Native Americans are the indigenous people of the America's and they had to endure some major changes to their lifestyles due to the arrival of the Europeans. ... Native Americans have done an admirable job of holding on to their native culture. ... As a more socially tolerant America has arisen most Native Americans are enjoying a better life both on and off the reservations. ... As more Americans come in contact with Native Americans, many will realize just how ridiculous these misconceptions are. ... Generally, the sociological terms discussed started out as negatives f...

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In the New World, Native Americans had long been developing society and tools at their own pace. ... The Native Americans and Europeans lived different lifestyles, as they had extremely different cultures and technologies. ... A certain woman, Mary Rowlandson, among other people, described the time spent with Native Americans as savage or animalistic. ... The methods of food collection and production also varied between the Europeans and the Native Americans, due to the underdeveloped material culture in the Americas. ... Lack of material culture development and advancement in the Americas led...

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When you look at a Native American`s life, you can see very clearly that culture is a huge part of their life. ... Since the Europeans came in to America, the natives have been being treated as the inferior race. ... Between 2008-2010 the graduation rate for Native Americans dropped from 54% to 50%. When Native American students comprise less than 1% of the U.S public school system, that means that very few Natives are graduating high school. ... The Native American languages used to be spoken all throughout America, but after Columbus and the Europeans came that changed. ...

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Appropriation of the Native American culture in fashion merchandisers has degraded the significance and power behind each element of the Native identity. ... They way that fashion industry has interpreted Native American culture and/or style, has influenced the way Americans now think of Indians. ... For example, Victoria Secret presented a bathing suit inspired by the Native American culture. ... The Native American culture holds a lot of value in their clothing making process. ... They have promoted misconceptions of the Native American's cultural history. ...

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The Native American tribes and Nations are perceived to be the first people on the continental America. ... As time went on, Native American populations shrunk while the settler's populations expanded. ... During the American Revolution, native America's played a vital role in the war. ... Today, Native Americans are as entrenched in the community as much as almost everyone else is. ... Is it fair for Indian Americans and the descendants of the great Native American nations, be granted sovereignty within the borders of the USA? ...

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In general, however, Native Americans are portrayed as a form of civilized wildlife. ... This naturally led to plenty of misunderstandings between the emigrants and Native Americans. ... There were many instances when Native Americans would risk their lives in order to save drowning Americans (72,79). ... The American emigrants would have never been able to complete their journeys without the vital aid provided by the Native Americans. ... These narratives seldom mentioned the social interactions that occurred between the Americans and the Native American tribes. ...

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While "progress" was great for some, it also spelled the end of hundred of years of Native American tradition. ... Conflict between whites settlers and Native Americans had been around since the earliest settlements. ... Native Americans were increasingly pushed off their lands and forced onto reservations. ... At the same time, whites pressured Native Americans to assimilate. ... " It became clear that maintaining the Native American ways, even on reservations, was not going to be an option. ...

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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. ... Native American History What is often referred to as the Native American population is actually comprised of over 500 unique tribes (Jackson, 1995). ... African American History with Native American Comparisons While Native Americans were fighting for their land from encroaching settlers, Africans were being captured and brought to America. ... One myth is that Native American is the prefer...

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Throughout North America the tribes and cultures of Native Americans varied according to their geographical location. ... Despite the Native American's resistance the Spanish ultimately prevailed. ... As well as, French Colonists in present day Canada and the allied Native Americans. More often than not, the battles that ensued were more harmful to the Native Americans. ... The Huron Confederacy was a local Native American tribe. ...

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The culture of the Native Americans has definitely not been an exception to this over the past years in America's history. ... From religion, to clothing, and even Native American food, the culture is just not the same as it once was. ... The Native Americans lived a very simple and peaceful way of life. ... When the European settlers arrived in America, their western way of life completely clashed with Native American culture. ... The Native Americans were often slaughtered by the Europeans, drastically declining their population. ...

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Today, Native Americans are citizens of the United States. ... In those days, about a million of Native Americans lived in North America (Brookeman, 2005). ... American Indians, or Native Americans first came to North America during the last ice age. ... The new diplomatic agreements poorly represented interests of Native Americans if at all (Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans, 2015). Thus, American Revolution had a great impact on Native American population. ...

