... told in just under 500 pages can be summed up by one statement from Standing Bear of the Poncas, "When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us- Recommendation Many teens do not want to think of their forefathers as vicious killers and torturers. They ... name to Ely Parker because Indian names weren't taken seriously. He met Ulysses S. Grant and tried to join the Union but was rejected. He was then invited to the White House to sign the Treaty of 1868, which would allow them to move back to Po...

• Word Count: 1920
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... Tillamook lived in this culture area. The Northwest Culture depended on the forests for their shelter. The houses were built with frames of large trees. In the back of the house were wooden racks that dried fish, wooden sheds for smoking fish, and storage sheds. Outside of each home was a totem pole. The totem pole of a family might have animals, birds ... the history of the family. You could tell a family's importance by looking at their totem pole. Another way a family showed its importance was to have a potlatch. The inside of the house also had carved posts if the family was an impo...

• Word Count: 2409
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... trade with the Native Americans. They exchanged guns, iron tools, whiskey and beads on beaver and other animals' pelts. Most often, however, the Europeans came with the intention to build a house, they wanted to farm. At first, the Native Americans were happy to share the ground with the Europeans. Europeans thought that the majority of new lands were free. Native Americans ... and colonists during American Revolution (Edsite, 2015). However, due to hatred towards Native Americans, that resulted from uexpected attacks of the Cherokees, White Eyes was killed in Ohio, followed by slaughte...

• Word Count: 1546
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the colonists" ships in Manhattan as the Indians saw it, thinking it was the "Supreme Being" coming to pay them a visit. " [The Indians] concluded it to be a large canoe or house, in which the great Mannitto himself was, and that he probably was coming to visit them. By this time the chiefs of the different tribes were assembled on York Island ... English sacked the Confederacy. Powhatan's son led the tribe against them in a counter attack, which destroyed a third of the population of Jamestown. This news reached Europe, which resulted in a wholesale slaughter of the Indians. By 1669, f...

• Word Count: 1610
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate