... including land claims and inequalities in the justice system. Finally, impacts of these issues will be discussed in their relation to the classroom. A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. Each group has had their own unique languages, familial ... land, enforcement over the large swath of land was nearly impossible. By 1870 the ranchers were freely grazing on the reservation (Olson & Wilson, 1986). African American History wit...

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... Indian people, but response of the government which didn't offer the same living environment and care to the whites. Second, the abuse of alcohol also disturbs Native Americans. Alcohol is common to the Native American Teenagers, and the death rate for them is twice bigger as big as it is for other kinds of teenagers (Gone, 450). This situation is a ... 1900 to 2009, and also effects in Indian adults, which is "2.3 times higher comparing with those non-Hispanic whites" (Diabetes in American Indians and Alaska Natives). Those three related major diseases of Native American can be seen as ...

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... Washington Redskins owner says that the name is not meant to be offensive and that they also sing tributes to honor the tribes. Schmidt, Madeline. "Washington Redskins Feel Heat in Native American Mascot Debate." U N I V E R S E. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. . This article is talking about the pressure that teams like the Washington Redskins and Utah Utes of college football are facing to reconsider using ... even if the schools that use them harbor any bad intentions, the images themselves are caricatures that perpetuate stereotypes. The opposing side argued that these names celebrate, rather th...

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... created by the western psyche. Because the viewer is comfortable with this style the composition's message is better understood. Scholder forces his audience to audience to question what this Native American is thinking and feelings and challenges the viewers own thought. The abstract style of the painting is reflective of Picasso, an artist who Scholder credits to being an influence on ... occurs when all the color and line clash together, in his face, reflecting externally the emotional battle taking place internally. The struggle of living in two worlds is what this Native American is...

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... the inhabitants of the New World and how these images have evolved throughout the centuries. Particular attention will be given to the images of Native American women. The third part will deal with the actual movie, discussing the various stereotypes that can be found and relating these to the ... the beginning of the seventeenth century, a time when no written records were kept of events or people's lives, certainly not in the Native American culture. Few recorded details of the life of Pocahontas exist today, and the truth of those that do exist is open to question. ... creation "the...

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... and the colonists, which later founded the U.S., were different in different time periods. Initially, colonists and Native Americans were cooperating together, however, as colonies expanded into Native American land, conflicts arose that resulted into full-blown confrontations. During American Revolution, Native Americans sided with both the British, and colonists, but were seen as enemies. When revolution ended with the ... is much more than in the time when the European settlers first arrived. In those days, about a million of Native Americans lived in North America (Brookeman, 2005)....

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... majority of integration ideas and techniques were more aimed to the needs of blacks in America. Congress's movement of termination slowed and ceased because of many Native Americans crossed tribal lines to protest termination legislation. Native American activists defeated a well organized campaign for termination by using a Cold War claim to indigenous patriotism.The material and moral aspects of the Cold War helped with ... placed in front of the East entrance of the U.S. Capitol from 1853 to 1958. It was a statue of a towering white figure representing civilized strength restraining ...

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... small tribes and nations started merging through intermarriage and economic quasi hunting and farming deals. During this period of merging, splitting and the formation of what are the now major Native American, the modern European by the name of Cristopher Columbus rediscovered the "forgotten" world in 1492. The most likely tribe of contact were the Lucayan-Arawak, and thus was ... see today in huge parts of the US and Canada. Subsequent laws such as the Indian Appropriations act of 1871 quickly forged and legalized the territories as Indian, gave the Native American citizenship rights,...

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... new territories in North America. Not long after the Revolutionary War, the government of the United States began to want to expand into territories that were occupied by European and Native American peoples. Using a Doctrine of Discovery, which was an international law that was started in the 15th century and was used in Colonial America, any land that was discovered or found ... was the one at the forefront of this push to use the Doctrine of Discovery for the exploration of America. Jefferson understood this Doctrine and he used it to move Native American tribes west of the Mississip...

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... was used to generate profits rather than to embrace and pay tribute to the culture. The fashion industry has a large amount of power to influence consumers' wants and desires. The Native American culture holds a lot of value in their clothing making process. They pride themselves in the tremendous amount of work they put into making their clothing. Indians used animal skins, feathers ... from them. Their way of dressing and how the presented themselves to society was connected to individuality of the culture and the roots of their ethnicity. The mass production of Native American inspir...

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... )." Each tribe also had a "culture hero," whose job was to socialize the tribe. In opposition or contrast was the "antihero," or better known as the trickster. Another common feature of Native American traditions is creation myths. "In these imaginative stories, no distinctions are made among gods, spirits, the universe, nature, animals, and human beings. On the contrary, the stories imply a close ... situation that these indigenous people were being faced with. For many, this was exactly what they needed to continue on. Since the beginning, there has been strong opposition to the Native...

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... literature shows life, logic and informative backgrounds of the life of a Native American. Native American literature is important, and there are numerous reasons why. The study of Native American literature has opened the minds of many people. Native American literature is not only informative but entertaining, whether the literature is a wise tale to a contemporary perspective non- ... of the Native Americans culture and life style. Native American literature is a mind opener to many people that non- Native American and unaware of the culture, and life style. Although Native Americans...

