It is through these surviving traditions stories of early times are salvaged. ... Besides the translations of oral stories and legends from early Native Americans come pieces written by Indian authors about history. ... This history of literature goes along with the history of the white migration across the United States. ... The literary history of American Indian writers started in the 1850s with John Rollin Ridge's publications. ... He attempted to show his white audience the world views, customs, literature, and history of the Indians and though this, hoped white Americans might a...

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The two clearly split economic systems did not only affect whites, but also other subordinate racial groups as well; for example, black Americans' suffering under slavery, Native Americans' forcible removal, and Mexican Americans' experience of discrimination all have a lot to do with it. ... Native Americans were actually not given many choices. ... At that time, many Americans believed in manifest destiny that American was destined to expand across and occupy all territories that now constitute the continental United States. ... In sum, the early 19th century history was a hi...

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"Before the arrival of the white man, North America was inhabited by a mere 600,000 Indians. ... Gibson, The American Indian, p.9). ... The Native American women were well respected and given plenty of freedom. ... They were often taught from an early age to work in the home and even the fields. " In Spring, both men and women worked in the fields planting the crops, but thereafter the women were expected to do all the hoeing on their own" (M. ... Although few histories of the European settlements in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have acknowledged it, women played...

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By examining the issues such as race, religion, and gender between minority groups, one can better understand the history of United States territorial expansion. ... They believed some of the earlier treaties signed with the United States were invalid or unjust (Document 11). ... According to Greenberg, "in order to ˜prove' that Anglo " Saxons were destined to dominate lesser races, leading scientists of the antebellum era, many from the South, posited theories of racial difference that expanded on earlier ideas of a racial hierarchy " (Greenberg 18). ... However, discrimina...

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"Founding Brothers" had a structure somewhat like a wheel; each chapter telling stories, the spokes of the wheel, of the problems dealt with by the U.S. government and its founding fathers, which congealed on the center point that early United States history was burdened with conflict. ... This question of slavery was a main reason why early America was so fragmented and prone to implosion. ... America was fractured and each state was separated by ideals and ideologies. ... Many other works don't go into as much depth and as a result you lose the full significance of what occurr...

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The Plight of The North American Indians The history and culture of the American Indian is sadly misrepresented because of culture biases and inaccurate reports. ... Archeological evidence indicates early Indian cultures existed 10,000 BC. But the questions that still remains, how did early Indians arrive on the North America continent. ... Archeological evidence indicates early Indian cultures existed 10,000 BC. But the questions that still remains, how did early Indians arrive on the North America continent. ...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. ... While many Americans consider slavery and the indirect genocide of the Indians to be regrettable, but concluded chapters of American history, the ethnocentrism that spawned those two phenomena is still alive in modern culture. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... The rise in international trade of b...

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Massacre of Wounded Knee The reason that it interested me was because in one of my history classes, a student in my class was Native American. ... According to Dee Alexander Brown, author of Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, suggests that many of the early protests which took place in 1890 was due from early preaches of an Paiute shaman called Wovoka. ... Sturgis, author of Brutal History, she believes that the conflict is still occurring in the today's society. ... American Indian relations, new investigations of the history between whites and American Indians are needed. ... Tha...

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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. ... (Aguirre & Turner p.28) American history easily provides us with the facts and intentions of early American settlers. After the independence from England America turned its attention toward Native Americans who were in the way of expansion. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it betters the quality of lif...

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The Literature of Colonial America 1620-1776 The Religious Background The early religion of the colonies was one based primarily on Puritan dogma. ... Among these early Puritans were the fabled pilgrims who founded Plymouth colony and countless others that followed. ... Native Americans The Puritan relationship with the early Americans was tenuous at best and downright vicious at worst. ... The early southern writers were farmers merchants and ministers. ... The oral history of the African slaves was becoming infused with their new American experiences. ...

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This stream has a long and rich history. ... This history can be separated into four eras, the time before the Native Americans, Arrival of the Salty Men, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Times. ... This Native Americans lead a very peaceful life. ... And finally early stages of water pollution appear at Naylor's Run at the mill sites. ... It spans from the early 1900's to the present date. ...

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For example: "The English established settlements on the Atlantic Coast, and the French built towns along the Mississippi River Valley- (p.4-A People's History of The United States-HOWARD ZINN). ... (p.6-A People's History of The United States-HOWARD ZINN) In addition, the arrival of Europeans has also affected animals and trees of the Americas. ... Furthermore, on average Native Americans were bigger and healthier than the Europeans who first encountered them "They were straight and well proportion'd, having the cleanest and most exact Limbs in the world: They are so perfec...

