If it wasnt for Mrs. Magyar giving me the book A People's History of The United States, it would have been hard to find how the government progressed over the years in a Native Americans point of view because its all written by white people and the government. They never talk about all the murders Colmubus commited. This is the first ive ever read about Columbus, and it made me mad to hear about the things he did just to get this nation started. I know that sometimes you got to do what you got to do but

Black Hawk

I realized now that my blogs aren't really summing up to the topic i chose "What its like growing up Native American." So i did some research about a Native American man that went by the name of Black Hawk. As a young boy his was the son of Chief Pyesa from the Sauk Tribe. There reserve was between the Rock River and the Mississippi River in Illinois, Black Hawk was just a boy then, too young to hunt or fight in war. After being attacked by the Osage Indians, Black Hawk killed his enemy and was considered a warrior to his tribe. It was then he started going to council meetings with the other men. After his father died the village decided to make him Chief. When going to St. Louis to trade with the Spanish he found that they were no longer there and their reserve had been taken over by The Americans. He went to Canada to trade with the Americans up there for gunpowder, when returning home he found that the Americans had come and attacked their village with swords. Quickly after he sent three cheifs to surrender or call a truths, they signed a treaty and lost their land.
That is the point was trying to get to really is that being Native American you were tricked by the Americans because they would have you sign documents saying differnt then what was wrote. So im taking it being one of the First Native Americans they had no idea how to speak english and for that they were being tricked, lied to and just being taken advantage of. I don't think it was fair at all because even if they did know english it probably wasnt perfect and understandable to know what was written in a complicated sheet of paper just written on. Thats my point of veiw any way.

A Little About The Tlingit Tribe.

Lingit is the Native word for people and the "I" in Tlingit is silent, like its not even there. Its pronounced "KLIN-kit." Their reserves are in Southern Alaska, British Columbia and the Yukon in Canada. Alaskan Tlingits and and tlingits from the U.S dont have a reservation but are from "Native Villages" instead. "but the Tlingits belong to a coalition called the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska which handles tribal government on behalf of several Native villages. Individual Tlingit villages also have local councils that have economic control over their village resources."

The website where i got my information has alot of good links to go to and ill post later. Also i am Tlingit, so most of my research will be about them.

Random Blogging.

I havent read to much more of "Growing Up Native American". I do plan on reading tonight though. I did learn a little about the Quileute Tribe on the field trip to the Seattle Museum. I always thought it was made up because the book Twighlight but they really are real. Their tribe is known as the "Whale Challengers" because back in the day their elders would take the challenge to hunt them. Whales in their language is called "kwalla". They are also known for telling the story of how the "bayak" (raven)placed the sun in the sky. I got my information from The Seattle Art Museum and the website http://www.quileutenation.org/

"Growing Up Native American"

I starting reading this book called "Growing Up Native American". The first story is by a man named Simon Ortiz explaining what it was like growing up learning language where he lived. He and his fmaily were forced to go to school to write and read english. Being forced to learn english he infact loved it i guess but it was not learning english that made him want to write it, it was his dad beating the drum and singing while his brothers, sisters and himself danced around. He's a poet now and in a later post ill show one and write what i think about it.
In the story i liked finding out that a Native American man was to work doing what benifitted his family, community and himself.

Questions I Plan on Researching

* What do Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, Australian Natives and any other Native Americans have in common?

* Who were some famous Native Americans?

* What was it like being some of the first Native Americans?

* Who were some of the first Alaskan Natives from my tribe?

* How were they treated?

* How did the Native Americans side with the Americans in the Revolutionary War?

* What other wars were they in?

Introduction To My Blogs

Hey, hi, hello. My name is Mariah and i go to New Start. I'm hoping to graduate this year and to make that happen I'm going to be blogging about "What its like to be Native American" for a language arts credit. I'm half Alaskan Native and don't know anything about my tribe. That is the main reason why i picked this topic because i want to learn about the First Native Americans, the First Alaskan Natives, myself and ancestors. I have questions about what I'd like to learn but i will write those in my next blog. Other then that i will be posting blogs about books i am reading, people I've talked to or have met and anything else from my opinions to beliefs or stories Native Americans have believed in for years.