Many inner cities were separated by their own ethnic groups and where their families were. ... Whole families had to work for wages that were close to nothing just to make it in this new land. ... The women in most farmhouses mainly worked in the family households, and ran the dairy, vegetable, and poultry part of the farm. ... Life on the farm was very difficult in the closing of the frontier. Some survived and lived to pass their farm down from generation to generation. ...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

If the woman moved to the husband's dwelling at the time of the marriage she could simply move her belongings back to her family's dwelling. ... In addition to the duties in the crops, the women were expected to care for the home, their children, and of their family. Chief Standing Bear of the Sioux tribe wrote: "Women's work was to cook for the family, keep the teepee in order, and sew the clothing of the household members" (M. ... English settlers, however, refused to acknowledge the Natives' claims to the soil, and their farms and plantations intruded onto Indian women&...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5

It is the ancestral homeland of sedentary Tanoan and Keresan Pueblo Indian peoples, who diverted its waters and farmed its valleys, as well as nomadic Athabaskans (Apaches and Navajos) and Shoshoneans (Utes and Comanches), who roamed and hunted its mountains and deserts, alternately raiding and trading with the Pueblos. ... Indians and Hispanics tend to rely on the extended family for the future. The Indians and Hispanics are more oriented to the group than the individual, with stress being placed on the extended family and upon friends. ...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6

They made sure to use every part of a hunted animal for either food or clothing and took very good care of the land by only taking what they needed when it came to gathering food for their families. ... Indians were commonly placed on rocky and hilly terrain which was extremely difficult to farm and irrigate. ... Alcoholism and drug abuse turned into a major problem on the reservations which tore families apart and in some cases was fatal. ...

• Word Count: 1404
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They were completely wrong as we can read in Martin Manning book titled Encyclopedia of media and propaganda in wartime America which says that Indians often get "()desert and near desert farms unsuitable for farming. ... "To each head of family, one- quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one- eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one- eighth of section; and to each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date of order of the President directing an allotment of the lands em...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As an adult he married and started a family but when Mexican soldiers killed his wife and children in 1858, he vowed revenge. ... This was considered a positive change because the Apache people had expressed a desire for a drier climate and for land to farm. ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Soldiers pricked friends and family with bayonets to keep them from turning back to help (Brill, 45). ... Manifest destiny had to be a real strong belief of Jackson because he said What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When white's first arrived in America the natives helped them adapt to an uncivilized way of life by teaching them how to farm crops. ... After the American patriots won the war, they (Americans) slaughtered 96 Delaware Indians for the attack on a white family. ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Within this tale, there is always the mention of the Native Americans, the ones who taught us to farm and understand the ways the North American lands worked in comparison to European ones most of the travelers had previously been accustomed. ... Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" paints this metaphor between him and his race, the gap and loss of this time, and the brutality it leaves upon the souls generation after generation of black families whose ancestors were once slaves. ... We are given a peak into what they have gone through, and how white people have destroyed their lives and ha...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate