaliation. For instance, the bones of the beaver would be returned to the river where it had been trapped. This was believed to keep the beavers there plentiful.

There are three key patterns seen in most Native American religions they are the human relationship with nature, framing of time and space and respect for gods/ancestors. The human relationship with nature known as animism, everything is seen as part of the same reality and every object has a spirt, is a practice where there is little distinction between humans and animals. Time and space is sacred, cyclical,

Native Americans thrived from nature and their way of life depended on the land of the grassy Great Plains. Their life changed due to horses, and then afterward guns, being introduced to them by the Spanish; which made it easier for them to move and hunt. As settlers moved in, the Native nations were treated poorly and had little to no ability to stand up for what they believed in and how they wanted to live with all the restrictions laid upon them. The federal government created policies, such as The Concentration Policy, “relocation”, and The Dawes Severalty Act, as settlers began moving west which eventually lead to many warfares’s.

Westward expansion effected the Native Americans because the Indians lived in these areas. First, the pioneers started to kill the bison, the Indian’s main food source, which lessened the amount of bison in the area causing hunger in Native American tribes ("Buffalo Hunters in the Old West." Buffalo Hunters in the Old West, 2015). Next, they moved into the Native’s lands to build houses and farms. Searching for gold was another problem, because the gold miners would search in their sacred hills, disturbing peace between the two. ("America Indians and Western Expansion,”

Native American in the Central and Southwestern societies fundamentally is based on the idea of collectivism. They relied on foraging and pre-agriculture farming. The political structure and population does not grow into complicate or large quantity. Due to their communities are formed by several small bands, the relationship between tribal members are real close. Most of tribal members are relatives, and everyone knows each other. In the other hand, the hardship of living in wild

European settlements in the new world had a number of impacts on Cherokee Native Americans. It led to them dying or being pushed onto reservations.

In an effort to build many miles of track, surveyors intruded on tribal life, further destroying the influence and power of Native Americans (Doc 2). Another way by which settlers ruined Native American life was through the destruction of the herds of buffalo. Railroad construction destroyed grazing lands for many herds and led to massive buffalo slaughter (Doc 3). Unlike Native Americans who killed buffalo to use the entire carcass, settlers would kill them to hide them from the Native Americans, therefore wasting an important natural resource. Labor also suffered several setbacks because of the railroads.

Five specific groups were especially affected by industrialization: Native Americans, African Americans, children, farmers, and immigrants. Due to federal and state policies, Native Americans were removed from their traditional land into reservations, which were often smaller, more undesirable land. The Dawes Act of 1887, which broke up reservation lands, was ultimately detrimental to Native Americans. Settlers and federal troops pushed the remaining free tribes off their homelands in the Great Plains, and killed most of the buffalo population on which Native Americans relied for survival (The USA online, n.d.).

Diamond notes the Maori and the Moriori, both descendents of the polynesian people. Having said that, both societies had differed immensely. Comparing the two, “The Moriori were a small, isolated population...with only the simplest technology and weapons, entirely inexperienced at war, and lacking strong leadership or organization. The Maori invaders... came from a dense population...engaged in ferocious wars, equipped with more-advanced technology...operating under strong leadership.”( Diamond 54) As they had collided, it made sense that the Mori had murdered all the Moriori, but due to what? Diamond views geography as the main cause for their differences and the outcome of both societies. This is important as we could apply this to be the solution to our question. Seeing as the geography of ( continue this part later). However, we could also refer back to when Francisco Pizarro and his men had captured the incas then killed their king, Atahuallpa. This had been one of the largest collisions ever to be recorded by eyewitness accounts, slaughtering millions of incas. As Diamond describes it on page 80 “ Immediate reasons for Pizarro's success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and

Every Tuesday at 3:45 teens, ages 11 to 18, go to Albany County Public Library for a program called YAK. YAK was first funded by a frozen yogurt company that wanted teens to have a place they can be themselves without fear of being teased. The librarians decided to call the program YAK in thanks of the funding that they had received. Once a month the teens get to plan out what they want to do that month. Some of the things that get chosen are improv, creative writing, trivia, game day, arts and crafts, scavenger hunts, murder mysteries and the occasional game of Quidditch at the park. The librarians give teens ideas of things that they can do at YAK and outside of YAK. The librarians have helped the teens put together a haunted house

Rare Earth Lanthanides are the second bottommost family of elements on the periodic table. They number 57 through 71. “Rare Earth” is actually a misnomer, because all of these elements can be found in nature except one, which we’ll talk about later. There are only 15 Rare Earth Lanthanides, but they can be found in most metals.