THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

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THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN
Song of Lover, LOC
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Objectives

• To learn about Native American warriors and the
  battles they fought
  
• To learn about Native Americans who promoted
  peace
  
• To evaluate the morality of war and to propose
  alternatives
  
• To look at the past and see if it has a message
  for us today

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VOCABULARY OR IDEAS WE WILL ENCOUNTER IN THIS
LESSON

• Insert vocabulary words in appropriate sphere

• Tolerance Revenge
• Prejudice Invasion
• Treaty genocide
• Courage carnage
• Hate prestige
• Love
• Retaliation
• Forgiveness
• Greed
• Compromise
• Integrity
• Compassion

WAR
PEACE
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THOSE WHO CAN NOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED
TO REPEAT IT

• George Santayana

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WAR

• After European arrival
• War became constant
• For survival
• For protection of their
• homeland from
• invasion

• Warriors fought for
• prestige,
• revenge,
• to regain captives,
• defend their village

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Geronimo, Apache Warrior
The Apaches and their homes, each created for the
other. When they are taken from these homes they
sicken and die. Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache Mor
e info
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CHIEF CRAZY HORSE

• 1842 - 1877
• Sioux warrior
• With guidance from Sitting Bull, he led the
  victorious attack on General Custer
  
• More info
• more

Crazy horse Library of Congress
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The Battle of the Little Big Horn

• or Custers Last Stand
• 1876 General George Custer and 1/3 of his
  cavalry regiment were killed
  
• Lead by Sioux warrior, Chief Crazy Horse
• It was the Indians greatest victory against the
  advancing enemy
  
• But in the end, it changed nothing.
• Eyewitness account
• Library of Congress
• LOC Americas Library

Custers last charge (L.O.C.)
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SITTING BULL, Sioux warrior

• The Sioux Indians became famous for their war
  exploits.
  
• They became symbols of Indian resistance for
  white Americans
  
• Short bio
• St. Louis Republic, 1890
• S.B. In Memory, 1864

Sitting Bull Buffalo Bill Library of Congress
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WOUNDED KNEE

• The last of the Indian wars
• South Dakota, 1890
• 300 men, women, and children were killed
• The last of the Indian tribes were driven on to
  reservations
  
• Eyewitness to history

Sioux tribe, LOC
The phenomena of the Ghost Dance Religion
triggered the massacre at Wounded Knee
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WOUNDED KNEE

• A civilian burial party stands by their wagon
  filled with the frozen bodies of Native American
  Lakota Sioux, in a ravine south of the camp at
  Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South
  Dakota. Mounted U.S. Army officers look on from
  hill above.
• More Info 1ghost dance 2 massacre 3 twisted
  footnote
  

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WOUNDED KNEE

• I did not know then how much was ended. I can
  still see the butchered women and children lying
  heaped and scattered along the crooked gulch. And
  I can see that something else died there in the
  bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A
  peoples dream died there. It was a beautiful
  dream...The nations hope is broken and
  scattered. There is no center any longer, and the
  sacred tree is dead.Black Elk

Death song, LOC
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Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

• I am tired of fighting
• The old men are all dead . The little children
  are freezing to death.
  
• My people, some of them, have run away to the
  hills and have no blankets, no food.
  
• No one knows where they are .

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Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

• Hear me, my chiefs!
• I am tired
• my heart is sick and sad.
• From where the sun now stands,
• I will fight no more forever.
• Nez Perce Indians Library of Congress 2
• maps

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Primary Source Material

• Indian Wars of the West published 1832
• Library of Congress
• Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache
  and Mohave Indians, published 1875
  
• Library of Congress
• My Captivity Among the Sioux , published 1871 by
  Fanny Kelly
  
• Library of Congress

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A WARRIORS SHIELD
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The world is so big..

• CAN ONE PERSON REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

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HIAWATHA

• Hiawatha and Deganawidah traveled all of
  Iroquois country
  
• forging alliance,
• teaching the Great Law of Justice, and
• spreading the gospel of the Tree of Peace.

Sacred Prayer, Papa John Tribal Meditations
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HIAWATHA REMEMBERED
Chicago, IL
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The Great Principles of the Great Lawthe values
and traditions of the constitution of the
Iroquois Confederacy

• RIGHTEOUSNESS each individual must have a
  strong sense of justice
  
• The influence on the US Constitution
• HEALTH the peacefulness that results when a
  strong mind uses its rational power to
  promote well being
  
• POWER comes from the united actions of the
  people operating under one law, with one mind,
  one heart, and one body
  

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The Two Row Wampum Belt

• "This symbolizes the agreement under which the
  Iroquois welcomed the white peoples to their
  lands.'We will NOT be like father and son, but
  like brothers. These TWO ROWS will symbolize
  vessels, traveling down the same river together.
  One will be for the Original People, their laws,
  their customs,and the other for the European
  people and their laws and customs.We will each
  travel the river together,but each in our own
  boat.And neither of us will try to steer the
  other's vessel.'"

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The Hiawatha Belt

• This belt may be the oldest. It represents the
  first United Nations agreement, the first time in
  history anywhere on the globe where independent
  nations were able to join together under a
  unified government that allowed individual
  customs and governments of member nations. This
  belt memorialized the League of the Pine Tree
  (center) or Great Peace, of the 5 original
  Iroquois Nations.

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CHIEF SEATTLE

• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of
  the land?...
  
• We are part of the earth and it is a part of us.
• respect the land, tell your children that the
  earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
  
• More info

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BROTHER EAGLE, SISTER SKY By Susan Jeffers, Winn
er of the 1992 Abby Award

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KATERI TEKAKWITHA THE LILY OF THE MOHAWKS

• Kateri is a source of great hope for her
  people and a bridge that brings together, in
  peace, all people who respect her courage and
  heroic virtue.

Kateri lived the gospel of love
LOC collection
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PEACE

• Free every heart from pride and self-reliance,
• Our ways of thought inspire with simple grace
• Break down among us barriers of defiance,
• Speak to the soul of all the human race.
• Teach us to serve the need of others, Help us to
  give and not to count the cost,
  
• Unite us all for we are born as brothers.
• Fred Kaan, 1929

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What can we do to bring peace in this world?

• Some people
• Some people

War protest, Chicago, 3/20/04
What more can we do?
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Acknowledgement

• A special thanks to the faculty and staff at
  Prussing School, region 1, Chicago, IL
  
• for their constant encouragement, support, and
  generous assistance
  
• especially
• Mr. Ehrenberg, principal
• Mr. Ding Ms. Wickline
• Mrs. Elouadrhiri Ms. Matz
• Ms. Fabian Ms. Williams
• Ms. Elmasri Ms. Zaparowski
• and Victor Harbison,

Thanks, Linda Duplantis, 2004