The Land is Ours

was one of the biggest debates in history after the Civil War. The plan was meant to help American Indians, but it had many flaws and downfalls that it hurt them more than it helped. The act, proposed by Senator Henry Dawes in 1887, granted plots of land of different sizes, depending on family rank and age, to Native Americans. It also made it possible for any Native American born in the United States a path to citizenship. It stated that all the Native Americans had to do was adopt an American way

book he discusses and creates this idea of what a land ethic should be. “The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.”(239) Land ethics is a simple concept with a large amount of complexity because it is arduous to incorporate every community member's thoughts and beliefs on how to steward the land. In class we used two periods to create a list of 10 land ethic commandments. Which is only 60 students compared

move from their lands and relocate to the west of the Mississippi river ( which is modern day Oklahoma) The indians that migrated faced many adversities along the way such as: hunger,cholera, cold, starvation and disease during that forced march to Oklahoma. Due to this removal 4,000 out of 15,000 cherokees died on this lengthy march. The cherokees should have been permitted to stay because : it was part of their identity/ culture , they had signed treaties to maintain their land, and they were willing

Thomas Jefferson and the United States government should purchase the Louisiana Territory and the accompanying land on the grounds that it will double our nation's size. Does doubling the size of our new and growing nation at a fair price seem smart to you? It does to me. The United States would acquire 820,000 square miles of land in this purchase, nearly doubling the nations land mass. With 820,000 square miles more to work with America will have a huge amount of space to expand into. That

Essay Question: Why did forced separation from the land have such a devastating impact on Australian Aboriginal culture? For an estimated sixty thousand years Indigenous people lived, surviving off the land, in what is now known as Australia. On January 26th 1788 the first British to settle Australia arrived at the location that is presently called Port Jackson near Sydney. This arrival marked the beginning of a new era in Aboriginal history that saw over the next two hundred years

discriminations that led people to become emotional about the issue. Likewise, the evolution of land ethics cannot occur when people feel nothing about nature. As Leopold said, “No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.” (Leopold, 283) Without such affection, loyalties, and emotion towards land ethics, I think that our community will not be ready for advancement in ecological

The United States has always been known as the home of the brave and land of the free. We tend to think our country is dominant, advanced, and stable; we also like to overshadow our problems with our glorious recognition as almost the entire world has seen our patriotism in some sense. “Every year one American produces over 3,285 pounds of hazardous waste”; the total population in the United States is around 300,000,000. In other words, if we calculate the number of Americans living in the United

Relationship with the Land Polar, conflicting, opposite, divergent, contradictory: all words to describe how the American Indians view their relationship with the land versus the worldview of the Western culture in the United States. Land as a worldview defined by American Indians is the Earth respected and shared by everyone for the benefit of themselves while Western culture defines it as territory used for economic expansion. When the Europeans discovered North America, they saw it as an opportunity

How does one define oneself? Is it through land, oral tradition, or language? If we were to ask Simon Ortiz, one of the leading Native American writers, he would answer, to an extent, all of the above. In agreement to Ortiz, Kieu also identify herself through these three factors. “They are all connected in one way or another,” she says. Although these two authors have a completely different background, one being a Native American while the other is a Chinese-Vietnamese-American, they share the same

Personifying the Land “We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in”- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (251) Aldo Leopold is on the forefather of modern environmentalism. His book, A Sand County Almanac, is based on the notion of viewing land as a community and as a commodity. In the chapter “The Land Ethic”, Leopold invokes a rethinking of our relationships to our world and is based on the principle that ethics are “a process