Chapter 18 SummaryNatalie Rosewag1/5/15Mod 1BChapter 18 Summary The surviving tribes adapted to changing conditions. Plains Indians learned to ride horses and use guns. Treaties with the federal government were often ignored by states. Reservations intended that Indians learn English, convert to Christianity, and start farming. Slaughter of buffalo encouraged in order to hopefully assimilate Indians, railways also killed buffalos. In Colorado, the governor terminated all treaties and ordered raids into Indian Territory. The Sioux fought the US Army to a stalement and had the Great Sioux Reservation created for them (although this did not mean peace). The discovery of gold forced the government to try to reclaim the land.
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The American Indian Movement started as a collective movement, a move that took the US out of the conflict with the Indians, but with a new twist. It was about preserving a sacred site, making them look like their predecessors, and using it to improve our economic and environmental performance. The first three chapters describe how this journey started. 1.1 Native Americans took advantage of the new opportunity in order to take their culture and traditions into their own hands.
· 1.2 The US took advantage of a long-standing threat to the US land rights that were denied Native Americans during their independence by the federal government.
· The US is now one of the largest and wealthiest oil and gas companies in the world.
· Native Peoples, like Native Americans, have been involved in government since the beginning of the last century.
When you look at what the Native American Movement stood for, you will see something very interesting. The people said it wasn’t about oil or gas, it was not just about what they wanted for their land. If it hadn’t been for the federal government, these things would have gotten very different. Native Americans were not just a bunch of idiots who never thought it was possible. They wanted everything to be right. They didn’t understand that we had a choice about our land. Native Americans have been here before and will be in court the rest of our lives for their rightful rights.
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It was a hard road to go down, but we found it when we moved to the Colorado Rockies. A couple of decades earlier you lost a lot of things on our land. There was only one trail to access, a bridge. We had this beautiful rock in our valley for a bit. It was hard to get on the freeway, but because of this trail it wasn’t so bad.
· We lost 2.0% of our lands to this same problem.
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Unfortunately, this decision to move our land from Colorado Rockies to Utah is now a reality. Our lands have no federal protection. The United States Department of Justice, though they are responsible for protecting our treaty rights, is not involved on our government lands of American Indian tribes.
You could say that all these actions represent a shift from the original intent of the tribes. In the original intent of the Tribe, this was the only thing they would do. We did not want something so bad and destructive to our sacred land that no one could survive. The people did not listen to them. The tribe leaders did not listen to them. Their history and tradition does not need to be tied to any particular
* * *PERSONAL QUOTES:“I like to think the US is the king. He’s one giant who can talk and act like a monarch, a king of good and evil and a king of people who trust and accept us. And I can tell you that I know no better, because I live by the rule of my men and by the rule of my tribe. But once in awhile one of the biggest problems we face, I think, is in the government. No one, or maybe even a tiny few, is sure who will govern us and what that will mean when we are at war, when we are going to be at war, when we are going to be at war.So the government has to ask itself a lot more questions about who is actually on the outside and who is actually on the inside of the government. What are you looking for, that one person or that group, that are going to be in charge of all this, and really want to see the results? What is your goal, you know, at the root with a lot of Americans who are looking for change–not just a change of government but a change of way of life and a change in how the government works? Doesn’t the government care because our government can put us out of business? Doesn’t the government care because our government cannot do anything? Doesn’t the government care what they put us through because they want us to lose in this competition, what they want us to suffer in this fight? Doesn’t the government respect people’s opinion because we put it in our heads? Doesn’t the government give a shit about what we know, but if we think about it that way we have no right to have that government do something wrong. But I think if there is this new government that is going to take power, and be like everybody else there, we have a lot of great questions to ask ourselves, because we are so sure that our government is going to continue to fail our people, at what cost. If there is a little more respect for what the government did and the way it ran, we will really start to see a different and less polarized American people. I have not been involved in many political campaigns since I was a kid growing up in the South, and I don’t think I have ever been involved with many political campaigns after all. I don’t think I have ever seen people question the government much more as an alternative to anything except to keep their heads down because they can still get to the president and see at what cost–at most–is not that that they would disagree with him, but to have people who think their way of life is wrong, at worst, because their way of life is just much more important than what the government tells them.My personal life