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... and culture their pride and traditions live on. It is through these surviving traditions stories of early times are salvaged. Most of the Native American traditions distinguish between songs and narratives. Many also consider prayer as another group of expression (Niatum 30). Contemporary Navajo singer Andrew Natonabah, ... example speaks of how "the stories, the songs, and the prayers come together to form a literature," (Ruoff 2). Original Native American stories were performed orally in the native language of their tribe. They were passed down from generation to generation: grandpare...

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... discrimination while finding themselves in the minority all began to affect their culture. In this discussion we will examine how the aforementioned sociological terms impact the Native American culture today. For the most part, Native Americans have been able to keep most of their traditional clothing and customs intact despite having to vacant their lands for reservations. It is evident even ... aside to make way for the European lifestyles. As America progressed with building a powerful country the needs of the Native American's were often put on the back burner and often ignored. Re...

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... dominant society's understanding of it, the most important perspective of all is conspicuously absent." (Page 19) I find it beautiful that in the Native American culture that art is part of spirituality and that because spirituality is a part of everything the Natives do, that every object, although functional has ... not to have a word for art, as art is very spiritual, and the Great Spirit is in everything. Further demonstrating the connection between Native American Art, Life and Spirituality is another statement from Anna Walters, " My dwellings are round, representing the universal...

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... in the few roles Indian women were portrayed in. Even box-office giants like Rock Hudson, Elvis Prestley, Richard Harris, and Raquel Welch at one point played the role of Native American in a film. The only exceptions were "real" Indians such as Jim Thorpe, Chief Walachie, Red Wing, and Chief Thundercloud (Bataille & Silet). Present In the film industry today, new steps are ... ten years, the film industry has begun to change the way Indians have been portrayed. There are finally movies being made from the perspective of the Native Americans, allowing people to see past history from the...

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... , their lifestyles have only changed slightly over the centuries. One could say that they believe in the phrase, "If it is not broke, do not fix it". The depiction of Native American culture and tradition present in literary works are quite similar to the reality of culture and tradition in an Indian's life. Certain qualities show up frequently, one of those major ... the environment because nothing should go to waste or be spared. The movie, Smoke Signals, shows the important tradition of storytelling from generation to generation among Native Americans, and also the well-known fry brea...

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... of fiction, and Hollywood movies all reinforced the stereotypes of Indian massacres, raids, abductions, thieves, and vagabonds. Occasionally in these narratives, a lone Native American would travel with the hero as a faithful companion. In general, however, Native Americans are portrayed as a form of civilized wildlife. Tate challenges this convention by highlighting the human to human interactions that defined the westward journey ... the traditional narrative of the Western expansion were the exchange of goods and services which provided for safe passage. Most important was the relianc...

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... expanded north into present day Georgia and west through the Florida panhandle. This expansion was short lived due to the strong resistance from the Native American tribes in the area who allied with the French. Despite the frequent attacks from the Indians and the French, the Spanish chose not ... with the English colonists the Algonquians began to release livestock in order to hunt. The colonists did not approve of this and ordered one native american, Metacom (also called Phillip), to remove his livestock from Hog Island. Metacom responded by creating an Algonquian alliance in order to...

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... often, if the family will agree to therapy at all, they prefer to work with someone from their own culture. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the American Native culture. American Natives Given that the family therapist inserts herself into the very fiber of the family, it is absolutely necessary for that therapist to be aware of the cultural issues ... and the struggle to develop identities that honor the traditions of the Indian and non-Indian heritage. Literature indicates that, in comparison to children of other ethnic minority groups, American Native children are at greater ris...

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... liver disease is, in fact, from cirrhosis that is associated with alcoholism according to the National Library of Medicine. They are also detrimental to the security and financial status of Native American families due the high cost of medical expenses related to these illnesses. A person can become an alcoholic because of many different factors. Alcohol use is primarily influenced by attitudes developed ... wine are consumed very quickly. The drinking continues until the participants pass out or the supply is exhausted. Drinking is now an activity that is undertaken for amusement in pr...

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... , or even a rock. Everything lived in harmony together and made up the world they knew. When the European settlers arrived in America, their western way of life completely clashed with Native American culture. Their religion was different, their language was different, and even their clothing and food was entirely different. These two cultures were so contrasting, many Europeans believed that "Indians ... tribe so sacred practices such as those would not be forgotten. Many of these beliefs and activities such as these have been brought into American society by Native Americans through di...

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... their own land, the acts that were committed by Columbus and the Europeans should never be done, it is wrong and immoral. When you look at a Native American`s life, you can see very clearly that culture is a huge part of their life. Natives have a lot of ceremonies that they use throughout time. ... . When you take these ceremonies from them you aren't just taking a routine from them, you are taking a part of their very being. When a Native American does one of these ceremonies to take something from the earth, we don`t do it just to do it, we do it because we see that the ... emotionall...

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... African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. In the Colonial Era, Native Americans had a community with a rich culture that defines them. There is a huge concept of "diversity" in American History. There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. The Southwest, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, Great ... Basin, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic and Subarctic are all areas in which the Native Americans that lived that made ... up the diverse native peoples. The Southwest peoples including the Hohokam,...

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... a school play that is currently being protested in the Viroqua School District, in Viroqua, Wisconsin. The play that is being protested by members of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Native American Student Association, titled "Little Mary Sunshine- was scheduled to run at the Viroqua High School from November 14-16. Because of the protest, the school district has chosen not to ... because of the cultural background shared by teacher and student, thus inferring that an Indian teacher would be better for Indian students. Philips also states that just because a teacher is Native Am...

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