How Native American culture is perceived may have changed, but to those that live on a reservation life may have not changed as much as a person might see form television. ... Erdrich and Alexie both paint reservation life as one that is not concerned with the daily hustle and bustle that is normally associated with life in a big city. The life that they describe more closely resembles one of a small town, or rural country community. ... Alexia has been criticized as portraying Indian life on reservations as demeaning. ... This is often something that a person might not be exposed to without t...

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Compare and Contrast Paper American Life 2 The Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the New World. ... Many tribes used their environment to live and survive. ...

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Immigrants who came to America to start a new life and live the America dream had disadvantages. ... Immigrants who came to America to work and looked to start a new life were interested in working in factories. ... Also immigrants would not know how to live their life like an American. ... Immigrants who were looking to start a new life had to start from scratch in America if they wanted to reach the American dream. ... " These men were living the American dream, individualist who believed money was the most important aspect of life. ...

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Immigrants who came to America to start a new life and live the America dream had disadvantages. ... Immigrants who came to America to work and looked to start a new life were interested in working in factories. ... Also immigrants would not know how to live their life like an American. ... Immigrants who were looking to start a new life had to start from scratch in America if they wanted to reach the American dream. ... " These men were living the American dream, individualist who believed money was the most important aspect of life. ...

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The Native Americans lived a very simple and peaceful way of life. ... Everything lived in harmony together and made up the world they knew. ... They began to establish missionaries where Indians would often work and live. ... Life on the Indian reservations was not so much better than life at the missions. ... The Native Americans lived a peaceful life with amazing values and beliefs, and for the European settlers to come and almost entirely westernize the native culture was extremely devastating to the tribes. ...

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The relationship between learning and transformation in the Native oral tradition was used as a tool to control or survive, to teach one how to be a good person, and to teach one how to live a specific spiritual life. In order to survive and prosper the Indians were forced to live in communities. ... Its fruit is all we have to live on." was the young mans justification for his actions. ... The stories that teach one how to live a good life are quite abundant. ... Stories that teach a person how to live a specific spiritual life show a person how to live in harmony with the earth and those ...

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But after a while he had gotten to be use to them and how they lived their lives. ... He is getting used to all the of people and all of the people are getting used to him. " As my people have always lived. They will live on fish, and clams, and seaweed. ... But that it is changing very slowly into a modern tribe and if they don't start to live they way their ancestors lived that they will lose their traditions and customs and their whole way of life. ... In conclusion this book teaches you about your life and the life around you. ...

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Life on Earth had begun" (P. 18). ... A highly intelligent man who was a firm believer of his views about the way life should be lived. ... When looking at the life of Puritans you see people who live restricted lives and seem to be prisoners of their religion. ... A great example of the way they lived their life was the life of Puritans. ... And women were only expected to live a stifled life in the kitchen raising their children it was a life of concealing their emotions and views. ...

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Their life philosophy is very different from the European, and they care more about being happy than about being rich. ... The Indians do not really get their permission to live like the want to live. ... Piquette did many things to change her life. ... It is about the difference between how the Native Americans live their lives, and how the Europeans live theirs. It is about the values of the different cultures, and it is about different culture's life philosophy. ...

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The Sioux The Sioux Indians lived through out the northern plains of North America. ... The Yankton Sioux, also known as the Nakota, lived in the eastern Dakotas. ... The Sioux way of life revolved around the American bison, or buffalo. ... Today, about half of all Sioux live on reservations in the northern plains. The other half live in urban areas throughout the United States. ...

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Alexie's story talks about the small, shapeless HUD houses they lived in, meals of "the canned beef that even the dogs wouldn't eat" (Alexie 6) and paints a sad picture of a bleak life ridden with poverty and alcoholism on an Indian reservation. ... It helps us to be able to feel what life is like for people who were totally stripped of their culture. ... Memoirs put us in a position where we can really hear the untold story; a position from which we are almost obligated to analyze the effects that the way we live has on other people. ... Another thing memoirs can do is provide us wi...

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" In life everything one does has a positive or negative effect on the surrounding population and environment. ... While both groups lived a life based on sustenance how they gained this is the key factor differentiating them. ... Also, their definition of ownership was based off of their life of sustenance. ... " The native population of New England lived centered around necessities and survival rather than wealth and pleasure. ... This caused them to frown upon the practices of the natives and eventually lead to the destruction of the natives' way of life. ...

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The protagonist, Sara, battles her father and the social norms to escape from home and live a normal life as an immigrant. ... The protagonist, Bigger, falls into a life of crime, murder and running. ... Bigger lived in a time of legal racial segregation. African Americans were forced to live separate from the white people. ... Bigger went to live in the Dalton's home. ...