* * *PERSONAL QUOTES:“I like to think the US is the king. He’s one giant who can talk and act like a monarch, a king of good and evil and a king of people who trust and accept us. And I can tell you that I know no better, because I live by the rule of my men and by the rule of my tribe. But once in awhile one of the biggest problems we face, I think, is in the government. No one, or maybe even a tiny few, is sure who will govern us and what that will mean when we are at war, when we are going to be at war, when we are going to be at war.So the government has to ask itself a lot more questions about who is actually on the outside and who is actually on the inside of the government. What are you looking for, that one person or that group, that are going to be in charge of all this, and really want to see the results? What is your goal, you know, at the root with a lot of Americans who are looking for change–not just a change of government but a change of way of life and a change in how the government works? Doesn’t the government care because our government can put us out of business? Doesn’t the government care because our government cannot do anything? Doesn’t the government care what they put us through because they want us to lose in this competition, what they want us to suffer in this fight? Doesn’t the government respect people’s opinion because we put it in our heads? Doesn’t the government give a shit about what we know, but if we think about it that way we have no right to have that government do something wrong. But I think if there is this new government that is going to take power, and be like everybody else there, we have a lot of great questions to ask ourselves, because we are so sure that our government is going to continue to fail our people, at what cost. If there is a little more respect for what the government did and the way it ran, we will really start to see a different and less polarized American people. I have not been involved in many political campaigns since I was a kid growing up in the South, and I don’t think I have ever been involved with many political campaigns after all. I don’t think I have ever seen people question the government much more as an alternative to anything except to keep their heads down because they can still get to the president and see at what cost–at most–is not that that they would disagree with him, but to have people who think their way of life is wrong, at worst, because their way of life is just much more important than what the government tells them.My personal life
* * *PERSONAL QUOTES:“I like to think the US is the king. He’s one giant who can talk and act like a monarch, a king of good and evil and a king of people who trust and accept us. And I can tell you that I know no better, because I live by the rule of my men and by the rule of my tribe. But once in awhile one of the biggest problems we face, I think, is in the government. No one, or maybe even a tiny few, is sure who will govern us and what that will mean when we are at war, when we are going to be at war, when we are going to be at war.So the government has to ask itself a lot more questions about who is actually on the outside and who is actually on the inside of the government. What are you looking for, that one person or that group, that are going to be in charge of all this, and really want to see the results? What is your goal, you know, at the root with a lot of Americans who are looking for change–not just a change of government but a change of way of life and a change in how the government works? Doesn’t the government care because our government can put us out of business? Doesn’t the government care because our government cannot do anything? Doesn’t the government care what they put us through because they want us to lose in this competition, what they want us to suffer in this fight? Doesn’t the government respect people’s opinion because we put it in our heads? Doesn’t the government give a shit about what we know, but if we think about it that way we have no right to have that government do something wrong. But I think if there is this new government that is going to take power, and be like everybody else there, we have a lot of great questions to ask ourselves, because we are so sure that our government is going to continue to fail our people, at what cost. If there is a little more respect for what the government did and the way it ran, we will really start to see a different and less polarized American people. I have not been involved in many political campaigns since I was a kid growing up in the South, and I don’t think I have ever been involved with many political campaigns after all. I don’t think I have ever seen people question the government much more as an alternative to anything except to keep their heads down because they can still get to the president and see at what cost–at most–is not that that they would disagree with him, but to have people who think their way of life is wrong, at worst, because their way of life is just much more important than what the government tells them.My personal life
Western labor movements began in these mining camps as a response to dangerous working conditions and soon became powerful forces. Western expansion fostered the growth of new unstable commercial cities. The Mormons had fled New York and eventually formed an independent state in Utah. The federal government declared the Mormons rebels and sent in the army. The Edmunds Act disfranchised people who believed in polygamy. Most Mexicans did work outside the commercial economy working for subsistence. With railroad and the arrival of big business they became the first migrant workers. Mexicans were able to preserve their culture and religion.