The battle between Alberta and Osceola, leaders of their tribes, was to take place in the swamp. The leaders were seeking claim to the land. Alberta was intelligent, self- motivated and hardworking. Osceola was presumptuous to say the least. The tribe led by Osceola had plans to defeat Alberta and her tribe, but Alberta establishes a plan to demolish them. The plan was successful, and all of the members of the tribe were jubilant that they had claimed their land. After reading this screen play synopsis, I immediately knew I wanted to be cast for the role of Alberta. I can relate to Alberta’s tenacity to achieve her goal, while helping others. The first day of kindergarten I met the biggest challenge of my life. I struggled with the
I believe Justice O’Connor’s plurality opinion of Jennifer Troxel et vir. V. Tommie Granville (802-803) was an example of a “good opinion.” The piece was both well-written and backed by appropriate precedent; O’Connor cited Meyer and Stanley v. Illinois, supra, observing, “[The] interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children [is] perhaps the oldest of the fundamental [due process] liberty interests recognized by this Court” (802). He additionally emphasized that the Court had not found Granville an unfit mother, nor had the Troxels accused her of being one when the case began. I find the majority opinion of Robin Joy Shahar v. Michael Bowers to be an example of a “bad opinion” for several reasons.
“This is our land! It isn’t a piece of pemmican to be cut off and given in little pieces to us. It is ours and we will take what we want.” (voices and visions chapter 8 pg.181, poundmaker in the english tongue) The Cree and many Métis believed that the land was theirs and they were entitled to it.
October, 1763 After years of fighting alongside the British, the battle over our homeland has finally ended. I still wonder, how did we end up fighting for something that has always been ours? We, the mighty Iroquois, have defeated the French settlers and their bloodthirsty allies, the Algonquins. With this came a royal decree.
Many Aboriginals have tried to push for equality, as Maria’s father did when he was trying to unite the people and create “an organization that the government couldn’t ignore.” (73). However, this is largely not the case as many aboriginals are under represented or have been denied their entitlements through a fair court case. The unfair representation of Metis has caused those to give up and ridicule those who do, an example of such ridicule is when others of the community ridiculed Maria’s father for enacting for political change, sarcastically saying “Saskatchewan has a new Reil.” (74) As stated by Kelly L. Saunders in “the hunt for justice: Metis harvesting rights and the pursuit of self government”, “the governments denied that metis collectivities existed, denied that they were aboriginal, denied their aboriginal treaty rights, and denied that government had any legal obligations towards the Metis.”
Dear "Papery Newspaper," After I read your recent article, "Haywood Patterson Trial Strikes Again!" by Sophia Rowe, I felt the need to clarify what the article did not say. The public is ignorant to the significant problems that are being brought into our court every day and innocent lives are paying the price. This article specifically makes me angry and passionate for change. Many of you know about Judge Horton. He is a very fair and unbiased person, who has spoken many words of wisdom.
Although, the Pequot War had ended the need for land still remained the main need among the colonist in the New World. This left a great opportunity for Massasoit to gain an upper hand and, continue to gain power by selling his lands to the English. These sells also brought peace between the tribes and the colonists but, this also gave Massasoit more power in the New World. Thus, “…from Massasoit’s perspective, his alliance with the English continued to serve him well.”
This article’s title is “Inseparable Companions” and Irreconcilable Enemies: The Hurons and Odawas of French Detroit, 1701-38 and its author is Andrew Sturtevant. The thesis in this article is the sentence, “The Hurons ' and Odawas ' simmering hostility and eventual conflict demonstrate that native groups survived the Iroquois onslaught and that their interaction profoundly shaped the region”. In this article, Sturtevant is arguing that the Huron and Odawa are distinct nations with different culture and that because of the differences they had many disagreements, not simply because of the colonialism by the French. Sturtevant uses direct quotes from primary sources to show that the distinct nations fought because of their own differences,
MILLERSBURG — Despite a plea for leniency expressed by the victim, a Sugarcreek man was unable to overcome a long history of criminal convictions and a bond violation when a Holmes County judge on Wednesday sentenced him to prison for making unwanted phone calls and threats to several members of a family over a period of months. David Lamar Schrock, 43, of 2578 State Route 39, previously pleaded guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to two counts of telephone harassment and one count of menacing by stalking. In exchange for his guilty plea, the state agreed to dismiss two additional counts of telephone harassment and three counts of menacing by stalking. The charges are made more serious because Schrock was convicted, in January 2016,
The Shawnee teamed up with the British to fight for the Ohio River. The Shawnee occupied the front lines of the British Army. The American, yet again, try taking control of American Indian territories as this was the cause of the war between the Shawnee and the Americans. The only way that the Shawnee would win was if they fought alongside with the British. As they did, The British and the Shawnee take over the Ohio River, but they had to agree to the terms of the Treaty of Greenville as they had to give up more land to get back what was theirs in the first
The Scopes Trial, a Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools, induced a pivotal point in American history. This world-famous trial symbolizes the conflict between science and theology, faith and reason, individual liberty, and majority rule. The preeminent purpose of the case was to decide not only the fate of an evolution theory teacher by the name of John Scopes, but also to decide if fundamentalists or modernists would rule American culture and education. An object of profound publicity, the trial was identified as a battle between urban modernism and rural fundamentalism. On January 20, 1925, a Tennessee state senator, John A. Shelton, proposed a bill to make the teaching of evolution in the state’s
The Europeans and the Iroquois caused drastic changes within the Iroquois society and their methodology of warfare (Snow, 1996). Even though their alliance extended across their combined territory, their alliance wasn’t unified toward its neighbors. This caused their Iroquoians to become fierce enemies to the people outside their
The Pequot War, entailed that the surviving Pequot men and women not to be called Pequot people any longer. The intention of the English were to meet colonial domination of the Indian tribe, which meant for the eradication of the Pequot, materially and culturally. After the victory over Pequot forces in a swamp battle and the further accumulation of more Pequot captives, an assessment by Roger Williams stated that it had (againe pleased the most High to put into your hands another miserable drove of Adams degenerate seeds” ( Cremer
Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock is a magical story showcasing the past, present, and future of Canadian First Nations people from Rusty, a teenager's perspective. The author Drew Hayden Taylor shows how quickly and drastically someone's life can change based on experiences and people who come into their lives. Rusty at first isn’t confident as a First Nations boy and has little care about his culture, but later on, is taught the importance of it which leads him to try to make his dreams of becoming Grand Chief a reality. Rusty learns that getting a proper education will help him achieve his goals, which changes his negative opinion of school. Rusty starts off with low self-esteem and looks down on himself and his culture.
Garnet's family treated him as though he never left the reserve and showed him what it is like to live on the reserve. Not long after moving to the reserve Garnet moved in with his mother he began to feel like he belonged. Living on the reserve was the first time Garnet did not shy away from his heritage but he embraced it. On the reserve, Garnet did not feel ashamed of being Indigenous, because he was allowed
Over the years, our Canadian criminal justice system has maintained an unbiased justice and takes pride on the framework that is constructed by the rule of law. This system values the principles, rituals, and customs, to seek truthfulness. A prime feature of this justice system is law enforcement. It contains principles that were instilled decades ago in which; societal stability was considered to be the utmost valuable. Social stability can be explained as a system that operates systematically.