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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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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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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When white settlers came to this vast country, which was inhabited by peaceful and prosperous Native American tribes, they decided that their way of life was better than the "Indian- way. ... Therefore, Native Americans were forced to live on reservations where poverty was widespread. ... The way of life they had lived by for so many generations was now being taken away with force. ... Most of the people who live there are very poor and do not have any opportunities to money because reservations are located in such desolate places. ... They need to be helped; they need to live on as a comm...

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Sometimes what they had was not enough but they managed to live. ... These ideas of dependency makes the Native Indians doubt their value of life. ... But what is there to live for? ... There is a way Native Americans live, though. ... Victor, on the other hand, used the survival equation to live. ...

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This contrasts with the oldest boy who says nothing although he has a better understanding of her life. ... The dialogue also gives clues about how they culturally live, not so much like Native Americans but more like white men, though the Native American's talk about both with distaste. Although the Native American's live like white men on their plantation, they still hold true to certain rituals when the chief of their tribe dies. ... She was forced to live alone with her father until he died and then she had no one. ... Faulkner told all these stories from his own life experie...

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In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... Throughout Black Elk's life, their community was moved from one place to another, when they reached other destinations after awhile they had to fight whites and to live through loses and hard times. ... By telling the dreams to the village, they powered themselves and were going to fight in small groups relying on spirits to help them in, saying "today is a good day to live". ... Anyhow, the book portrays the life with extensive battles and struggles with the environment, enemi...

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In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... Throughout Black Elk's life, their community was moved from one place to another, when they reached other destinations after awhile they had to fight whites and to live through loses and hard times. ... By telling the dreams to the village, they powered themselves and were going to fight in small groups relying on spirits to help them in, saying "today is a good day to live". ... Anyhow, the book portrays the life with extensive battles and struggles with the environment, enemi...

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Indeed, it was one of the harshest conditions in which any Indian could live. ... The Indians were promised that they would live a better life full of peace and love, were no white settlers would trouble them, were they would not claim their land anymore and they would live forever happy. ... They were promised a better life, a life where they would be better off because they would be left alone with no white men bothering them or intruding into their lands again, and be kept as savages away from the 'civilized' people. ... They had no time to pack up their belongings and travel p...

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They lived in high-rise buildings constructed of adobe bricks (clay and straw). ... Their neighbors, the Apaches lived in small groups. ... Iroquois lived in the eastern forests of the North American continent. ... Many settlers believed that the Natives were savages and that their way of life was of no value. ... Shinnecock Indians used the island for fishing and hunting, but they did not live there. ...

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Wovoka believed that a Messiah told him that the dead would join the living in peace and harmony away from the "whites," and continue to live in their old ways. The Ghost Dance was created as a result to go backwards in time, to escape the life they do not want to live, with buffalos to hunt, and free lands to roam in. ... There were no vivid answers, only military action, since they opposed to view the life of the Indian people (Encyclopedia Encart, p.1). ... I have learned that we live in a world where we concentrate on our needs, and ourselves rather that listening and understa...

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As for Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko is about the Native American life on How they thought was the correct way of living life, such as the way the world is lived today. The Native American life was the way of living the perfect life. ... She also damns abortion, in life today many woman turn to abortion just to avoid being judged, therefore today abortion wouldn't be considered as a solution or even thought of. ... They lived together six months as a holy man and women before the call of the flesh made him elope with one of her followers." ... For centu...

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Curiously and largely unknown to us, the Dakota Sioux in the early nineteenth century lived a life of great balance, reverence, respect, and harmony with nature. ... This is a text rich in ethical analysis; by observing the kinship relationships and way of life of the Dakota Sioux, we are provided with a superb primer in the ethical life. ... Waterlily also traces the cycles of life of an indigenous people. ... Because there was so much they could have learned from the lives of the Dakota Sioux "lessons that would have enabled them to live more completely, more respectfully, more compati...

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Because of poor conditions in the countryside, many natives move to large cities where they can live a better life. Kumalo's idea of the traditional tribal life is no longer important to the people. ... Because of the strong discrimination in society, Absalom does not receive any mercy and will have to live a shortened life. ... The return symbolizes a new beginning for his life. ... His sense of hope gives him a new happiness and optimism about life. ...

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Native Americans, as they came to be known, were a people very much integrated with the land they lived on and saw themselves as a part of it. ... In their cosmology, they were in the godly realm of Paradise, kicked out, and must now live on earth in efforts to prove themselves worthy again by the time of their death. ... Their ceremonies were connected with, as Ruth Underhill notes, "the very fabric of life. ... The early Europeans believed God was the creator of life on earth and as the bible states, that he created humans (Adam and Eve) last so that they might enjoy and basically have domin...

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In The Broken Cord, we see how the alcoholism of Adam's mother left a life long impact on his life, as well as the people in his life. ... With his mother's negligence during the pregnancy Adam will no longer live the life he was born to live. ... It can lead to abuse and disregard of the people in ones life. ... Seeing how much special attention Adam needs in his learning development, it is essential to take a closer look at his education and educational system that surrounds his life. ... As we advance in the book we are constantly reminded of the horrible and haunting impact t...

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Appleby shows how the Americans changed and developed over the years by using real autobiographies of some of the people who lived in this time. ... These beliefs lead way to a whole new political way of life and the rest of Appleby"s book is based on the foundation of change that Jefferson laid for Americans in the future. ... One thing that she could have done to make this book less biased to to include experiences from Slaves and Free Blacks who lived through the years after the American Revolution as well. ... One reason for this is that she has autobiographies involved in her book...

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The Immigrants had to work for almost nothing just to live. ... Life on the farm was very difficult in the closing of the frontier. Some survived and lived to pass their farm down from generation to generation. Others, who had versioned a better future on the frontier moved elsewhere for a better economical life. ... With all the segregation and voting laws life as an African American was a hard struggle and was waiting for a change. ...

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As an illiterate young man with physical disabilities, Sequoyah had a lot to overcome to succeed in life. ... Great North American Indians: Profiles in Life and Leadership. ... This book discusses not only Sequoyahs influences on the culture of the Cherokee people, but also goes in depth about his personal life and how he lived. ... This book lacks details about the early life of Sequoyah, yet is pretty well in depth when it comes to his later life. ... He soon lived with the Arkansas Cherokee who made him a representative of t...

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The Gender Construction of Women in Early America Life was difficult in the early colonization of North America by the Europeans. The Native people were being forced off the land they had lived on for thousands of years, and forced to adopt they ways of the colonizers. The African people were being captured and brought to the Americas for a life of slavery. ... (Kerber and De Hart 44) Depending on where she lived, her economic status and age; a woman's daily tasks and duties would have differed, just as they do today. ... They were far from any urban area and lived in slave quart...

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This is a book that kids who thinks there life is horrible. ... I want this person to live in an area for centuries and then have some strange people they don't know kill them unmercifully. ... They always had to run from these "white men" for their life. ... When I can live my life everyday with this philosophy I will be a much better person. ... In 1868, at the Medicine Lodge the Cheyenne, the Kiowas, the Comanches, and the Arapos all agreed to live in a reservation just below the Powder River. ...

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Even though the indigenous people suffered great loss in land and culture their pride and traditions live on. ... These stories told Natives how to live their daily life and how to treat others. ... True narratives usually included a collection of religious beliefs including the tale of the origin of life. ... The first novel published by him was The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California Bandit in 1854. ... It was an autobiography in which someone wrote down the life story of an older Indian. ...

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• Grade Level: High School