And in spite of disparities among regions, the majority of the Native Americans believed in the active roles of both good and evil spirits. Amid the good spirits are mythical such as "thunderbirds, as well as mountains, rivers, minerals, flint, and arrowheads." ... Then she told them to go settle on the earth. When they came to the earth, they found it covered with water. ... It was very apparent that they loved the earth and that played a key role in terms of creation and an afterlife....

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There was a connection to the earth that the Native Americans felt. ... An Indian Proverb states "treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." We need to treat the Earth how we want the Earth to treat us. ... It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. ...

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The Native Americans value women and see them as being an extension of mother earth and Mother Nature. ... The one thing that they are supposed to be is a good wife and mother. ... Unlike many other cultures women are cherishes and seen as beautiful objects connected with mother earth, a very important part of existence. ... They believe that women are one with Mother Earth and cherish the fact that women have that privilege. ... All cultures have different aspects whether good or bad that make up their traditions and gender roles and no one is to say which is right are wrong. ...

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In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. ... He punishes the evil and rewards the good. ... The creation myth is more on the gradual changes or improvements on the earth. ... The middle disc, like the vertical axis, represents humanity, for in joining sky and earth. ... Ronald Reagan's Indian policy' was not a very good one, he tried assimilate the Indians. ...

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The relationship between learning and transformation in the Native oral tradition was used as a tool to control or survive, to teach one how to be a good person, and to teach one how to live a specific spiritual life. ... The stories that teach one how to live a good life are quite abundant. ... Stories that teach a person how to live a specific spiritual life show a person how to live in harmony with the earth and those around them. ...

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The jungle is a place where the "earth [seems] unearthly" (Conrad, 105), where it is teeming with life, and reeking of death all at the same time. ... Perhaps these exaggerated perfections serve to magnify the contrast between the "civilized good" and the "native, primitive evil". ... On a superficial level, darkness is most closely associated in these works with killing and other behavior that "civilized good" people consider inhuman. ...

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Meaning that the founding fathers saw the British as a good nation but yet the U.S. had to be better. ... Thanks to the life styles of these people the modern world enjoys and uses to its best benefits our earth. ...

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They acknowledged the power of Mother Earth and the mutual obligation between hunters and hunted as coequals. ... Let's have no blankets to sit on, but feel the ground with our bodies, the earth, and the yielding shrubs. ... Now even though Sanchez killed an animal of the environment he goes on to say, "It was good to destroy rattlers that came to live near mean. ...

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Respect for the earth was also something highly practiced by the Native people, giving back to the land every time they took something from it. They made sure to use every part of a hunted animal for either food or clothing and took very good care of the land by only taking what they needed when it came to gathering food for their families. ... At the first, this may have sounded like a good idea; Indians would have their own land to live a traditional lifestyle and be able to use it however they pleased. ...

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As Josiah Strong states in Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, "The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken Then the world will enter upon a new stage of its history- simply put this means once established, as the United States was, one must reach further to gain more ground. ... Roosevelt also says we will be good neighbors as long as you comply with the United States, we are superior although we do not feel a need to conquer. ... " Much as we abhor the war of "criminal aggression" in the Philippines, greatly as we regret that the bloo...

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It seems that when Cortes is describing the Native Americans in his letter to King Charles I of Spain he almost sounds disgusted, like they are scum of the earth. ... Cortes thought nothing good of the Natives he thought their beliefs were wrong. ... After reading chapter one, Wheeler, does a good job depicting the separate events that took place. ...

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Upon the death of the Chief Priest, his temple would be destroyed and another layer of earth would be added for his successor. ... The chief associates their reputation with naturally occurring events such as good weather or successful harvest. Ceremonies are aimed at creating the belief that the good fortune of successful harvest and nice weather is due to the actions of the chief and his relationship with the supernatural. ...

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They would pick it until they had no more energy in their bodies and at the end of the day, the people that watched over them to make sure they were doing a good job, would cheat them out of what they worked so hard to get. ... This world is big, we should try to share it, live in harmony with our earth and with our people. ...

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But the loving relationships he builds with his grandparents, his friend Willow John, and Mother Earth kept him smiling. ... He learns about the beauty and importance of Mother Nature and how to work the land "including the ancient secrets on how to obtain the best results for a good crop. ...

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The oppression of the Native religion serves as a predominant theme as King satirizes Christianities book of Genesis, with the anecdote of the creation of the earth and Adam and Eve. ... Who floats around for a long time, and finally "winds up on a beach in Florida and pretty soon some soldiers with flowers in their hair come along and arrest her. . .Good grief, . . another Indian. ...

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Waterlily is a magnificent story that teaches us how to respect one another and all of the life on earth. ... "); 6) Proposal to the slayer; and 7) Outcome ("...there is no more powerful agent for ensuring good will and smothering the flame of hate...

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In this paper are two views from the opposing sides, both arguing from their good thoughts to their bad. ... On the contrary, stated Jefferson, the Indian "meets death with more deliberation" than any other race on earth; "his friendships are strong and faithful to the uttermost extremity." ...

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Feelings Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a full account on the annihilation of the American Indian from the 1860's to the 1890's. I like the book for its information but I did not enjoy reading it. I appreciated the story from the perspective of the American Indian. From reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee I learned things that cannot and will not tell you in the history books. Dee Brown tells the story of torture and atrocity not well told in American history. ...

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