Symbolism is used throughout the entire novel Return of the Native to create a sense of conflict and suspense. ... He begins to hate his job there in Paris and decides to return to the Heath in search of something he believes more meaningful and wishes to settle down in a more rural environment. ... Yeobright, Clym's mother, wants Clym to return to Paris because she believes he will be happier there and has a chance to make money. ... She hopes that because Clym returned to the Heath that one day he will hopefully go back to Paris. ... Although she had a chance to return to Budmouth, ...

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Despite the Native American's resistance the Spanish ultimately prevailed. ... As well as, French Colonists in present day Canada and the allied Native Americans. ... The French gave the Native Americans glass beads, metal tools, weapons, kettles, and woolen cloth for clothing, in return for the Native's valuable pelts. ... The Huron Confederacy was a local Native American tribe. ... In 1632 the Jesuits returned to New France in order to establish missions. ...

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Throughout "The return of the native", Thomas Hardy is very successful in showing how the heath is untamable and becomes what each character wants it to be. ... Hardy shows, throughout "The return of The Native", that he is successful in drawing up images inside the readers mind. ...

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The Native Americans were a group that kept no written records. ... Another common feature of Native American traditions is creation myths. ... So they wept, because no on would answer them, and they couldn't return to their former place. ... The Native American Church formed in 1921, beginning in Oklahoma. ... The Native American Church came to the Indians during their darkest hour. ...

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Native American History What is often referred to as the Native American population is actually comprised of over 500 unique tribes (Jackson, 1995). ... In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. ... Native Americans had much the same experience in the late 19th century. ... One myth is that Native American is the preferred term. While in this paper, as well as many academic papers Native American is the preferred term, within conversation even among Native Americans terms such as American I...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his novel, The Return of the Native, Hardy uses a lot of different techniques that seem to carry over to his other works, including a good amount of very dark symbolism and imagery that portrays his fatalistic view on life, he uses irony consistently, he carries a motif of fate and fatalistic ideas throughout the novel, and he uses a lot of metaphorical language. ...

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The government took Native American land for the pioneers and moved them to reservations. They also made them be more American and less Native American. ... Helen Hunt Jackson was an activist for Native Americans. ... When he went to Washington, D.C. to try to convince the congress-men and cabinet members to let them return to their tribal lands. ... Some Native Americans adopted white ways and some did not. ...

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Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the war. The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. U.S. policies of the 1880's and 1890's attempted to force American culture and education on Native Indians in an effort to form a docile relationship. ... While current laws and statues have attempted to correct past injustices of native Indians by returning lost homeland and su...

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Many of the characters in The Return of the Native are deeply flawed, and exhibit many ambiguous motivations. ... People think he is low on the social scale, but he can at any time return to being a successful farmer. ... All of the characters in The Return Of the Native were deeply intriguing and tragically flawed, including those unmentioned, like Mrs. ...

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Before he returned with more men, a vast number of Aztecs suffered and died of smallpox because there bodies had no natural immunities to it. Smallpox was not only seen by the Aztecs, but became a problem for many other Native Americans as well. ... The European's overall desire for god, gold, and glory had horrible effects upon the Native American's as well. ... In other ways the Europeans greed negatively affected the Native American's, too. ... The land that was once tribal land for the Native Americans were quickly overrun by Europeans, and because they saw the Native Americ...

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Enraged by what king did, the colonist resolved this by disguising themselves as Native Americans and dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into the ocean. ... When they met the Native Americans, they survived through their friendship and began having good relations with them. However, over time, the colonist's and the Native American's relationship became rocky when there were many bad rumors going around. The colonist became more aggressive; being greedy in taking more land and deterred the Native's trust when the Pilgrims first attacked them in 1623. In return, to keep up with their p...

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Calling ourselves Americans is basically a lie since we are not Natives to this land. Some even try to justify these actions on Natives by pointing out that the Native Americans had attacked and raided on American settlements. ... Native Americans did not understand European ideology. Native Americans had no idea why the Europeans could fight for land, "Death makes us owners of nothing is what the Native Americans believed. ... Various tribes of Indians fought on the side of the United States against their Indian brothers in return for promised protection against removal, government promises p...

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These views that the first settlers had of the Native Americans influenced the way that many people categorized Native Americans throughout history. ... The settlers did not even give the Native American religions a chance they set out on a mission to save the Native Americans by helping them find their God, they basically were taking away the Native Americans freedom to their own religious beliefs. ... The Native Americans also looked different than the settlers. ... That is one of the major factors in the perspective that white man often has regarding Native Americans, they group all ...

