Introduction: Thesis: Winona LaDuke is a Native American woman activist and environmentalist who is known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as a sustainable living. Body: Biography: Winona LaDuke grew up in Los Angeles, California. She is a member of the Anishinaabe band of White Earth Indian Reservation, which is located in Northern Minnesota. She began making a political name for herself as an activist at a young age. She was 18 when she addressed the United Nations on Indian Issues. Topic one: Food comes from our relatives, good food is not accessible in the stores, and seeds are the hope for our future. <- going to come up with a better phrasing for this topic sentence. All of the resources deal with the faith
Shoemaker, Nancy. “ Native-American Women in History.” OAH Magazine of History , Vol. 9, No. 4, Native Americans (Summer, 1995), pp. 10-14. 17 Nov. 2013
Zitkala-Sa was extremely passionate with her native background, and she was adamant on preserving her heritage. When Zitkala was a young girl, she attended White’s Manual Labor Institute, where she was immersed in a different way of life that was completely foreign and unjust to her. And this new way of life that the white settlers imposed on their home land made it extremely difficult for Native Americans to thrive and continue with their own culture. In Zitkala’s book American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings, she uses traditional and personal Native stories to help shape her activism towards equality amongst these new settlers. Zitkala’s main life goal was to liberate her people and help
Sacagawea, or also referred to as Sacagawea with a “g” or Sacakawea with a “k”, is known for her history in the Lewis and Clark expedition.(Sacajawea) She was born in Lemhi Mountains, which is now called Idaho, in 1788. She was the daughter of the Chief of the Indian Tribe, Shoshone. When she was 12 years old in 1800, she was kidnapped by the Hidasta Indian Tribe and taken to North Dakota. The Hidasta Indians also took several others along with her, and raided her Tribe from their stuff, killing a few people. A year after her arrival she was bought or gambled by a French-Canadian fur trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau, he made her his wife along with all his other “wives”. When she was 16, in 1804, she had gotten pregnant. By that time Lewis and Clark were setting up camp for the winter in Fort Mandan and had hired her husband as a translator. They later learned that Sacagawea spoke Shoshone and Hidasta, so they then asked her to join them, and she gladly accepted. “The soil as you leave the heights of the mountains becomes gradually more fertile. the land through which we passed this evening is of an excellent quality tho very broken, it is a dark grey soil” (quotes Lewis as he travels through Idaho Country.)
Wilma Mankiller was born in 1945 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma where she lived with her father Charlie, a full-blooded Cherokee, her mother Irene, of mixed Irish and Dutch ancestry, as well as her four sisters and six brothers. Their surname is a traditional Cherokee military rank. Wilma was a fifth generation Mankiller, with ancestry traced back to the Cherokee forced to move west along the Trail of Tears (Mankiller 3-4). She grew up in Oklahoma on land granted to her family by the federal government. In 1956, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a federal agency responsible for the land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, relocated her family to San Francisco with their consent (Mankiller 60). Her family’s relocation by the government had a great affect...
Prior to the fall of 1940, Native Americans had never faced any significant effects of a military draft prior or during a U.S war. This was because before 1924, not all Native Americans were citizens of the United States. During the years of the first World War, it is estimated that as much as half of the Native American population in the U.S were not citizens (Bernstein, 22). Even so, many Native Americans still saw action during this conflict which later help influence the passing of the Citizenship Act that granted “blanket” citizenship to all Indians born in the United States (Bernstein, 22). This act played a huge role at the start of the 1940’s when the United States started militarizing large amounts of their citizens. After the passing
Lakota Woman Essay In Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog argues that in the 1970’s, the American Indian Movement used protests and militancy to improve their visibility in mainstream Anglo American society in an effort to secure sovereignty for all "full blood" American Indians in spite of generational gender, power, and financial conflicts on the reservations. When reading this book, one can see that this is indeed the case. The struggles these people underwent in their daily lives on the reservation eventually became too much, and the American Indian Movement was born. AIM, as we will see through several examples, made their case known to the people of the United States, and militancy ultimately became necessary in order to do so.
It begins with the story of Wetamo and her husband Wamsutta the leader of the Wampanoag people. It describes the struggles that the couple faced when the settlers of Plymouth decided that the people's land, in fact, belonged to the Plymouth government. The story follows Wetamo as she became a widow and the new leader of her people. Wetamo spent the rest of her life fighting English settlers, one day it was reported that “ … an Indian squaw in Metapoiset newly dead, cut off her head and it happened to be Weetamoo” . Throughout this chapter Berkin uses Wetamo to explore the early lives of American Indian peoples, marital interactions and the rights of passages that the peoples perform. Along with the relationship that children and mothers
Throughout our country’s history there have been several groups who have fared less that great. Every minority group was treated unfairly, Indians were uprooted and had no control, I can’t imagine for a second being a soldier in combat, women struggled for basic rights, and many people fell victim to the changing ways of our economy, losing their jobs and fighting to survive. It seems wrong to pick one group over another, as if to say some people who were treated horribly or who faced mounting obstacles didn’t actually have it as bad as another group. But throughout all the years we’ve studied, one group that stood out to me who were dealt a horrible fate were Native Americans living in the west during the 19th century. When Americans began to expand westward, Indians unwillingly had their lives flipped upside down and changed drastically. After years of displacement, they were being forced to live in certain areas and follow certain rules, or risk their lives.
together for the better of the shared children. The women had a say in how they would help
Sacagawea was born in 1788 into an Agaidika (Salmon Eater) tribe of Shoshone Native Americans which is located in todays Idaho. When Sacagawea was twelve years old she and several other Shoshone girls were kidnapped in the midst of a battle between indian tribes. At the age of thirteen Sacagawea was sold to Toussaint Charbonneau, a Canadian trapper, where he took her as his new wife. By the age of sixteen, Sacagawea was already pregnant with her first child. Although Sacagawea had a rough start, she still went on to make history.
“Reclaiming Culture and the Land: Motherhood and the Politics of Sustaining Community” is about a mother who is a Native American activist who has two children, she wants them to be raised and go to school in an Indian community. “I put my children in that school because I wanted them to be in the Indian community.” She explains that she is not sure if her children know what she is doing is common, but they know that what she is doing is right. “My children do have the sense that what I do is not necessarily common. Recently my daughter started asking me if I’m famous.” She has fought for her children to have a good life, full of community, ritual, and an understanding of who they are and where they come from.
Winona LaDuke is a famous social activist who majorly fights for indigenous rights. In 2000 and 1996, she acted as the vice-presidential contender on the Green Party label led by Ralph Nader. Her White Earth reservation work encompasses creating community-based organizations, as well as engaging in court cases. Noteworthy, she writes both fiction and non-fiction. Long Standing Woman, published in 1997, is among her best-known works. The book traces seven Anishinaabe generations’ lives.
5) Williams , Timothy. "For Native American Women, Scourge of Rape, Rare Justice." New York Times 22 May 2012, n. pag. Print. .
On September 7, 1968, a group of feminists from the Women’s Liberation Movement protested the Miss America Pageant. To quote their press release, the women were protesting, “The degrading Mindless-Boobie-Girl Symbol,” “Racism with Roses,” and the “irrelevant crown on the throne of mediocrity,” among other issues in an attempt to raise consciousness in the American public. This protest scandalized Americans with its theatrics and radicalism. The downfall of the Miss America Protest was hastened by its own radicalism and exclusivity, as was the Women’s Liberation Movement at large.
Topic sentence: I think the simulation of grew edible plants in Mars Soil is a good idea for several reason.