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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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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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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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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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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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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Cronon states, "Toward the middle of the month, Indian populations moved inland to smaller creeks, where eels could be caught as they returned from their spawning in the sea." ( Cronon, 40 ). ... The main idea of the Native Americans was simply that there were certain times of the year for particular crops. ... This explains why the Native Americans moved when the seasons started to change. ... It returned nutrients into the soil and also created and edge in the forest where wildlife could sustain. ... An approach far more invasive than that of the Native Americans. ...

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Throughout the story, the young Native American encounters a foreign concept, what he perceives as "civilization", and wants to return to a more familiar and understanding place - the great outdoors. ... They don't conform to society and never will; they are unlike the narrator who will eventually return to his people. ... While he does not conform and is eventually accepted back into his tribe and people, many of his fellow Native Americans conform into society. Whitecloud uses this situation of a Native American in White society as an example showing the differences between c...

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For the Native Americans to break free of their nomadic ways they needed to cultivate a stable food source. ... Also the Native Americans were faced with the problems of forming a government. ... Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide your for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right" (P.26). ... The battles between the Native Americans and the Europeans continued for some time. ... The Native Americans intention was to kill John Smith once captured. ...

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POCAHONTAS: Native American Stereotypes in a Disney Movie 1. ... We will particularly examine how Disney portrays the Native Americans in the movie and whether stereotypes are used. ... Particular attention will be given to the images of Native American women. ... For the purpose of this paper, the storyline of Pocahontas needs to be compared to the actual facts of the Native American girl's life and her encounter with white society. ... Her son, who was raised by an uncle in England, returned to his mother's land, where he made his fortune growing tobacco. ...

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One part of the Spanish conquest of the Americas focused on religion: on their need to convert Native Americans to the one true religion. ... Not only did the Spanish get the Native Americans to convert, they also got them to be their employees. Having the Native Americans do the work that the Spanish settlers didn't want to do. ... It wasn't a mistake that they settled in the Americas with the Native Americans. ... Spanish settlers became powerful in the Americas and were able to get the Native people to work for them and in return they taught them the proper religion. ...

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Although the people made the Articles this way because they didn't want to return to a strong central government like the one they had just escaped from in Britain, they didn't realize the conflicts it would cause. ... The Articles of Confederation was ineffective in solving the US's problems with the British, Native Americans, and Spanish. ... A few British anti-federalists in the west along with the Spanish were persuading Native Americans that the Americans were evil, so this caused more wars and conflicts with Native Americans. ... The Articles of Confederation was ultimatel...

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That image changed in recent years to a more sympathetic feeling toward Native Americans. ... Native American authors have shown this for a few years. ... Both authors indicate how the Native American of today has been forcibly separated from the land and thought of his ancestors and what a devastating effect this has had on Native American society. ... Endrich gives the unique perspective of mixed blood on her views of the Native American cultural identity. ... Lyman damages the car to try and help Henry return to his old self. ...

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