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The range of tribes was as different as the climates and regions with which they were given to live. The Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific N.W. were a static people that lived in villiages along the coast. This lifestyle was allowed by plentiful supply of fish and plant life, and a system of working the land using fire and other technologies (White Essay). The Iriqouis people of the Northeast were people who allowed themselves the ability to build villages and maintain their way of life in one place. ... The Coast Salish people are a prime example of the extent to which these native trib...

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These major things soon turned to a minor detail once a new form of living human beings were found, and a new form of life was discovered. ... There were six basic areas that these people lived in. ... The Anasazi Indians lived over 1,000 years ago. ... The Woodland Indians lived in wigwams and longhouses. ... They lived in about 200 fairly large villages. ...

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The story began with Ayah in the later years of her life. ... Ayah and her family were poor and lived in a small boxcar shack on a ranch. ... She lived most of her life afraid of white people. ... She lived with her family in a boxcar shack on land that her family did not even own. ... She had to live knowing that her children were being raised by white people and forgetting their Navajo heritage. ...

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However when the Europeans looked at the Indians and how they lived their lives they were confused. ... " (Cronon 33) The Indians lived their life with the mindset of working only for what they needed to survive. ... Their lives were dictated by the natural way of life. ... In order to live in the lands that the Europeans had occupied the Indians of the area were force to embrace this concept of trade. ... " (Cronon XVI) The impacts ranged from crops, animal life, farming and natural diseases ultimately brought the Native American way of life to the brink of extinction. ...

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Archaic North Americans lived off of the land, as did Native Americans after them. ... They lived on a land rich with game and plant life. ... "Native American religions barely recognize the distinction between myth and ritual Indians were eager to embrace ceremonies or portions of ceremonies that provided power to conquer the difficulties of life. ... (Underhill, 7) Given the evidence stated in the textbook and in many different resources, it is safe to say that the Native Americans did indeed hold the land they lived on in very high regard. ... (Harrison, aol.com/pantheism0/Indians) Their...

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She explains many injustices that she, her family, and her people (all indigenous tribes of Guatemala), must have to face, just to be able to live. She lives a life of oppression, which is something that she fights against. ... Rigoberta's family were the leaders of the community of natives, where they lived. ... This world is big, we should try to share it, live in harmony with our earth and with our people. ... That is what I gained from reading her life's events!...

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Eventually they all wanted the same thing, a chance to begin a wealthy and prosperous life with the fortune and opportunity they had all heard of. Hughes seems to imagine back to a time when he dreamed of a land so beautiful and caring in which he could start over be free to live his life as he wishes. ... He states that he wants to live in a place where "opportunity is real, life is free" and "equality is in the air we breathe." ... He realizes that even that if he doesn't live to see the United States become what he wishes, he knows it has already existed, inside of him. ...

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Boone viewed the ongoing battles between the Indians and the white man as a necessary instrument ordained to settle the wilderness, but actually desired to live in peace with the Native Americans. After examining Boone's life and the trials and tribulations he experienced as a trailblazer for the westward movement, it becomes clear why he had an unspoken respect for the Indians. ... This is also mirrored in Boone's life. ... This too can also be compared to the life of the Indians. The Indians lived off the land, hunting and surviving the elements of nature. ...

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Before they started receiving the transmissions, the native people lived their own life. ... They stopped to value their culture as a primary factor in life. ... Television shows world, which is very different from the one Dene Indians live. ... "People lost interest in the native stories, legends, and language, which are really important because they teach people how to live"(Mander pg.105). For many years the story telling was a tradition of Dene family life. ...

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Before they started receiving the transmissions, the native people lived their own life. ... They stopped to value their culture as a primary factor in life. ... Television shows world, which is very different from the one Dene Indians live. ... "People lost interest in the native stories, legends, and language, which are really important because they teach people how to live"(Mander pg.105). For many years the story telling was a tradition of Dene family life. ...

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People are attracted to California's outdoor way of life. ... I have been privileged to live in both North Carolina and California, and have come to the conclusion that I prefer to live in California rather than North Carolina. ... Although California is a great state to live in, the cost is way too expensive. ... Holly wood is where the stars live. ... With few exceptions California is a great place to live. ...

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The big change in his life as a white man was the Sand Creek Massacre. The authors write, "All his life he had felt white arrogance, that smug superiority. ... Through his whole life he felt torn between the two different worlds in which he lives. ... It tells about the life that William Bent and his son George lived during their lives in Colorado. ... Bent continued to live between the two worlds until his death, never being accepted into either of the worlds. ...

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