• During the Presidency of Jackson (1829-1837) and his successor Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) more than 60,000 Native Americans from at least 18 tribes were forced to move west of the Mississippi River where they were allocated new lands as part of an ethnic cleansing. (wikipedia.org)
  • The southern tribes were resettled mostly in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). (wikipedia.org)
  • The movement westward of the Native American tribes was characterized by a large number of deaths occasioned by the hardships of the journey. (wikipedia.org)
  • Native American tribes and the Whig Party opposed the bill, as did other groups within white American society (e.g. some Christian missionaries and clergy). (wikipedia.org)
  • Legal efforts to allow Indian tribes to remain on their land in the eastern U.S. failed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Throughout the 17th and 18th century during the Beaver and French and Indian Wars, the greatest number of and most powerful tribes tended to side with the French, though other tribes such as the Iroquois supported the English for various strategic reasons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite the adoption of white cultural values by many Indians and tribes, the United States government began a systematic effort to remove Native peoples from the Southeast. (wikipedia.org)
  • This great family includes a large number of North American tribes, extending, from near the mouth of the Mackenzie, south to the borders of Mexico. (academic-genealogy.com)
  • The tribes of this stock in the north extend westward nearly to the delta of the Yukon, and reach the coast at Cook's Inlet and the mouth of the Copper River. (academic-genealogy.com)
  • There are 500 federally recognized Tribes or Nations in the United States. (raysofexpression.com)
  • As the National Congress of American Indians points out, "There are 567 federally recognized Indian Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States. (ferris.edu)
  • As the title suggests, The Indian World focuses on the relations between the early republic and the American Indian tribes that occupied western lands during Washington's lifetime. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • The book first describes young Washington's early-and inept-management of conflicting interests among Indian tribes and European empires in North America. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Tribes like the Shawnee and Iroquois, who viewed American settlers with unease, were contemptuous of Americans interested in "grasping for Indian land" and fought almost continuously against the United States. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • To that end, he sought "to maintain the friendship of the tribes and preserve peace on the frontiers, protecting settlements from unruly individuals who could not be restrained by their tribes, on the one hand, and [to protect] the Indians' treaty rights, on the other. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Called "Manifest Destiny," it was based on the belief that God intended the United States to extend its holdings and its power across the wide continent of North America over the native Indian tribes and other nations from the east coast to the west. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • During American colonial times, many colonialists and particularly the English felt their civilization to be superior: they were Christians, and they believed their notions of private property to be a superior system of land tenure. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American Series (139 volumes) consists of Gage's correspondence with military officers and civil authorities in North America, including colonial governors, generals, commanders and subordinate officers, Indian superintendents and deputies, admirals of the British Navy in North America, engineers, army contractors, and various prominent civilians. (umich.edu)
  • Like other Europeans who attempted to govern the Indian nations that lived on or within their colonial borders, even the unusually astute Washington was "out of his depth in a complex world of rumors, wampum belts and tribal agendas. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Combined, the resolutions provided the basis for the proposed colonial government and effectively laid the foundation of what was to become the new nation's first written constitution, the British North America Act, 1867. (activehistory.ca)
  • In the 20th century, colonial Europe and America imposed the Westphalian nation-state as the official model for international law on a global level. (c4ss.org)
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
  • Many Europeans thought Native Americans to be a savage people. (wikipedia.org)
  • Institutionalized throughout the nation and exported to other countries, these images and others include dual portrayals of the good Indian (those who help Europeans) and the bad Indian (those who resist Europeans), nostalgic vanishing, brave warriors, romantic princesses, and countless ignoble images of brutality and degradation. (ferris.edu)
  • But Calloway's single-volume, carefully detailed account also conveys the conditions surrounding America's westward expansion, its first unsuccessful attempt at regime change, and the "hard lessons in war and diplomacy" learned by the early American republic during its westward march. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Liberals often portray the post- Obama era as an unmitigated diplomatic crisis, a time when time erratic foreign policy swings and "America first" rhetoric wrecked America's ability to influence world affairs. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • As the United States grew, it developed a mythology that helped provide Americans with a laudable national heritage while serving to rationalize the dispossession and conquest of indigenous peoples. (ferris.edu)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • With a few exceptions, the United States east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes was emptied of its Native American population. (wikipedia.org)
