Cree

when the Europeans saw the Indigenous women they associated them as being evil sex symbols for being topless, carrying weapons and being surrounded by animals (Abbott Mihesuah, 2003, p. 59). Indigenous women were also referred to as a squaw, which is Cree for a woman, however European men turned this into a negative, degrading and humiliating word to call Indigenous women (Sutherland, 2008, p. 129). In the late 1800s Indigenous children were sent to residential schools to control their…

Booth is not impressed with the politician’s mansion and chivalric manners. He calls him an “ignoramus” and believes it important to his reader that he belonged to the “class which orchestrated the war.” Captain Alfred Cree would inform his wife that the houses he finds in Louisiana are better than the houses at home, but not as plentiful “as the land is all owned by planters.” These planters call northern farmers “mud sills,” because they possess, he estimates, a quarter…

Throughout history there have been various definitions present on what a disaster is and the effects that it contains in relation to the environment and residents within the area. Society often has specific dominant worldviews in regards to disasters, which can pertain to or focus around disasters being seen as a “hazard”, “unlucky”, or an “unavoidable “ event (Scandlyn et al, 2009). Generally, many individuals tend to reflect on definitions in relation to conventional theories because the media…

REVOLUTIONARIES WAR There were African American troops that marched with George Washington. In 1815 they served under Andrew Jackson in New Orleans against the British. CIVIL WAR It was not until the Civil War that there was a large number of African Americans in the military. When the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, many African Americans wanted to join the Union army. Sometime in 1862 Colonel Higginson from Massachusetts was given command of the First Regiment…