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The Native Americans were a group that kept no written records. ... Another common feature of Native American traditions is creation myths. ... So they wept, because no on would answer them, and they couldn't return to their former place. ... The Native Americans were a very diverse peoples that many different aspects of religion that varied from tribe to tribe. Interestingly, the Native Americans did not have a concept of individual sin and salvation. ...

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They have not seen a Native American before. ... They also needed the Natives for trading. When the need for Native American's help ended the Pilgrim's began to treat the Native Americans with less and less respect. ... Thomas Dermer gave Squanto to Massasoit in return for a Frenchman. ... The Pilgrims sometime took land from the Native Americans by taking advantage of the Native Americans. ...

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Instead of gold, he found a group of Native Americans. ... Beginning at the time Columbus met the natives, he planned on using them as slaves. ... "Appalled by the Spanish treatment of the Indians, in 1537 Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain to publish an account of his experiences and to urge a more generous policy upon the crown " ("Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca "). ... Upon his return to Spain he was convicted of malfeasance- perhaps because of his kind treatment towards the Indians ("Narváez Expedition, 1528 "). ... Columbus did not see any use in the natives and took advantage of ...

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Cultural interaction had allowed for the impending impact to be staved off for a little longer – some Native Americans were employed as day laborers by the English, and some indentured servants had fled their English masters to Native American villages. ... Stockholders of the Virginia Company were expecting to receive a return on their investments, and the company intended to make this happen in a variety of ways, including the discovery of gold and other valuable minerals, trade with Native Americans, the production of forest products which would be used by the English Navy, the develo...

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Learning to Transform When asked to explore the relationship between learning and transformation in the Native oral tradition one has to wonder. ... The correlation between learning and transformation in the native oral tradition has a duel nature. ... In each story Natives learn that both Salmon and Deer live as humans in their own worlds. The stories teach the Natives that both animals sacrifice themselves to feed people. If the Natives respect these animals by saving all their bones and returning them to the water the animals will come back to life. ...

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The land grab and expansion west placed all native Americans into harms way. ... The quest for more land and gold were the driving force behind the destruction of the Native Americans. ... The tribes were remove from their native homelands and force into reservations. ... Many Indians claimed different ethnicity, and only later to returned to identify their true heritage. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it betters the quality of life for Native Americans living of reservations...

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The Native Americans were a group that kept no written records. ... So they wept, because no on would answer them, and they couldn't return to their former place. ... The Native American Church formed in 1921, beginning in Oklahoma. ... The Native American Church came to the Indians during their darkest hour. ... The formation of this religion was a response to the degraded status on Native Americans. ...

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In return, the Native Americans were "sentenced" to the American wasteland, better known as Oklahoma. ... In addition to this the natives were our trading partners. ... Armed Native Americans killed as many as 1000 English. ... The natives this time allied themselves with the British. ... Therefore, the natives fought against the American patriots. ...

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Each tribe had different words in their native tongue to describe nature. ... Certain aspects of Native American culture seem to be overplayed in the short stories. ... the loss and almost mocking of the native culture and tradition. The mother and the brother do not believe in the child's willingness to return to nature to save their culture. The child's intuition and ties with nature seem to me at least, in the past, to have been on what the Native American culture was based. ...

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It was amazing to see what each writer had to say about the natives they encountered. ... Columbus, being an explorer working with the money of others, was eager to discover new worlds and find something of value to return to his benefactors. ... In many of the islands the natives went about naked, just as their mothers brought them forth. ... While the natives numbered about 5000, they consisted mostly of women and children. These natives were a mixed group of people. ...

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The Europeans wanted all of the Native Indian's land so the only way to get the land was to get rid of the Native Indians, an ethnic group. ... Besides food, the Native Americans were always short of money. ... There is a way Native Americans live, though. ... First, an American sees little value in the Native Americans, then Native Americans being see the little value for each other. Americans would not care if the value of Native Americans are clear because they want the Native Indians to disappear into history. ...

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In its 1992 decision in Mabo v QLD (No 2), the High Court rejected the doctrine that Australia was 'terra nullius', but held that Australia was a settled colony in which the common law recognised native title to land. ... Although the indigenous inhabitants became subjects of the Crown when the British Crown acquired sovereignty over the particular part of Australia which they occupied, their native title to land survived the Crown's acquisition of the sovereignty and radical title, subject to extinguishment by a valid exercise of the sovereign power. ... The power enabled...

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