  • 10% of profits from the sale of my Native American Art will be donated to help Native Americans. (raysofexpression.com)
  • A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics. (sott.net)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • As the poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) wrote, "there is no such thing as Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • For continuity, in this thesis the term Native American will be used. (lu.se)
  • This is the most widespread ethnical and linguistic group in North America, comprising most of Alaska and the Canadian Dominion from the Eskimo domain to the Churchhill river north and south, and from the Rocky Mountains to Hudson Bay west and east, besides isolated enclaves in Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and North Mexico. (academic-genealogy.com)
  • Its proposed provisions were meant to address a number of contemporary problems and challenges, and designed to provide a fixed set of rules to govern the new nation. (activehistory.ca)
  • Why is it seen as necessary for fake "pilgrims" and fake "Indians" (portrayed by real children, many of whom are Indian) to sit down every year to a fake feast, acting out fake scenarios and reciting fake dialogue about friendship? (sott.net)
  • The standard history of Thanksgiving tells us that the "Pilgrims and Indians" feasted for three days, right? (sott.net)
  • Pilgrims perceived Indians in relation to the Devil and the only reason why they were invited to that feast was for the purpose of negotiating a treaty that would secure the lands for the Pilgrims. (sott.net)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • The Maps series (87 maps) includes maps and fort plans created for British military leaders in North America in the years before the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • The expansion of the republic and movement west on this continent, in part, people justified by the overriding philosophical underpinnings since the American Revolution. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • If one goes to their friendly local bookstore in North America, Europe or even in Hong Kong, not to speak of Australia, the chances are is that all one will find there would be tomes written by anti-Communist Chinese or Russian 'dissidents', people that have been living off Western grants, receiving countless awards so they can spend all their energy on smearing Communism, and glorifying anti-revolution. (countercurrents.org)
  • In this wickedly funny new comedy, a magically charged world is ignited by wise-cracking spirit animals brought to life by puppets, as estranged brothers of the Blackfeet Nation are pitted against one another in a fierce debate over the personal and economic issues Native people face today on their sovereign land. (theautry.org)
  • At the museums and on social media," Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indian, comments, "people ask at least once per day when we are going to take 'American Indian' out of our name. (ferris.edu)
  • It is also the time of the month when people talk about Native Americans. (sott.net)
  • Sad but true many people assume, "It is the rock on which our nation began. (sott.net)
  • The first fact of the history of American immigration is genocide: the displacement and destruction of the Native people of North America. (sustainlv.org)
  • Altogether, nearly one million people emigrated to North America during the second half of the century. (sustainlv.org)
  • The dominant culture of America descends from people who came to this continent adamantly set on remaining, not English-Americans, but English. (c4ss.org)
  • As for older first generation immigrants who have trouble learning English, they're no different from the Polish and Italian-speaking grandparents many people fondly remember in Chicago, or the Norsk and German speakers Sinclair Lewis portrayed in Minnesota. (c4ss.org)
  • Initially, depictions of Native males and females were used to symbolize the North American continent in the international iconography of the day, representations that proliferated. (ferris.edu)
  • Such representations obliterate or mask the realities of tribal nations struggling to maintain their populations, lands, resources, and sovereignty. (ferris.edu)
  • Indian conflicts, especially in the relatively fertile Utah Valley south of Salt Lake City, began soon after settlers arrived and continued throughout the Civil War and into the post-war years. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Some of my art features Native Americans, also known as American Indians, who have lived and thrived on the North American landscape for thousands of years -- long before there was a United States. (raysofexpression.com)
  • One fact that is always hidden is that the village was already named Patuxet and the Wampanoag Indians lived there for thousands of years. (sott.net)
  • Society - 42 min - ★ 8.44 For over 500 years, African Americans living in the. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Moroni having 35 years to travel to North America from Mesoamerica after the Nephite and Lamanite wars, would have been very familiar with storing precious religious items in a stone BOX . (bmaf.org)
