Native Americans not only lived in the Western Hemisphere but also North America. ... Another big part of Native American's society was their kinship. ... Kinship was the basis for armed conflict, yet the amount of warfare remained very low in North America. Men and women both played parts in a Native American tribe. ... Therefore, Native American clans were different than the European's views on many matters. ...

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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. ... But the questions that still remains, how did early Indians arrive on the North America continent. ... But the questions that still remains, how did early Indians arrive on the North America continent. ... Disease has been the number one killer of the North American Indians from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. ... As a result of trade the North American Indians ag...

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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. ... Although few histories of the European settlements in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have acknowledged it, women played a key role in the development of the North American colonies. ... In much of eastern North America, women had been the agriculturalists, responsible for planting and tending crops. ...

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From the discovery of the New World to the developing colonies in North America, the newcomers and the indigenous people benefitted each other by their cultural traditions, but were also weakened by the development of wars, diseases, and political conflicts. ... When the first European item was traded with an Indian's, word of the never before seen item quickly spread throughout North America, and most Indian's wanted these "impressive new technologies", (Calloway). ... Although there was much influence into the Indians' and Europeans' lives, many Europeans began...

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Throughout North America the tribes and cultures of Native Americans varied according to their geographical location. ... The three main cultures that emigrated from Europe to North America were the Spanish, English colonists, and the French. ... Spain began its settlement of North America with St. ... By the 1580s, upwards of 20,000 Europeans traveled back and forth from North America on a annual basis. ... In 1665 France made an effort to expand their control in North America. ...

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Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. When the Europeans came here, there were more than 10 million Indians populating North America and they had been living here for quite some time. ... So, when the Europeans started to arrive in the 16th- and 17th-century they were met by Native Americans, and enthusiastically so. ... They believed that the Indian's rightful land belonged to the Queen, and ignored the fact that the Natives had initially lived in North America for thousands of y...

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Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... On the contrast of the market revolution in the North, however, white planters in southern colonies were still relying heavily on their profitable "King Cotton"" and thus relying on slavery, making no responses to social changes at all. ... Though theoretically, things were better in the North because of industrialization and accordingly lack of slavery, the way that society treated African Americans were still far from equal. ... It turned out that t...

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Native Americans, as a race, have suffered from the very beginning of contact with the English colonists. They once constituted 100 percent of the population in North America, whereas today they represent 2 percent of the population. ... This paper will give evidence that genocide was committed against the Native Americans by the English colonists. ... Disease accounted for most of the deaths of the Native Americans. ... To conclude, I firmly believe, based on statistical proof and actions by the colonists, that genocide was committed against the Native Americans by the British North Amer...

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Indian tribes existed as sovereign governments long before European settlers arrived in North America. ... European colonialism uprooted and almost completely destroyed the North American indigenous population. ... (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. ... General George Crook commander of the Indian wars of the pacific north west and commonly known as America best Indian fighter recognized gre...

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African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... In the North where slavery was increasingly marginal and looked down upon, it was not very important and serious as it was in the South. According to American Slavery, Kolchin states; "in the North, slaves were few and slaveholdings were typically tiny. ... During the eighteenth century slavery in the North became increasingly less necessary and industrialization became a lot more important to the North. ... The South needed slavery in order to function and ...

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The Spanish-American War and the Mexican-American War both also were differences in the two American expansions. ... The Manifest Destiny was looking to acquire New Territories throughout the Continent of North America. ... The New Manifest Destiny wanted to gain land outside of North America. ... Both wanted to help America grow, but in the 1840's there was only growth in the Continent of North America, while in the 1890's there was no growth in North America, but America only grew outside of North America by gaining territories and lands. The two wars, The Spanish-American War and ...

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It was hard to believe that the American West and East were part of the same country. ... 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 beginning of the 1830s, Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. ... At the same time, whites pressured Native Americans to assimilate. ...

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As America entered the 19th century, America's size grew immensely. ... So it was Missouri which began a slave state, which technically stopped the reverse of anti-slavery in the North considering that Missouri was along the same level of north as other northern states. This led to the North trying to stop the South from bringing Missouri into statehood. This would split the political factions into strictly North and South at the time. ... Then the Bank of America had become a problem. ...

