Alaska Native Tlingit

/ Tlingit Tribe / Pronounced- TLING - GIT Culture- Men hunted and women cooked and farmed Foods- Abundance of fish, they also lived by gathering berries and hunting Animals of importance- Fish Levels of society- chief, always men Language- English, only elders know their native language Clothing- Cloth robes Landscape-

Through clever use of narration and with continuous references to socio-legal and linguistic anthropological theories and methodologies, he is able to generate curiosity in the reader by giving them a chance to witness the emergence of tribal law in the Hopi courts and their struggle for sovereignty. In the 1940’s the Bureau of Indian Affairs had created and propagated the legal system in Hopi in the image of Anglo-American style law much like the systems implemented in other courts of the Indian nations across the United States. However, Richard demonstrates that due to a lack of relevance to the Hopi culture, recently the tribe’s jurists and litigants have expressed a need for a court that resonates more with their cultural and traditional outlook and thus is able to interpret and resolve conflicts in a way that reflects the tribe’s own notion of justice and equality. However, the phenomenon observed by Richard was the fact that with over thirty years of the Anglo-American legal system operating in Hopi it had also in turn shaped and influenced some of the structures and rules of criminal and civil proceedings of the Hopi courts to the extent that even though they would stay true to their own cultural heritage but

The Act led to an array of legal and moral arguments for and against the need to relocate the Indians westward from the agriculturally productive lands of the Mississippi in Georgia and parts of Alabama. This paper compares and contrasts the major arguments for and against the

Elizabeth Petrovich was part of the Tlingit culture, she fought for native equality. She gained the Territory’s Anti- Discrimination in 1945. in 1900s there was signs where it said “No natives allowed.” “I would not ave expected that I, who am barely out of savagery, would have to remind gentlemen with five thousand years of recorded civilization behind them, of our bill of rights.”-Elizabeth Petrovich.

There had been another conflict that occurred on the Great Lakes of Michigan that had to do with “Indian off-reservation rights” (521). The tribes tried to stop the Indian fishing on the lakes for not having licenses, but they could not do that unless it had a strong case for

First Semester Research Paper During the 19th century, there was a period of time where white settlers in the United States thought expanding throughout all of North America was justified. The Americans also thought it was their divine right to expand and that it was inevitable. This is just another instance where the Americans took the Native Americans for granted. The Native Americans shouldn 't have been kicked out because they had nowhere else to go, the settlers had peace treaties with the tribes and the reasons for pushing them out were illogical.

Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. Of course there were already Native Americans living in the area. The new people in the U.S. wanted to push the Native Americans out and make room for their new settlements. Not all of the Native Americans were very happy about being pushed out of their homes. The Native Americans were affected greatly by Manifest Destiny.

These laws gave the natives more freedom by letting Indians from governments and by banning open discrimination. This benefited America even more by being able to start to coexist with the indigenous population. Gold also played a major role on the impact of Alaska. Once America discovered gold was in Alaska newcomers came from all around and took advantage of situation. In an excerpt from an article on “what did Alaska get from the Gold Rush?”

Have you ever had a sibling or somebody else ruin the things you were doing or the way you do things? Native Americans understand this question because it happened to them hundreds of years ago. Before the Spanish and British came to the Americas, there were almost 300,000 people in North America. These Native Americans were from Eurasia, Africa, and even Australia, and had their lives ruined by western explorers and settlements. The Native Americans were the first people in North America and likely crossed over the land bridge and split into a number of groups.

The Tlingit are an American Indian people that are from southern Alaska. The name “Tlingit” is defined as “in the people”. Their population now is said to be around twenty-five thousand. The Tlingit people hunted seals, goats, deer, and bear; fished for herring, salmon, and halibut; and gathered shellfish, berries, and roots. There were multiple species of salmon that bombarded their streams during migration times.

When the Europeans began colonizing the New World, they had a problematic relationship with the Native Americans. The Europeans sought to control a land that the Natives inhabited all their lives. They came and decided to take whatever they wanted regardless of how it affected the Native Americans. They legislated several laws, such as the Indian Removal Act, to establish their authority. The Indian Removal Act had a negative impact on the Native Americans because they were driven away from their ancestral homes, forced to adopt a different lifestyle, and their journey westwards caused the deaths of many Native Americans.

Native Americans began to occupy various site around the US, such as Alcatraz and Wounded Knee in protest of their discrimination. Lawsuits were filed by the Native Americans against those they found to have violated treaties gave them new found power. This led to an increase of negotiations between the government of the US, and the Native Americans. Increased opportunities in education were afforded to Natives, and the rights of their Reservations were expanded (Pgs. 905-908). Backlash:

The main difference that we see between both racial ethnic groups is that white Americans believed that they could strip Native Americans from their culture and civilize them while “nurture could not improve the nature of blacks” (67). Although some Native Americans did try to live under the laws of white Americans, they were eventually betrayed and forced to leave the

Manifest Destiny, a policy that encouraged americans to spread from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans. There were two perspectives of Manifest Destiny which was either seen as an opportunity to becoming greater or a white man’s greed. Americans were quite fond of themselves, they believed that it was their “destiny” to spread their nation across the globe, that this policy will benefit both sides. Natives were forced to follow under America’s authority. Without full consent they were removed from their homelands to only fulfill selfish idea made from greed.

Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less than respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land, and to achieve this goal, the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history, and the US government made many treatments with the Native Americans, making big changes on the Indian nation. Native Americans wanted to live peacefully with the white men, but the result of treatments and agreements was not quite peaceful. This precedent of mistreatment of minorities began with Andrew Jackson’s indian removal policies to the tribes of Oklahoma (specifically the Cherokee indians) in 1829 because of the lack of respect given to the indians during the removal laws.