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"Before 1492 Native Americans had never been exposed to smallpox, measles, malaria, or yellow fever". ... However, Native Americans had a broad spectrum of beliefs such as spiritualism, animalism and the Great Spirit. ... Native Americans rituals for death vary from tribe to tribe. ... Europeans had a different effect on the war than the Native Americans did. ... However, the Native Americans thought that wars were proof of manhood and strength. ...

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According to the statistic punished by government called "American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2011", the population of Native American in 2010 is about "2.9 million were American Indian and Alaska Native only, and 2.3 million were American Indian and Alaska Native in combination with one or more other races" (American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2011). ... Why does the population of Native Americans like this? Where are those Native American? ... In my perspective, I think the American governments were trying to exterminate Nativ...

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" Although the Native Americans used every part of the Buffalo when they hunted them. The Native Americans adapted the various parts of the Buffalo to be used at all times. ... As Native Americans hunted for Buffalo, they encountered other tribes, either hostile or beneficial to both of the tribes. ... While the Native Americans reached each herd of Buffalo, they would kill a few at a time until the whole herd was exterminated. Each time a Buffalo was killed, the Native Americans considered the skulls to be sacred, and used them in many rituals. ...

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After Americans won the war with Mexico in the 1840s, Americans began encroaching on land that Indians of the southwest regarded as theirs. ... When the Spaniards first came to the area many years before the local native populations thrived. ... The Americans depicted the Indians as degenerate and primitive, no better than wild animals. This resulted with miners, settlers, and volunteer companies to organize and hunt down Native Americans in systematic campaigns of extermination to all that stood in the way of their progress objectives, and goals. ... Although meant to benefit the Native Ameri...

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African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. ... One image shows the Native Americans hunting in the open land. ... There was a connection to the earth that the Native Americans felt. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ...

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"In Minnesota, Thousands of Native Americans Protest Redskins' Name." ... . Paul Lukas was covering a symposium about the use of Native American imagery in sports. ... American Indian, Begay who is vice president of the Native American journal Association is worried what the term "redskin " will become. ... "Washington Redskins Feel Heat in Native American Mascot Debate." ...

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There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. ... To begin, one of the problems expressed in the book, is the living conditions of the Native Americans, this a huge problem because majority Native Americans live in low quality houses, this are major problem because it has a huge impact on the family and the community. In the Meriam Report it states that "The Native Americans are easily sickened because they are closer together.... Based off of these fact people can conclude tha...

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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. ... I think in the beginning of the introduction of the Movie the film did not go into detail why natives had an extreme hatred for white settlers occupying their lands, I think the film did not explain why Native American were so opposed to white Settlement on their lands and portrayed the Native American as the aggressors and Heartless Killers in the wild west. Native American were...

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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. ... " The Government and the Pioneers took everything from the Native Americans and left them with nothing. ... Helen Hunt Jackson was an activist for Native Americans. ... Some Native Americans adopted white ways and some did not. ...

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The Native Americans were a group that kept no written records. ... "By and large, however, [Native Americans] believed that the aid of the high god may be propitiated by ritual action (p.62 Nigosian)." ... Another common feature of Native American traditions is creation myths. ... 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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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. As American expansion continued West following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Native Indians were seen as a nuisance impeding t...

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However, the Native American's influenced the white men in more ways than many realize. ... Most of the Native American traditions distinguish between songs and narratives. ... Original Native American stories were performed orally in the native language of their tribe. ... The oration of stories and legends was very important to Native American writers. ... In the 1920's the Native American authors started turning to the novel. ...

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Impact of European Invasion on Native American Cultures In 1492, Christopher Columbus set upon his voyage to the far east, but ended up reaching a "new and untamed" land. ... This period, rightly named The Age of Discovery, brought about riches to the European countries who exploited the new world, but also had a huge impact on the Native American cultures of this time. ... Because of this, Native Americans lacked any immunities to dieases brought by the Europeans. ... Native Americans enjoyed vast territories that were unplundered and unspoiled. ... The ravaging of the Native Amer...

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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. ... After the independence from England America turned its attention toward Native Americans who were in the way of expansion. ... The quest for more land and gold were the driving force behind the destruction of the Native Americans. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it betters the quality of life for Nati...

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