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The flow of Immigration to the United States dramatically increased during the mid 18th century through the early 19th century. ... I believe that the Freed people fared low in rank because of the history before the Civil War. ... During the late 19th century and early 20th century women's typical role was maintaining the household. ... But, at this time in history the women's movement was not large enough and did not receive worldwide support. This would go on until the early 1960s where the war against racism included blacks and Hispanics, but a large portion of women too. ...

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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 is a huge concept of "diversity" in American History. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ... Throughout it's history, American slavery has evolved and changed. ... In the early eighteenth century slaves made up more than seventy percent of the population in only South Carolina, and those slaves lived on holdings of more than twenty-five (Kolchin, 31). ...

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In choosing this exhibit I thought I could learn more about how the Native Americans grew throughout their early years of living in North America, and how different time periods came about because of the changes of culture and religions. ... The museum had the history of the Native Americans broken up into five different time periods: the Paleo Period, Archaic Period, Woodland Period, Mississippian Period, and the Historic Period. ... The burial mounds are a big part in history for the Woodland Period. ... All the battles with the white men and the diseases like small pox is the reason what en...

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Critical differences about cultures, beliefs, and tensions between religion have recurred throughout history. Native Americans lived on this land that we now call America for centuries following their own way of life. ... This changed the Native Americans structure of society and life for the worst. ... A more realistic point of view instead of believing the Bible, explains why this was an idea not considered by the early explorers and settlers. ... Native Americans did not understand Christianity since they believed in their own gods. ...

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Frederick Jackson Turner was a teacher and a scholar in the late 1800's to early 1900's. ... Turner redefined American history by stating that the settlement of the West by white people - "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward" - was the central story of American history. Prior to this statement, the frontier was only a backdrop to American History. ... Turner's thesis statement defined the frontier and brought it to the forefront of American History. ... The Frontier Thesis culturally assumed that the...

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Essay Assignment Between the years of 1860 - 1890, Americans used many methods to take over land that was originally owned by the American Indians. ... At first contact, the Navaho and the Americans got along quite well. ... In the early morning, when the soldiers were asleep, the Navaho " attacked the for from three sides. ... Even though they had complied with the whites requests earlier, now it was not enough. ... The legacy of what went on with the removal of the American Indians from their homeland, is a dark spot in our American History that is not studied enough. ...

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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. ... A assumption often made about Native Americans of today's society is that all Native Americans are alcoholics and d...

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An assumption exists that the "Indians'that inhabited the Americas prior to European inhabitance were a single, primordial race. ... First, the Indian race was as heterogeneous as the continent of Europe across America. ... Due to climate, and isolation each tribe was very different and obviously, due to extended sustain, each race had progressed beyond the simple people for whom history has them pegged. ... The Chesapeake tribes were a tribe that instilled fear into the hearts of the early colonizers because their talents in war were far beyond a primitive level and nati...

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Europeans feel of superiority over the inferior United States culture became disputed in the early nineteenth century. ... Though necessary background and history was required for creating and appreciating European landscapes, in America the only requirement was a deeply felt experience of beauty of nature. ... Documenting History And Society Photography had become an ideal way to record major events in history. One of the negative aspects of early landscape photography was the daguerreotype. ... Evaluation: "Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West" By Eva Weber and Ansel Ad...

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The village of Jamestown became the first permanent English Colony within North America in May 1607. ... Jamestown Settlement seeks to convey the aforementioned information to visitors via several mediums: living history, displays, and film. ... Most significantly, is the living history portion consisting of the James Fort, Powhatan Indian village, and the Settlement's ships area. ... Pocahontas was a pivotal figure in the early days of American History, negotiating the Native American and English landscape, hoping to obtain a peaceful outcome, which would never come for her or her peopl...

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United states politicians are sports fans too the football teams glorious history may indeed stretch back eighty wonderful years, but what intelligent person or even a diehard football fan like me, could seriously argue that eighty years of entertaining football history could ever compare to the thousands of years that the original Americans have inhabited this land?... Just an image of a large Native American face. ... It is not enough that early settlers took their land, but now they make mascots to honor them, so they say. ... Earlier this year, President Barack Obama said if he owned the N...

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The tale has been regarded as the first American short story. ... When we analyze the story with depth the readers see many references to the American history. Irving was called the literary vagabond in England, Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. ... (P.274) This quote shows how Rip Van Winkle interacted with the children of the village, and it tells the reader what the American children in the early 1800s enjoyed playing. ... (P.382) Ironically, the American Independe...

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Comparing American's whole population which is about 300 million people, Native Americans are about 2 percent or less out of it. 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 Native Americans. ... The official time period of it first introduced into the mainland of the America is around the early part of sixteenth century (D' Errico). ...

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