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I will discuss conflict's role in the original settling of America, the conflict involved in the American Revolution, and finally the conflict that resulted in the civil war. ... Native Americans occupied the land in North America as far as 15,000-20,000 years ago, there were even bands of these people living there during the Ice Age. ... The American Indian Wars were the set of conflicts between the new American settlers and the Native American people from their initial arrival all the way until as late as 1890. ... In other circumstances the Native Americans actually aided the coloni...

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To get to where America is today they had to kill many Native Americans. ... Native Americans were in fact the first people to live in American. ... There was tension between the North and the South and one of them wanted to have an extra state so they would have more power. ... The government tried to make compromises like the Missouri Compromise to keep the North and South at peace. ... If the north and south did not have a huge dispute about slavery, the war might not have happened. ...

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America was fractured and each state was separated by ideals and ideologies. ... In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism 1776-1820. ... There was a lot of tension between the North and South states created by the differing opinions on the topic of slavery. The North wanted to promote a gradual emancipation program to abolish slavery in the southern states. ... In addition if the North still had the intention to continue with this emancipation of the slaves then the South would break off from the rest of the Union. ...

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When Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States in 1860, there were about 36 million people in America, most living east of the Mississippi River in "the North" and "the South." ... Over the last forty years of the nineteenth century, America truly became the "United States" with a vast east-west axis, rather than a narrow north-south one. Though Abraham Lincoln is forever identified with holding America together during our Civil War, he had an even bigger vision for America that we should honor him for. ... The promise of the American West was, for many, as great ...

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Of these groups, the people that fought hardest for rights were women, Native Americans, and African Americans, though women received a few basic rights, Native Americans were driven off of their land, and most African Americans were still abused as slaves. ... Another group greatly affected by the culture of the 1700's was the Native Americans. ... Unlike women, Native Americans only lost rights and freedoms. ... The last group greatly affected by a culture of white, male power was African Americans. ... In the North, free African Americans and a few choice servants were allowed to learn...

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This new concept influenced Americans to start believing they were the only race fit to live and govern the nation of the United States, and this created somewhat of racial discrimination between settlers, African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans. It was clear that Americans justified taking away Indian land, and they continuously pushed Native Americans westward in order to extend and expand United States boundaries. ... Sectionalism continued to slightly "overshadow " Manifest Destiny through American efforts in annexing Cuba, Nicaragua, and other parts of Central America. The North...

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"In Minnesota, Thousands of Native Americans Protest Redskins' Name." ... "Indians as Mascots for America's Fun and Games."  ... This article talks about how America fails to see how the Native Americans do not like being depicted as a mascot and the insensitivities that come with it. ... In this article Giago talks about the Spirit Lake Sioux tribe of North Dakota and how their support of the University of North Dakota is hurting them. ... American Indian, Begay who is vice president of the Native American journal Association is worried what the term "redskin " will become. ...

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Once spring was among the North it was time to move to the coastal areas. ... The men did most the work in the North for hunting purposes. ... They hunted and fished just the north, just the focus was more on their crops. ... The North had less opportunity then the South do to the restrictions they had on their seasons. ... The North and South worked hard and have influenced the way things are done in the places we live even today....

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The bearing of Spanish colonization is characterized mostly by the efforts of converting Native Americans into Christians and the impact, although not positive, of spreading disease to the people of the Americas. ... The impact of the English was enormous, from the settling of colonies in North America, to the development of North American slave trade, and the emergence of tobacco as a major crop, the achievements of the English are clear and distinct. ... Columbus and his men introduced horses to the Americas and in essence, Native American tribes began incorporating these animals to make t...

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I chose the exhibit showing details and paintings of the Native American time Periods. 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 reason the Native Americans discovered North America was because of the discovery of a land bridge that formed, connecting Siberia to Alaska. ... The land bridge was visible and walkable, and the Native Americans chased buffalo and wild life to North America because ...

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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. ... Native Americans had been occupying the country for at least 20,000 years, and had themselves evolved over time to the group which is known as the Mississippi Period (A.D. 900 – 1492) – the group which the European settlers would encounter upon their arrival to North America. ... At first, the attempts were complete failu...

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Sandpaintings or drypaintings are an essential part of Native American ceremonials. ... These colors are symbolic of directions, white with dawn and the east, blue with the midday sky and the south, yellow with the evening twilight and west, and black with the night and north. ...

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