About 6% of New Mexico's population is Indian, but culturally and economically the Indians are significant to the state. ... The U.S. government promised the Indians medical facilities as part of their treaties with Indians. ... New Mexico has 70,000 Indians within the state's population. ... The lifestyle, art, and culture of the Indians in New Mexico has become a tourist attraction for visitors to the state and aided the economy of the area. Local jewelry and art business have taken advantage of the poor economy in the area by purchasing artwork from local Indians and paying low pr...

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And even though these "Indians" are the true enlighteners, the world looks at Indians as uncivilized savages that the Europeans liberated and enlighten with the old world customs when in reality is the other way around. Throughout the years, history hasn't given proper acknowledgment to the American Indians. ... So to put the names of their country high above others, they destroy what seem useless or couldn't imitate and made a "discovery " that was already discovered by the Indians. ... So even though federalism was proposed by an Indian chief, who his people already ran a sim...

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The emphasis is on the ways in which the art of these cultures expresses their belief systems and reflects their origins on mainland Southeast Asia. ... Each group had its own deities and creation myths, culture heroes and tribal totems, and ways of using art to record them. ... Despite such diversity, art and religion are integral to all Native American lifeways. American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian artists create both ceremonial and utilitarian objects with prayer and as tribute to the abundance of the natural world. ... We include the art of large powerful states with leaders...

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These horrid conditions are what the Indians had to deal with. ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ... Jackson said he wanted this only for the good of the Indians. ... (Andrew Jackson's case for removal of the Indians). ... For the good of the Indians, Andrew Jackson humbly believed, but was it truly for the profit of himself and the country first before the good of the Indians (Andrew Jackson's case for removal of the Indians)....

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"The Trail of Tears" "The Trail of Tears" is oil on canvas painted by Jerome Tiger, a full blooded Creek/Seminole Indian. ... In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to free more eastern land for white settlement. This act allowed President Andrew Jackson to forcibly remove the eastern American Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi River. Within ten years, the United States government had uprooted more than 70,000 American Indians and moved them into Oklahoma Indian Territory, now the state of Oklahoma. ... The life of Jerome Tiger were cut short by a self inflicted gun...

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Jackson thought progress was inevitable and the Indian land was needed to bring civilization to those areas. ... The main Indians being persecuted were the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, and the Chickasaws. ... They were skilled in the art of white civilization. ... In May 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act. ... The Indian Removal Act forced all Indians tribes be moved west of the Mississippi River. ...

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Another big act that was passed was the Indian Removal Act. This called for the removal of all Indians east of the Mississippi border. ... Not only was writing changing, so was art. ... Another famous artist was George Caleb Bingham who became famous for taking landscape art a step forward and drawing what life was like for the people who lived in it. ... The U.S. has managed to go from a colony, to become a world power with its own style of art, architecture, government, and way of doing things. ...

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These interactions were highly valued by the Indians and were as valuable as commodities in their culture. ... The emigrants and Indians often shared moments of laughter and joking. ... The possibilities of massacres and abductions loomed over the wagon trains when in reality only 362 emigrants deaths and 426 Indian deaths occurred between 1840-1860 due to conflicts between Indians and Americans (183). ... Native Americans were portrayed constantly as savages in newspapers, art, literature and rumor mills for a full two hundred years prior to the start of the Western migration (144). ... Ther...

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African Americans migrated throughout the United States into the Indian Territories, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, the Rockies and some came as far West as California. ... Both Indians and the whites did not want to see a state that was considered a "Negro State", though an all black town was formed in 1891 in Langston, Oklahoma. ... The African Americans brought with them to these states many of their African cultures though art, dance, music and life African heritage, which are seen today in many areas of the United States. ...

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An interesting tidbit that one can pick up from the book is a description of the lost art of psalmody. ... Indeed, the Indians he depicted have no real-life parallel. ... So far as we can tell, Cooper had little personal contact with Indians. ... The description of Indian atrocities is mostly based on the Heckewelder description of their enemies, the Iroquois. It is most simply that Cooper's Indians are unrealistic. ...

