Nez Perce War

Even as a young boy in the Virginia frontier, exploration and the pursuit of knowledge captivated the imagination of Thomas Jefferson. His father, an experienced cartographer and explorer, is often cited as the inspiration for Jefferson’s fixation on the West. As he grew older, Jefferson realized that the American West was not an empty wilderness, but a land crowded by conflicting nations and claims of sovereignty that only a few fur traders had experienced. Once Jefferson acquired the Louisiana

American power. In 1876, after a treaty dispute, President Ulysses S. Grant issued an ultimatum stating that all Native Americans had to be on the Great Sioux Reservation by January 31st. When this ultimatum was not met, the United States declared war.

Jalen Booth Murphy APUSH 3/3/15 Native American Essay Since the very first contact, the Native Americans have been treated as subordinates, being mistreated, shamed, embarrassed, and oppressed by white settlers. After the Revolutionary War in the late 1700’s, matters only got worse for the Native Americans. Population was skyrocketing due to a great deal of immigration of white settlers in the early to mid 1800’s, and there wasn’t enough space for everyone. With this came expansion, and to reach

Idaho has a fascinating history. From the state's Native American history and settlers to World War II, and the states 1900’s disaster, Idaho has an exciting past. Plus Idaho has the best potatoes! In August 1805, four European white men on horses arrived in what’s now the Idaho-Montana border. The men were Captain Meriwether Lewis, John Shields, George Drouillard, and Hugh Mc’Nell. All these people belonged to a group of 59 explorers called the Corps of Discovery. In what is now South Dakota a

Intergenerational trauma, is the theory that large historical traumas can be experienced by descendants generations later. (Walkerdine, Olsvold, & Rudberg, 2013). The position that clinicians take is that traumatic historical events associated with events such as war, slavery, colonization, and poverty are experienced and transmitted between family members and crosses generations. Some ethnical groups that have historical trauma response in the United States are: Jewish Holocaust survivors, African Americans, Japanese

former owner.” Foner P 483 “ The Civil War was an important time in the US history as well as the Reconstruction. The Civil War and Reconstruction were disappointing to a large part of the US population, especially slave, whose liberation was one of the major reasons for the Civil War. The Reconstruction gave slaves the basic rights and liberties but not all the freedom that the African Americans desired in their terms as being free. Even though, the Civil War and Reconstruction began the further

Chief Joseph (known as the thunder traveling over mountains) was a great exemplary leader. The Indians were under the impression that they were the only people on the land until some winters ago. When they encountered the two white men, Lewis and Clark (who were on the run from Canadian settlers), The Indians were a bit skeptical of them but Lewis and Clark were upfront and honest with the Indians. Lewis and Clark gave them and the Indians, in return, gave them a meal, tobacco and guns. The Indians

today without Thomas Jefferson and the nine other Americans who were bold and passionated for land culminated in the Westward Expansion. A reason one’s shouldn't agree, is because the land was naturally owned by the Indians and taken over through a war. You could agree with Morgan in such as” the belief they were justified in killing Indians and taking their land.” stated in the Lions of the West. In “Thomas Jefferson’s America, 1801” by Stephen Ambrose when Jefferson took offices he became

able to dominate their Nez Perce and Shoshone rivals. Eight Blackfeet warriors encountered Meriwether Lewis and a party of the Corps of Discovery in July 1806. After their initial fears of the armed strangers had subsided, the Indians decided to camp with the Americans. During this first day and night, Lewis explained the United States’ intent to bring about a comprehensive peace between all the Indian tribes of the west. He went on to add that the Shoshones and Nez Perces – mortal enemies of the

Indians want is peace and the American are trying to find every little thing that they don’t like about the Indians, and pick a fight about it. It also states, “They have given us no rest,” because the Americans would take from them try to rule Nez Perce country. It was the Indians land and they could have done whatever they wanted to do to the Americans but they chose not to, because all they wanted was peace and the Americans to become