  • They also had a tradition of vengeance killing not unlike the Indians along the frontier. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Calloway himself provides many examples of such "external annoyance" including Indian raids across the Ohio, Indian armies that could outmatch any European or American army on the continent, designs by the British and Spanish for control of the Creek Country, lingering British influence in Ohio and Florida, the possibility of war between Indian nations along the American frontier, etc. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • Elizabeth's decision to emigrate was an act of awe-inspiring courage and resolve even though she had more than ample reason to fear for her family's future if she remained in Norway and realized that the American frontier was her only option. (sustainlv.org)
  • This is an age where American diplomacy and international geopolitical maneuver is centered on what an older generation called the Far East-and Rice's record on Asia is execrable. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • To understand this dismal view of Rice, we must first pop some myths about American diplomacy in the age of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • American Indians are richly diverse, yet all too often their public portrayals-in books, advertisements, shop signs, terminology, and even children's toys and games-are greatly at odds with actual Native peoples and cultures. (ferris.edu)
  • Below are traditions and practices that the Indians of Mesoamerica had in common with Book of Mormon cultures that the North American Indians did not have . (bmaf.org)
  • The law, as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Native Americans residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi. (wikipedia.org)
  • WHILE NO BLUE AND GRAY BATTLES were fought within its changing territorial borders, the war significantly affected life in the territory and Utah's relationship with the nation. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Everyone within the borders of a nation-state was to be assimilated into the dominant ethnicity and adopt its language. (c4ss.org)
  • When 18-year-old Carrie moves in with her grandmother, Rosa, she is thrown into a world of memory and mystery that unearths her family's identity -- shining a light on a dark and bloody period in the history of the American Southwest. (theautry.org)
  • During the Revolutionary period, America was portrayed as a feathered Indian defying British tyranny in printed materials of the day. (ferris.edu)
  • He also advanced a policy of "benevolent amalgamation" which sought peaceful acquisition of Indian territory through purchase while drawing Indians "nearer to the civilized state" by encouraging their adoption of private property and agriculture. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • In June, it passed a law prohibiting the sharing of content portraying homosexuality or sex reassignment with anyone under 18. (globalnews.ca)
  • though it receives scant mention in Civil War histories and only a little more in volumes on the American West. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • New playwright Dillon Chitto (Mississippi Choctaw, Laguna, Isleta Pueblo) brings the pueblo to the American theatre in this hilarious new play about tradition in a fast-changing world. (theautry.org)
  • and "I is for Indian": World of Children. (ferris.edu)
  • olin G. Calloway's The Indian World of George Washington is a biography, but students of American political history will find in it even more to appreciate. (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
  • We offer these myths and facts to assist students, parents and teachers in thinking critically about this holiday, and deconstructing what we have been taught about the history of this continent and the world. (sott.net)
  • The US and European elites have stepped up their efforts at regime change in Latin America and the Caribbean so as to guarantee access to and control of the region's abundant natural resources, because Chinese and Russian influence is blocking their accustomed control of the majority world in Eurasia and Africa. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. (umich.edu)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and government correspondence of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763), commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America (1763-1775), and Governor of Massachusetts (1774-1775). (umich.edu)
  • The Warrants series (40 boxes) is made up of financial documents authorizing payment for the British military forces in North America. (umich.edu)
  • In the British North America Act, such rights were subsumed in the preamble's direction that the new dominion was to have "a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom. (activehistory.ca)
  • BOX On September 22, 1827, Joseph Smith went to a designated hill in Palmyra, New York, as he was instructed by the angel Moroni to remove a record on golden plates from a stone BOX, which contained writings of the inhabitants of this continent recording their history and theology. (bmaf.org)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • Yet, as the non-European population grows, so does the pressure on politicians like Kohl, Schröder, and Merkel to "make the best of it" by granting them citizenship, recognizing their culture as an "integral part" of the nation, and creating a multicultural dictatorship criminalizing all dissenters. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Like Venezuela previously, Nicaragua has been targeted by the US dominated Organization of American States using local US and European funded non-profit proxies inside Nicaragua and Western corporate dominated non-governmental organizations. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • Along the west coast of Africa, European nations traded for slaves, ivory, and gold. (ipl.org)
