... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... to reservations. Many factors could have caused this rapid genocide. There were social, biological, spiritual, and moral differences between the two converging cultures that caused one to overcome another. Studying Native American literature can help us see how these dissimilarities, and what lead to the downfall of the red-man. There is one theory of "social Darwinism" that may account for the ... understood that everyone was treated fairly. It was not uncommon for men to have more than one wife, such as in The Problem of Old Harjo. In this story, Harjo, a Native American with two wive...

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... in 5 the United States was tragic (Mason, et al.). The modern world has yet to utilize fully the gifts of the American Indians. Some medicines and foods are just a few of the things used today that are Native American in origin. Old World doctors had various potions, plasters, odd forms of surgery, and leeches with which to treat diseases and control a few of ... the Mohicans, Pocahontas, and Natural Born Killers, and as an activist he hopes to bring attention to the government's broken promises, and treaties with the American Indians. AIM wants people to know that the situations for Na...

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... , attempts to "Americanize" Indians only hastened the death of their culture and presence in the America. The intent in the policy, after the end of aggression, was to integrate Native Americans into American society. Many attempts at this were made, ranging from offering citizenship to granting lands to Indians. All of these attempts were in vain, however, because the result of this ... 1862. Sioux, angered by the loss of much of their land, killed 5 white Americans. What resulted was over 1,000 deaths, of white and Native Americans. From that point on, American policy was to force Indi...

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... those practices to the current condition of the American Indiana. European colonialism uprooted and almost completely destroyed the North American indigenous population. The land grab and expansion west placed all native Americans into harms way. The establishment of the United States of America would be the defining point for the Native American Indians because this created a government with colonial motivation ... . According to Aguirre and Turner American Ethnicity, in order to create internal colonies government must actively participate and provide coercive force need to control tho...

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... these fact there is not enough family support and the teenagers are not getting the help that they need. Finally, the family expectations are too high so that if a young Native American becomes successful outside of the rez, they expectations will drive them away because they will not want to be around an environment like that. It's like at thanksgiving when people ... fact leaving the rez can be very complicated and frustrating for some people and it is a very delicate process. Finally, another huge problem in the Native American community is the overall health this is a big issue beca...

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... of nature, which they thought was an evidence of God's power. Westward movement, which often involved the violent displacement of native people, was stimulated by the concept of Manifest Destiny, the divine right of white Americans to settle the whole North American continent. Painters, awed by the country's magnificent and exotic beauty, filled their scenes with radiant light, thus implying that God ... instrument of land speculation. Since they saw in art a way of promoting their companies, railroad lines owners, tradesmen and bankers wholly supported the American Union Art. In John Ga...

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... the mid-1900's, the murder and poor treatment of Native American Indians by the Unites States Government never subsided. Euro-Americans made Native American Indians inferior to them by denying justice, making the Native Americans second class citizens and forcing them to simulate the American culture Euro-Americans took property away from American Indians. The trouble for the American Indian began when, with all the new land ... acquired, many Euro Americans headed to the west and mid-west to settle. During these settlements, the Native American Indian competed for the same land and reso...

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... A 2001 study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported the following rates of participation in a variety of high-risk behaviors among Native American youth aged 12 to 17 years in 1999-2000. Illicit drug use by American Indian Youths was more than twice as high as the national average. - Binge alcohol use was higher (13.8%) than the national average (10 ... angry or uncomfortable, many Indians remain silent. Non-Indians sometimes view this trait as indifference, when in reality, it is a very deeply embedded form of Indian interpersonal etiquette. In Native American lif...

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... disobeyed my parents and went to the park all by myself. After she told me about the trolls, I very rarely disobeyed my parents again. In Native American culture, many stories teach a lesson. Many times these stories are aimed at children to teach them about things they aren't supposed to do. There is ... drive up to Frankfort and stay at our house. The same house my great great grandfather built. Creation stories are a very important part of the Native American culture. These stories tell different tribes where they came from. They give a culture their identity and purpose. Creation sto...

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... . More commonly though, tribes used it as a method to reduce fevers. Perhaps the most commonly associated aspect of Native American healing is the spiritual factor. Native American healing goes hand in hand with with spirituality by incorporating spiritual practices (North Carolina 14). For thousands of years, Native American groups had an individual who restored health. Each group had its own term for this person, medicine man ... Carolina 14). They believed that objects or substances such as herbs, had the power to utilize spiritual energy. The Native Americans were not truly aware of ...

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... picked this film because I thought it was a realistic portrayal of how the west was lost for Native American by The Policies and Procedures of the United States Government in the 20TH Century. I think Most Cowboy and Indian Films prior to Dances with Wolfs portrayed Native American as Heartless Killers, Savages and Finally Human Beings. In the film dances with wolves Non-natives portrayed ... a lot of stereotyping against Native American tribes. Throughout the movie Native American are shown scalping non-natives and celebrating for there victory. The tribes attacked the non-natives ... ...

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... Smoke Signals. The film is credited be the first movie that has been produced, directed, and even has actors of Native American origin. The creative brains behind such a masterpiece are its director (Chris Eyre) and Script writer (Sherman Alexie). The ... movie which hit screens in the year 1998 has two unique aspects to it – one being an historical milestone in the development of Native American Cinema, and second being a movie that has brought in innovation in terms of cinematic storytelling. Smoke Signals, rather than being a cohesive screenplay, is more ... shattered because of al...

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... immigrant family living in New York in the 1930's; Richard Wright's Native Son is a story about an African American man, in his 20's, who lives in Chicago. Both set in heavily populated, low-income neighborhoods. The protagonists of both stories, Bigger in Native Son and Sara in Bread Givers, struggle to find their way in ... versus himself. The conflict is supported by Bigger's difficulty to be happy with who he is. In Bread Givers, Sara's journey to becoming an American was difficult. Being an immigrant surrounded by no one but other immigrants, it is understandable why she found it s...

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... Americans. In the letter "The First Americans,"" the Grand Council of Fire writes a letter to the mayor of Chicago explaining as to how the Native Americans are being wrongly interpreted in American history. The Council explains how the Native Americans had a much larger role and are not necessarily the villains. They then go on to explain in detail what it is that the ... . Out of these two excerpts, I strongly feel that the Grand Council does a more effective job at giving more logical reasons and they convince me more that Native Americans really should be fairly represented in Americ...

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