Sample Papers

Out of the three sample papers, in my opinion number one was best one. In his first paragraph he asks us how can someone overcome their obstacles, why they are put in that certain situation. After he tells us, Junior feels everything he does is wrong, but doesn't want to end up like the rest of his clan and wants more for himself and doesn't want them to feel disappointed in him, but he won't give up in changing himself. Every time the writer spoke about the book or a scene in the book he always had a quote from that scene which made me visualize what he was trying to tell me and his transactions were good. It was an ok convincing paper, the writer kept talking about the horse burning and drowning and would also relate it to Junior in the current problems he was going through which made it more interesting to know what was going to happen next after the horse disappeared. His topic sentence in the beginning was good because the questions that he asked went with it and it transacted well. Through out the whole paper Junior had to analyze and think carefully what his next move was going to be and what the consequences were, all of that led back to his topic. 

Native American tribes

source: Historyonthenet 2000-2013

Tribe: Cherokee

Static: Hunter-gathers

Leader: Sequoyah

• Made up of seven different clans
• Usual shelter was cane and mud plaster huts
• Women were in charge of the home and land
• Men were in charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp
• Grew corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers
• Used canoes
• 1821 Sequoyah invented the Cherokee alphabet
• 1838-9 moved west to Oklahoma (Trail of Tears - 4000+ died on the 800 mile journey)

Tribe: Black Foot

Static: Hunter-gathers

Leader: Crowfoot

• Made up of several different groups
• Usual shelter was a tipi
• Women were in charge of the home and owned the tipi
• Men were in charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp
• Polygamy was usual
• Reliant on the buffalo
• Performed Sun Dance in the summer
• Mid 1800s many killed by smallpox
• 1870 200 killed in the Marias Massacre

Tribe: Cheyenne

Static: Hunter-gathers

Leader: Black Kettle

• Made up of ten different bands
• Allied with Arapaho and Sioux
• Usual shelter was a tipi
• Women were in charge of the home and owned the tipi
• Men were in charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp
• Reliant on the buffalo
• 1864 Cheyenne were among those slaughtered in the Sand Creek Massacre
• 1876 Northern Cheyenne took part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• 1877 Many forced to Oklahoma those that resisted were shot

Tribe:Apache
Static:hunter-gathers
Leader:Geronimo, Cochise

• Made up of several different groups
• Lived in extended family units
• Usual shelter was a dome-shaped lodge called a wickiup
• Polygamy was allowed but rarely practised
• Reliant on the buffalo
• Frequent disputes with the Comanches led to their weakening in the 1700s
• Traded with the Pueblas in Mexico or raided Spanish villages for goods and horses
• 1861 conflict between Apaches led by Cochise and Americans in protest at being forced onto reservations
• 1874 a group of Apaches led by Geronimo escaped capture and fled to Mexico
• 1886 Geronimo forced to surrender and taken to Fort Marion in Florida

Tribe:Panwee

Static:Hunter Famers

Leader: --

• Made up of four different bands
• Usual shelter was an earth lodge but used tipis when hunting
• Women were in charge of the home
• Men were in charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp
• Many killed by smallpox and cholera in the mid 1800s 
• 1825 recognised supremacy of US government
• 1830-1860 - gave up increasing amounts of land to US government
• Many Pawnee became scouts for the US government
• 1876 Moved to Oklahoma reservation

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census (2000 census).

Top 10 Native American Tribes today.

1. Cherokee population: 308,013
2. Navajo population: 285,476
3. Choctaw population: 158,374
4. Sioux population: 153,360
5. Chippewa population: 99,833
6. Apache population: 96,833
7. Blackfeet population: 85,750
8. Iroquois population: 80,822
9. Pueblo population: 74,085
10. Creek population: 71,310

State of Union

Watching Obama's State of Union speech and listening to everything he had to say had me really interested. This was the first time I ever watched something like this. One of the topics that he spoke about caught my attention, Obama said that he will raise wages up to ten dollars in perspective that is a very good idea because it's hard already to find a minimum wage job, now that the wage is getting raised workers can know apply to jobs knowing that they will start at a good pay. He also said "no single parent should live in the U.S stressed about rent, we are in 2014 it's an embarrassment" that right should me that he is trying to make changes and feels the pain of all the single parents out there.