Assignment:
In this class we have identified, organized,
investigated, and analyzed information concerning western expansion of the
United States from the 1860s through the 1900s. For this assignment you are to
take upon the role of a Native American Chief. Your tribe can be a small branch
from a larger nation or you can represent the Chief of the Nation. You are to
write a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs explaining your side of the
argument while acknowledging the United States government’s perspective.
Role: Native American Chief
Audience: Bureau of Indian Affairs
Format: Letter
Topic: Native American view on western expansion
Student
Sample:
To the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
My
name is Chief Wakoyantanke. In your language my name means large thunder. I am a
member of the Sioux nation. I am Chief over a band of Sioux, which resides in
the Montana Territory. Your greed for land has torn my Nation from our homeland
in the Dakotas and pushed us to the Montana Territory. You send us to reservations
and pay us annuity, yet your white trader’s goods are too high of a price and
we starve—disease ridden. Buffalo on the plains have been annihilated, thus Mother
Nature cannot provide for her children. I understand your people are vast, but
you must realize such punishment will only cause further conflict.
With great respect,
Chief Wakoyantanke
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