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Episodes tagged "Native-Americans": 31 through 40 of 82

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  1. Killing a god
    date January 1, 1850 to January 1, 1880map CEDAR, Missouritags Native-Americans

    "Let them kill skin and sell until the buffalo are exterminated. Then your prairies can be covered with speckled cattle and the festive cowboy." General Phil Sheridan of the United States military made that statement when referring to the on-going conflict with plains Indians in the mid to late 1800's. His views on the issue of Buffalo hunting were not at all uncommon at the time and in fact, were...

  2. Native Americans in Louisiana
    date February 9, 1834map IBERVILLE, Louisianatags Native-Americans

    Most Americans today talk about Native Americans being the inhabitants that the Europeans pushed out of their land to take the United States for themselves. They rarely remember that they did not disappear into the background once the nation was formed. Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis did not turn a blind eye to the native inhabitants of the country. On her trip to her visit her daughter on Butler Plantation...

  3. No Wampum for this land
    date December 3, 1832 to December 30, 1832map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Government, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    December of 1832 saw another sale of lands that were the rightful property of Cherokee and Creek Indians in Georgia. The Native Americans of Georgia were forced from their homes and lands because the state government saw the land as being underused and mismanaged by the Indian tribes. This act of selling Indian lands was known as the Georgia Land Lottery and in 1832 it again sold off native lands...

  4. The End of the Civil War in Indian Territory
    date 1864 to 1865map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Native-Americans, Politics, War

    The war in the West went on long after Lee surrendered, and not just because it took a little while for news to travel. The Confederates appeared utterly defeated, and yet some still were willing to fight. But the South was not the only problem for the North. Corruption was rampant in Forts Smith and Gibson (Indian Territory, now Oklahoma); safe havens for both southern and northern refugees, from...

  5. My God trumps your Great Spirit
    date January 1, 1869 to January 1, 1877map BALTIMORE CITY, Marylandtags Church/Religious-Activity, Native-Americans

    Pagan religion and practice has always been at odds with Christianity. In the mid 19th century the two sects of the Baptist Church sought to educate the many tribes of the Cherokee Indians. The records for the interactions between the two peoples are at best biased, bureaucratic, opinion, and afford little to no information on how the Cherokee really felt towards their missionaries. The first...

  6. Distinguished Savages
    date 1834map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Native-Americans

    We all know the stereotype: the screaming, bloodthirsty savage with scalp in hand, terrorizing the civilized world and using the land without virtue. Yet there are some people who differ, like Benjamin B. Thatcher. In his Indian Biography, Thatcher argued that the Native American was not resigned to such a savage state, but that there existed among them great "patriots, orators, warriors, and statesmen"...

  7. Judge Clayton Removed from Office
    date December 6, 1831map GWINNETT, Georgiatags Law, Native-Americans, Politics

    Augustin Smith Clayton was a lawyer, congressman, and judge for the state of Georgia. Most of his decisions as a judge in Georgia favored state over federal laws. In 1831, however, Clayton declared unconstitutional a Georgia law that prohibited Indians from digging gold on their own land. After this decision he was not reelected for another term. Clayton was curious about his loss at reelection and...

  8. Missionaries and the Choctaws
    date 1831map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Native-Americans

    Mr. Cushman and his fellow missionaries broke ground in the "unbroken wilderness" of Choctaw Nation on October 15, 1827 and on July 31, 1831 he published a letter about his experiences in The Missionary Herald titled, Effects of the Gospel on the People. Upon his arrival in 1827, Cushman found the members of the Choctaw tribe to be entirely heathen and uncivilized in both appearance and practice. He...

  9. Sam Houston: Epic Figure
    date February 21, 1846 to March 4, 1859map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Arts/Leisure, Government, Law, Native-Americans, Politics, War

    President of Texas, General, or perhaps Senator are the first words to come to mind when discussing Sam Houston. To Mrs. Virginia Clay, wife of Senator Clement Clay of Alabama, the fifty-five year old Houston was a "Senatorial Hercules" and a "roughish old hero". In her book, A Belle of the 50's, Mrs. Clay explains Houston's whittling habit saying that "a seemingly inexhaustible supply of soft wood...

  10. A Bitter Winter
    date November 4, 1846 to January, 1847map TERRITORY, Territorytags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Women

    The winter of 1846 was physically, emotionally and mentally draining for twenty year-old Mary Ann Graves, a member of the group of emigrants now infamously known as the Donner Party. As one of the survivors of this horrible episode in history, she wrote a letter to Levi Fosdick on May 22 of the following spring recounting her experiences. Her concluding remark was "I have told the bad news, and bad...

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