  • Africa was under full assault by the 1800s, as European nations competed with one another for control of the continent. (ipl.org)
  • From former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to Iraq and Sudan, to Ivory Coast, Libya and Syria, to Myanmar and Ukraine, Western governments have used non governmental human rights organizations and abuse of the United Nations system to attack countries resisting the demands of US and allied elites and the governments they control. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • Note: We have based our "fact" sections in large part on the research, both published and unpublished, that Abenaki scholar Margaret M. Bruchac developed in collaboration with the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation. (sott.net)
  • Coupled with the rise of nationalism during the Napoleonic Wars, this norm was extended to include the requirement that every nation-state, ideally, have a single official ethnic identity. (c4ss.org)
  • The English series and the American series comprise the bulk of the collection. (umich.edu)
  • The irony gets pretty thick if you remember - unlike Jindal - that English is the native language not of America, but of England. (c4ss.org)
  • And that language, in the most extreme forms, was the official dialect (BBC Standard or American Network Standard English, Standard High German, Ile-de-France French, Standard Castilian, etc. (c4ss.org)
  • And, psst - I hear there are some American occupation troops, and corporate personnel extracting other countries' resources, who don't learn the local languages either! (c4ss.org)
  • It negotiated the Iran Nuclear Agreement not with the consent of local stakeholders … but with Germany and the United Nations Security Council. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • In the 1840s, immigrants did a reverse journey on a promotional tour sponsored by U.S. financial interests to spread "America fever" and this prompted more departures. (sustainlv.org)
  • The Union Pacific Railroad, an Indian boarding school, and Madame Overdone's Stewed Prunes Saloon collide in Randy Reinholz's bawdy and irreverent Off the Rails, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure set in Buffalo Bill's Wild West! (theautry.org)
  • Of those, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, Comanche, Sioux, and Blackfeet were some of the major Indian nations of the Old West in the 19th Century who lived in the Great Plains of North America, a vast area stretching from the Mississippi River to the west of the continent. (raysofexpression.com)
  • Shifts in the international balance of power will inevitably bring about changes in the principal threats to the security of any given nation. (usni.org)
  • The model of international law Europe adopted with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 assumed as a norm that every individual must be the subject of a single, unitary, sovereign nation-state. (c4ss.org)
  • The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are all guilty of extreme bad faith, non-compliance with basic norms and adherence to long discredited theoretical nostrums. (wrongkindofgreen.org)
  • The papers include incoming correspondence and retained copies of letters written by Gage, together with a large quantity of documents related to military administration and manuscript maps of North America. (umich.edu)
  • The Letter Books, Account Books, and Additional Material series (17 items) contains copy books of communications with military outposts in North America and accounts for military expenses. (umich.edu)
  • The bulk of these items were created during Gage's tenure as military governor of Montréal, commander-in-chief of North America, and governor of Massachusetts. (umich.edu)
  • Basically, this concept is a description of how, when, and where the military service expects to Protect the nation against some threat to its security. (usni.org)
  • Utah and the American Civil War presents a wealth of primary sources pertaining to the territory's participation in the Civil War-material that until now has mostly been scattered, incomplete, or difficult to locate. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Readers will find accounts of an 1861 attempt to court-martial a Virginia-born commander for treason, battle reports from the January 1863 Bear River Massacre, documents from the army's high command authorizing Governor James Doty to enlist additional Utah troops in October 1864, and evidence of Colonel Patrick Edward Connor's personal biases against Native Americans and Mormons. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The Indian Queen, an emblematic figure in use by the end of the sixteenth century, symbolized the Western Hemisphere. (ferris.edu)
  • Aside from First Nations languages, New York had a Dutch-speaking population in the Hudson valley well into the 19th century. (c4ss.org)
  • The New Adventures of Super Indian, created and written by Arigon Starr based on her popular graphic novels, are three audio episodes that highlight the comic exploits of Super Indian and the residents of the fictional Leaning Oak Reservation. (theautry.org)
  • COVID is a dictator's dream opportunity," said Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American human rights lawyer who has been indicted on charges including treason in the ostensibly democratic southeast Asian nation, where Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power for more than three decades. (globalnews.ca)
  • The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the hunting of black skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. (sustainlv.org)
  • In the Thanksgiving story, are the "Indians" even acknowledged by a tribe? (sott.net)
  • Christian nations might with equal justice be always represented with cannon and ball, swords and pistols. (ferris.edu)