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Like the Indians, we still today don't really recognize them for who they are, we just seem to shove them to the side and forget about them. Today in time you never hear about the Indians accomplishments, it seems as if we just take their land over and never talk about them again. ... Limerick points out that we don't need to know the little facts about the "white-Indian wars", we need to know the big facts to resolve anything. Limerick explains this as she quotes, They are tales from hell because they are stories so loaded with tiresome detail and pointless plot twists tha...

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Art critic Henry McBride noted, "Mona Lisa got but one portrait of herself worth talking about, O'Keeffe got a hundred....Everybody knew the name. ... After graduating from college, O'Keeffe set out to the southwest taking up jobs as an art teacher in different schools and universities. ... O'Keeffe was the only woman of her generation to have made a successful career out of art. ... She once said, "When I think of death I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore, unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone." ...

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The Hunter's Return was specially made for New York art collector George Austen, and the painting was displayed only once between its creation and its rediscovery a century and a half later. ... Progress is definitely one of his most famous and fascinating works of art, and was created at a time where the Hudson River artists decided to represent the most spectacular locations, the most amazing heights and panoramas in order to symbolize the glory and power of American landscapes . ... It definitely makes sense, particularly because George Inness himself qualified his paintings by the ter...

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The Island of Puerto Rico is one of the Caribbeans most exctic island. Puerto Rico has a rich culture whose origins can be traced back to the Tiano Indians, Spanish and West African roots. Puerto Ricans are very proud people. They use soulful music and exotic drinks to express their love towar...

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Having been portrayed in literary criticism as a giant fish, a grotesque monster, an American Indian, an African slave, his incarnation changes from "a savage and a deformed slave" to the "quintessential colonial victim". ... They pointed out, like Indians, Caliban initially viewed the newcomers as god and was friendly to them, but repaid with abuse; he originally owned the land but was soon dispossessed. ... Caliban was no longer just an American Indian, he also became the reflections of the African slave and the European wild man; or the blend if several American Indian types. ... Caliban, t...

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There are also stories about other Indian tribes who had encountered Bigfoot. ... Some tribes even made art of Bigfoot. ... These giants (12 to 15 feet tall cannibals) were said to attack Indian villages and take the inhabitants for food. The Paiute Indians have history with these giants that they called the Si Te Cah (Paulides). ... He realized that it must have been the beast the Indian tribes were talking about (Parkash). ...

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" I recalled when I first watched this film; it was shortly after I presented our Institute's mission with the All Indian Pueblo Council Governors and Tribal leadership. ... Ancestral objects and articles are not "art," but are embodied by the breath of life from the person who utilized the object or article in the performance of a dance or ceremony. ... Fortunately for Indigenous People, the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA), and the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act can assist in the protection of our traditional, cultural, and sacred sit...

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Indian tradition claimed that mammoths were carnivores, and that some still existed in the Northern parts of America. ... "As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might shew that America, though but a child of yesterday, has already given hopeful proofs of genius, as well of the noble kinds, which arouse the best feelings of man, which call him into action, which substantiate his freedom and conduct him to happiness, as of the subordinate, which serve to amuse him only."...

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African American females are unique human beings. Like other women, they are burdened with the problems of being women in a male-dominated society that does not fully value the feminine perspective. Unlike other women, they are also faced with issues resulting from long-standing negative, stereotypi...

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These new populations are going to be influenced by the European way of thinking, life, and basically look towards Europe for the next fashion statement is it in art or even everyday life style. ... Being Spanish made you the best of all races, but what if your were an Indian, or black how did that affect their population. ...

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The Insular Cases suggested a willingness to accord considerable impact to the fact of racial difference: "It is obvious in the annexation of outlying and distant possessions grave questions will arise out of differences of race, habits, laws, and customs of the people, and from differences of soil, climate and production, which may require action on the part of Congress that would be quite unnecessary in the annexation of contiguous territory inhabited only by the people of the same race, or by scattered bodies of native Indians." ... Study of the Chamorro culture, including language, tra...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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