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- 1511: Adversity And Resilience Of Ho
- ... is also faced with discrimination from the society. During the Japanese invasion of China, the Japanese army found out about his homosexual tendencies, and they forced Douzi to dress up as a woman and have sexual intercourse with them. During the Cultural Revolution, Douzi was brutally beaten and was humiliated by the Red Guards. Douzi was treated this way because his adversaries believed in the traditional gay stereotypes. According to the ...
- 1512: Mandan Indians
- ... long piece of hide, that would suspend him in the air from the central beams of the medicine lodge. Once the boy was rendered unconscious, he was lowered to the ground to regain consciousness without harassment from others. The objective of the ceremony was to test a man’s endurance and strength to insure he was indeed worthy of becoming a warrior. The Mandan Indians are also known for the fact ...
- 1513: Hippie Culture
- ... received assistance from the Committee to Aid American War Objectors. The committee helped the young immigrants with advice and aid on the Canadian immigration laws. For those who didn’t flee, life was full of harassment from the Government. Popular music and literature help display this message of repression. Jimi Hendrix released a song titled "If 6 was 9" that described his oppression: "White collared conservative flashing down the street/Pointing ...
- 1514: African-Americans In The South
- ... in slavery. People often chose their own partners, lived under the same roof, raised children together, and protected each other. Brutal treatment at the hands of slaveholders, however, threatened black family life. Enslaved women experienced sexual exploitation at the hands of slaveholders and overseers. Bondspeople lived with the constant fear of being sold away from their loved ones, with no chance of reunion. Historians estimate that most bondspeople were sold at ...
- 1515: Walt Whitman
- ... 11). Yet, the world was not ready for Whitman’s celebration of the human body and spirit, nor for his candor, brilliance, and prophetic view. People had mixed emotions about Leaves of Grass because its sexual themes were too shocking for the naive public. It had been largely ignored by many people, but had also been largely praised. (Lowen, Nancy- page 22). Emerson also said, "It’s a great start to ...
- 1516: Tenskwatawa
- ... leaders such as Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison. Tenskwatawa soon attracted a considerable following, especially among the younger, more radical warriors. The Prophet and Tecumseh decided to move these followers farther away from the harassment of white settlers and closer to undisturbed food sources. They established a new village at the point where the Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers meet in northwestern Indiana. The settlers called it Prophet's Town while ...
- 1517: Slavery - Life On The Plantations
- ... tattle on other slaves (Starobin 63). Most house slaves lived in the same house as the master (Ploski and Williams 1438). The majority of house servants were women; therefore, they were open and vulnerable to sexual abuse. They were unsafe from lusty masters and overseers, even fellow slave men, who ignored state laws against rape. Powerless women were forced into prostitution. The slave woman suffered most by the white "fiends who ...
- 1518: Native Americans
- ... Pano Creek, where 100s of Indians swarmed over Fettterman and his troops and wiped them out. Fetterman’s massacre was not a major engagement, but it was like an exclamation point in the war of harassment that Red Cloud had pursued and would continue to press for months to come. All the whites in the east and west wanted peace, but Red Cloud would not grant it. The Sioux Chief demanded ...
- 1519: Native American Women
- ... performed their daily labors with observable equality because the men did not go out on grueling expeditions as did the men in the Northeast and Plains. In California, the Great Basin, and Northwest Coast, the sexual division of labor fell somewhere between these two variations. Women had certain common tasks in each of the U.S. culture areas: cleaning and maintaining the living quarters, tending to children, gathering edible plants, pounding ...
- 1520: The Battle Of Little Big Horn
- ... away the Sioux's greatest religious ceremony. General Sherman, never known as an Indian lover, said a reservation was "a parcel of land inhabited by Indians and surrounded by thieves" (Matthiessen 17). This type of harassment did not stop. In 1887 the General Allotment Act (the Dawes Act) was passed. This Act was designed to assist the Indians to mainstream into America. Each male Indian was given 160 acres of land ...
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