The Land is Ours

County Almanac”. Contained within the book is one of his writings, “The Land Ethic”, an influential writing that was designed to inform and inspire others to do their part in conserving the earths remaining wilderness. He begins by explaining the different kinds of ethics that are known, such as ecological and philosophical. However, he is concerned that there is not a form of ethics that deals with the land and the way it should be treated. He states,

have the choice to fight or flee. Spaniards have killed thousands of our people, causing us to be powerless and hesitant. The spaniards have been taking our crops, women, and animals. We shall rebel against them and not stop fighting until we gain the right to not be disturbed ever again. It initiated when a man named Martin Alfonso, the spanish explorer that broke our peace treaty with Columbus. He has killed one of our women, because he wanted appreciation and respect. After killing her,

August and September: We started our voyage on August 19, 1492. During the 2 months, one of our ships, The Pinta, and they had to stay back and work on it. We expected to find land in 20 days, but it is currently double what we expected and we still haven’t found land. We came close though. We thought some clouds were but as we got closer it turned out it wasn’t land. We have been going pretty far, though, we are making good time, though, we are traveling 70-100 miles a day. We are all getting

towards the Indians. In the Transcript of the Proclamation of 1763, it states, ” And We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any Lands within the Countries above described, or upon any other Lands, which, not having been ceded to, or purchased by Us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements.”(King George III, 1763) If I was a colonist and I read this

According to Wikipedia a land ethic is a philosophy that seeks to guide the actions when humans use or make changes to the land. Contrary to the three views of corporate responsibility, the philosopher Norman Bowie believes that businesses have no special obligation to the environment except those defined by the law. And dolphins should be considered to be non-human persons as they are highly intelligent, almost identical to humans. Aldo Leopold tries to explain how we are ethically and morally

Fellow Cherokee people: There is a bad seed among us that must be expelled before spreading it’s disease to more members of our honorable tribe. Jon Ross and his cronies are spreading lies and blinding our people from seeing the truth. Chief John Ross says that he is doing what is best for the people when in reality he is doing the best for himself. Ross denied the people the right to vote in elections by ceasing their existence despite numerous attempts by the council to reinstate them. Ross

were kicked out of your own land? you wouldn’t like it right. Well that is what happened to the Native Americans when they got kicked out of their land by U.S government on may 28th 1830. I am on the side of giving them their land back to the Native Tribes if they want to fix the racial discrimination. An investor visited their land where they only had been living on 7,000 a year. To American Indians this land we have stolen from them means more and it is not just land to them. The Native Americans

Jacket. I am part of the Seneca nation, of the Haudenosaunee, and I am a diplomat for our people, with the number of white settlers moving west, I helped often by settling disputes between you and us, keeping us living side by side, in peace. I have met with your General Washington, and he has presented me with this medal, as a sign of peace between your people, and mine. Today I am here to tell you that peace between our nations is a falsehood. I am here to talk about unjust rights and discrimination

more land in the country. The best way to gain more land was to take the land of the Cherokee Indians. The question was, what would the best path be for the Cherokee, to stay or to leave? This would decide the fate of the Cherokee. Most people believe that the Cherokee should just leave and avoid conflict. This would also mean relocation and their land would be given to the Americans. For this reason, my answer to the historical question is that the Cherokee deserve to stay and keep their land. The

on their father’s land. The government was wrong to move the Cherokee; it was illegal. The Cherokee should have stayed and defended their own land. The land was the Cherokee's, to begin with before the whites came to America. The United States had no right to force the Cherokee to move. In the Cherokee letter, they stated about the land that, "It is our father's gift. It is the land of our origin and the land of our intellectual birth." When the whites came to America the land already belonged to